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What You Can Learn from 7 Theme Fusion Success Stories
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New Lighting Brings Big Changes to Small Museum
By Kelli Thomerson, Roanoke Visitor Center and Museum, Roanoke, TX Some people may think a small museum is amateur, but at the [...]
Seven Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in August
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards [...]
AASLH 2020 Call for Proposals
By Omar Eaton-Martínez, 2020 AASLH Program Chair The American Association for State and Local History will present its 2020 Annual Meeting in [...]
Personal Encounters with the Tough Stuff of History
In the last few years, our field has begun to engage more intentionally with the stories and lives of enslaved [...]
NEH Grant Opportunity for Community Archives
Are you working on a project that might be eligible for support through a Common Heritage grant? NEH’s “Common Heritage” [...]
Intern Spotlight: Folklorist Anne Rappaport
Our spring intern is wrapping up her time with us at AASLH! Anne Rappaport has been working on continuing education [...]
Fifth Annual Slave Dwelling Project Conference Call for Proposals
Cabin c. 1830, Sotterley Plantation, Hollywood, Maryland. The fifth annual Slave Dwelling Project conference will be held at [...]
We Are at the Center of What It Means to Be Americans: A Letter from the AASLH Council Chair
Dear Members, AASLH is helping lead our local and national discussions about the importance of historic context, the value of content that can be documented, and [...]
Recognizing the Rainbow: The National Park Service’s Quest to Include LGBTQ Americans in Telling All Americans’ Stories
Tim Gill, founder of the Gill Foundation, holds up a copy of the 1200 page theme study at the launch party on October 11, [...]
Finding Eleanor Pack: Challenges and Methods in Researching Domestic Staff at Nemours
Kitchen at Nemours, undated. Nemours Estate Archive. Historic estates are living in a post-“Downton Abbey” world and visitors frequently ask about the domestic [...]
A Few Simple Tips for Public Historians Working with Confrontational Visitors
An interpreter at Mackinac State Historic Parks, Michigan. This article was originally posted on Exploring the Past and is re-posted here with permission from [...]
My 5 Favorite Props to Use in Programs
One thing that every interpreter has to do to be effective is to get and keep their audiences' attention. If no one is listening then [...]
Visitors and Originality in Historic House Museums: A Look at the Impact of Furnishing Plans
Library: Longfellow’s House – Washington Headquarters National Historic Site; By Daderot (Own work) [CC0] “Is everything original?” “Is this what the dining room [...]