Five 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 program designed specifically [...]
33 AASLH Members Receive Over $6 Million in NEH Grants
This month, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $43.1 million in grants for 218 humanities projects. “From nationally [...]
FSA Tips: Visitor Services Beyond the Front Desk
By Jeannette Rooney, Assistant Director, Local History Services, Indiana Historical Society When we think of visitor services, we often imagine that it's all [...]
Call for Articles: Emerging History Professional Takeover of History News Magazine
Emerging History Professionals are taking over the Winter 2018 issue of AASLH’s History News magazine! The issue will be guest [...]
Service in Cultural Heritage
Elizabeth Cruzado Carranza (center) with students from the Maria Parado de Bellido Nº 88104 school in Nivín, Peru. [...]
Got Icelandic? This Project is Cataloging Icelandic Immigrant Manuscripts at U.S. Historical Organizations
During the late 19th Century and early 20th Century, thousands of Icelanders immigrated to North America. The majority settled in Canada—mostly [...]
Three Ways History Organizations Can Collect and Interpret Memorials
Dear Boston: Messages from the Marathon Memorial When faced with tragedies, communities may find healing in creating memorials. [...]
AASLH Annual Meeting: Call for Posters 2016
This year the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) is holding our annual meeting in partnership with the Michigan Museums Association in Detroit, [...]
8 Ways to Keep History Relevant
We have all talked about it. Children are not learning enough about history in schools. Leaders rarely look at history to make informed decisions. With [...]
Historical Markers as an Arts Project?
When I took a call from Dr. Holly Goldstein, a local art history professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in the [...]
Speakers Announced for the AASLH/MMA 2016 Annual Meeting
AASLH is pleased to announce our featured speakers for the our 2016 Annual Meeting, which will be held in partnership with the Michigan Museums Association. [...]
Does Your Historic House Need Reinventing?
AASLH is helping historic sites around the US look at how they engage with their communities and their sustainability and in a one-day symposium, Reinventing [...]
Ask FSA: What is Field Services?
I recently asked a few people what they thought the phrase "field services" meant. Those who knew that I work in a Local History [...]