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The Value of Small Museum Experience, or Why I Don’t Have a “Better” Job
By Aimee E. Newell, Ph.D., Executive Director, Luzerne County Historical Society, Wilkes Barre, PA I met someone a couple of months ago who, [...]
Educators and Interpreters Gearing Up for the Annual Meeting
By Megan Wood, Director of Museum and Library Services, Ohio History Connection and Chair, Educators and Interpreters Committee At the Annual Meeting this [...]
“It’s Never Been This Hot” – Addressing Climate Change
On July 31, AASLH joined We Are Still In (WASI), a national effort to mobilize state and local organizations “to reduce emissions [...]
Why We Give: Members Share Why They Donate to AASLH
To sustain the fabric of culture, inclusion, memory, and conversation in the United States, it is more important than ever [...]
Including Marginalized Voices and Addressing Controversial Topics: Seven Award-Winning Ideas
Slavery and Freedom in Savannah Interpreting the history of marginalized peoples and addressing controversial topics can be intimidating. [...]
State Histories: Big Questions in Small Places
For many of us, the love of history began with the desire to better understand where we as individuals, or [...]
What the Federal Budget Means for History Organizations
On May 4, Congress approved a $1.1 trillion omnibus appropriations bill that will fund the federal government for the rest of fiscal [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]