AASLH Announces 2018 Leadership in History Award Winners
AASLH is proud to announce the winners of the 73rd annual Leadership in History Awards, the most prestigious recognition for achievement in [...]
African-American Female Athletes Before Integration: Ways To Chronicle Their History Before It’s Too Late
By Evin Demirel When Alma Byrd won an Arkansas state basketball title in 1939, she had never played on a wood court [...]
The Personal is Professional: Reckoning with Slavers in the Family
By Sarah Jencks, Director of Education and Interpretation, Ford's Theatre My parents are in their seventies, and they still live in the [...]
When Behind the Scenes IS the Exhibit: Lessons from History Lab at the Indiana Historical Society
This article was originally posted on Museums + Social Media. It is reposted here with the author's permission. As I [...]
Truth-Telling and Religious History: How Religious Historians Can Foster Reconciliation in a Divided Society
Regent University campus on the day of the rally. In late October 2016 I attended the 30th Biennial [...]
StEPs Spotlight: Grassmere Historic Farm Finding its Way Within a Larger Organization
Exciting changes are happening at the 800+ organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History [...]
Women Who Mentor: Amy Thibodeau, Writer, Editor, and Content Strategist
Women engineers at Bletchley Park working on Colossus, the codebreaking computer. Collection of the National Archives (United Kingdom). [...]
3 AASLH Members Accepted into AAM’s Small Museums Accreditation Academy
The American Alliance of Museums just announced the ten museums chosen to participate in the first session of the Small Museums Accreditation Academy. We were [...]
Welcome New AASLH Members (Jan. 2016)
AASLH is pleased to welcome all the individuals and institutions who became members in January. We are so glad you chose to make AASLH your [...]
Small Museums Scholarships Available for 2016 AASLH Annual Meeting & Online Conference
Small Museums Scholarships 2016 AASLH Annual Meeting and Online Conference Detroit, Michigan - September 14-17 DEADLINE: 10 June 2016 The American Association for State and [...]
New Museum Dedicated to “Unsung Heroes” to Open in Kansas in May 2016
When you studied history in school, did you ever wonder if there were individuals who had taken extraordinary actions but didn’t make it into textbooks [...]
Art & Tractors: Creating an Environment of Excellence
Deere & Company is fortunate to have a robust art collection. Though the company has owned some art for most of its history, William Hewitt, [...]
Latest Addition to Brooklyn Historical Society’s Digital Curriculum Investigates Dutch “Breukelen”
The Brooklyn Historical Society (AASLH member since 1999) recently announced the release of Dutch Breukelen: Where Brooklyn Began, the latest publication in BHS’s growing digital curriculum library. Designed [...]