The Economy of the Annual Meeting
By Bethany Hawkins, COO, AASLH If you just registered for the upcoming AASLH Annual Meeting in Kansas City to secure the early [...]
Coming Soon: Forgotten Fortunes
By Donovan Jacobs Does your state, county, city, or other region have a story about a historically important, valuable, or unusual object [...]
A Crisis of Faith: Interpreting Leonard Bernstein’s Music and Religion
Photos courtesy of Jessi Melcer. By Barbara Franco, independent scholar, museum consultant, and co-editor of Interpreting Religion at Museums and [...]
Creative Audience Engagement Techniques from Award Winners
If your organization is looking for creative ways to engage your audience, here are four Leadership in History Awards winning projects [...]
What You Can Do on Summer Vacation
Did you ever have to write the typical “What I Did on Summer Vacation” essay on the first day of [...]
Master Local Historian: AASLH Launches Historian Training Program for the Public
A photograph of the Tennessee State Library and Archives building taken on July 17, 1956, a few short years [...]
To Do Rightly: Congregations as Incubators of American Activism
Photo by Victor Manuel Ramos. Courtesy of Arch Street Meeting House. Last year, the Arch Street Friends Meeting [...]
Meet the Emerging History Professionals Committee
The AASLH Emerging History Professionals (EHP) Affinity Community supports, connects, and unites the newest generation of state and local history practitioners. To get in touch with [...]
Want to Improve Society? Take a Look Around the Office
Our work in the not-for-profit sector focuses on making society better. We strive to improve the lives of those in our communities. But how often [...]
14 AASLH Members Receive Over $1 Million in NEH Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced today that it will award $21.1 million in grants for 248 humanities projects. “NEH grants bring the humanities [...]
Curtains Without Borders Has Created a National Database of Historic Stage Scenery
Curtains Without Borders is a small non-profit organization that has been documenting and restoring historic stage scenery for almost 20 years. We've found 500 grand [...]
Leadership Matters at Every Level
I wasn’t the typical student in the most recent Leadership and Administration in History Organizations online course through AASLH. I’m not a director of a museum. [...]
Visitors Studies Association 2016 Conference Open for Registration
July 19-23, Hyatt Regency Boston With 14 in-depth workshops ranging from introductory statistics to data visualization and reporting, over 45 presentations of papers, roundtables, [...]