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 [...]
Four Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in May
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 [...]
AASLH Announces Election Slate for Council and Leadership Nominating Committee
We are proud to announce the slate of candidates for four open spots on the AASLH Council, three Council officers, and two spots [...]
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). [...]
AASLH Flash Sale: 50% Off All Recorded Webinars and PDFs of Technical Leaflets, Technical Leaflet Bundles
Today through next Tuesday (April 18) get 50% off the 77 recorded webinars, 30 Technical Leaflet PDFs, and 23 Technical [...]
Ghost Tours: Marketing Hype or Spiritual Quest?
The 2016 Ghostbusters reboot begins with an actual ghost causing problems after a docent finishes a tour at a [...]
Relevancy on the Prairie: Lawrence Welk’s Childhood Home
The Welk Homestead State Historic Site, located near Strasburg, ND. Photo by Diane Rogness . The Welk Homestead [...]
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 [...]
When History Doesn’t Matter
I was recently thrown for a loop when a member of my team suggested that I present at an upcoming conference with the theme “When [...]
Spend the Night with History: The Making of the C&O Canal Quarters Program
Tucked along the C&O Canal (which runs through DC, MD, and WV) are over twenty stone structures that pay testament to the canal era, when [...]
Nomenclature 4.0 – Why the change from “Classification” to “Class”?
New Nomenclature 4.0 users that are familiar with Revised Nomenclature or Nomenclature 3.0 will notice a change in the naming of the hierarchical levels within the [...]
Six Tips for A Successful AASLH Award Nomination
AASLH likes to give awards. The awards committee members who review and vote on nominations love to vote yes and award good history. That said, [...]
Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill Receives $5.1 Million Lilly Endowment Grant
HARRODSBURG, Ky. (January 12, 2016)—Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill (member of AASLH since 2002) announces that Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded the organization a $5.1 [...]