Relevancy, Fun, Engagement: Focusing on Visitors at the Harriet Beecher Stowe House
Locust Grove in Louisville, Kentucky What do Locust Grove in Louisville, Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, and the Harriet Beecher [...]
Museum Education Roundtable Announces 2017 Award Winners
The Museum Education Roundtable is pleased and proud to announce the 2017 recipients of its inaugural Awards for Writing Excellence and Editorial [...]
Small but Mighty: Empowering You to Make Over Your Exhibit
By Crystal Wimer, Executive Director, Harrison County WV Historical Society I want to begin this blog by thanking AASLH for awarding me [...]
AASLH Announces a New Logo Based on the Values of Community, Inclusion, and Creativity
AASLH is excited to introduce a new logo that symbolizes a forward focus while remaining rooted in both the past [...]
14 New Museum and Public History Books from AASLH
The AASLH Series at Rowman and Littlefield Publishers is off to a great start. It's only March, and already in [...]
5 Citizen History Projects You Should Know About (Part 2)
Libraries, museums, and other academically oriented non-profits often collaborate with each other on research efforts. Recently, they are reaching out [...]
Call for Posters: 2017 AASLH Annual Meeting
AASLH has partnered with the National Council on Public History to invite proposals for an NCPH‐sponsored Poster Session at the [...]
Using the Holocaust Museum’s Citizen History Project to Engage Your Visitors
Our colleagues at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum have asked AASLH’s help in spreading the word about their remarkable history crowd-sourcing project History Unfolded: U.S. [...]
History Unfolded: US Holocaust Memorial Museum Launches Citizen History Project
How much did Americans know about the Holocaust when it was happening? How did they respond? The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum needs your help. It [...]
Meet a Member: Sewall-Belmont House & Museum
We are excited to launch a new biweekly blog series called “Meet a Member.” AASLH has 5,500 fascinating members working hard for the field of [...]
Jan 15 is Deadline for Enrollment in Next Wave of Visitors Count! Research
Visitors Count! is now accepting enrollments for the next wave of research. The deadline is January 15, 2016. Visitors Count! is AASLH’s visitor research program [...]
History Wins! Obama Signs ESSA: This Means New Funding for K-12 History & Civics
Yesterday morning, December 10, President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) into law. Thank you to all the AASLH members who heeded the [...]
Floyd Co. Hist. Soc. in VA Receives Grant for Elementary Education Program
The Floyd County Historical Society (AASLH member since 2009) has been awarded a grant by the Larry Woodrow Vest Fund of Foundation For Roanoke Valley to [...]