StEPs Spotlight: Our Latest Gold Graduate, the Greeneville Greene County History Museum
Exciting changes are happening at the more than 1,000 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History [...]
Evaluate to Advocate: Gathering Data to Tell Your Story
Read parts one and two of the advocacy series. By Sean Blinn, Programming Director, Heritage Trail Association, Bridgewater, NJ In previous posts about [...]
Shapell Roster Project Seeks Jewish Civil War Sources and Descendants
By Eliza Kolander, Outreach Specialist, Shapell Manuscript Foundation What began as an endeavor to corroborate a long-antiquated list of Jews who served [...]
Votes for Women, Y’all: Celebrating the Women’s Suffrage Centennial in Arkansas and Beyond
Inaugural Suffrage Sprint & Stroll on the steps of the State Capitol in Little Rock, August 26, 2017. [...]
All Hands on Deck: Mobilizing Communities to Preserve World War II History
Home Front Project interns interviewing Elinor Otto,one of the longest-working Rosie the Riveters. When World War II [...]
Keeping History Above Water: Conference on Heritage Sites and Rising Waters
It was raining, and flooded, in historic Annapolis, Maryland, when 265 of us gathered for the second Keeping History Above [...]
Call for Papers: Craft as Political Activism in a Nation Divided
Gay “Be-In” at the Sheep Meadow in Central Park at the end of the first NYC Pride March, June [...]
Schedule Changes for AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting
Please note the following changes in the upcoming AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting schedule. Sessions Cancelled The Wednesday workshops, Easy to Read: A Guide to Transcribing Historical [...]
Grant-Sponsored Training in Scientific Imaging Technologies for History and Museum Professionals
Here's an opportunity for historians, archivists, and museum professionals to receive grant-sponsored training in scientific imaging technologies: Who is CHI? Cultural Heritage Imaging (CHI) is [...]
Resources for Heritage Institutions Affected by Flooding in Louisiana
AASLH is reaching out to our constituents in the recent flood affected areas in Louisiana. As a member of the Heritage Emergency National Taskforce, AASLH [...]
How to Choose an Object Name for Cataloging an Abstract of Title
Lynne Sylvester of the Winter Garden Heritage Foundation in Florida has posed this question: I have to catalog an Abstract of Title and do not know what [...]
Cemeteries: The Eternal Classroom
When I read Michele M. Celani’s blog post about the effectiveness of historical markers in the classroom I thought “oh I know a bunch of [...]
Getting Schooled in History Relevance by Hamilton
By Bethany Hawkins, AASLH I am really late to the party. I just listened to the Hamilton: An American Musical for the first time [...]