New Webinar Series: History Check-Ins
When you spend your days on practical activities that help your institution thrive, it can be overwhelming to tackle an unfamiliar topic. [...]
Water Has a Memory: The Impact of Sea Level Rise on the Historical Resources of Strawbery Banke Museum
Strawbery Banke Museum, located four hundred feet from the banks of the Piscataqua River in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is a nine-acre [...]
AASLH Visited 38 National Park Sites in 2017
Glacier National Park in Montana Recently, the National Park Service announced that in 2017, they had a total of 330,882,751 [...]
4 Ways Historic House Museums Can Create More Meaningful Visitor Experiences
The Ropes Mansion Every year, AASLH receives over 100 nominations for our Leadership in History Awards, which recognize organizations doing [...]
Baby Boom II: Motherhood and Museums One Year Later
To my astonishment, Baby Boom: Motherhood and Museums has consistently been one of the most popular AASLH blog posts since [...]
Networking for Emerging History Professionals
Talking to other history professionals at the 2015 AASLH Annual Meeting Although museum/history professionals may not face the [...]
5 Citizen History Projects You Should Know About (Part 1)
With the ubiquity of the internet, crowdsourcing help, resources, and artifacts has been an effective way for libraries, museums, institutes, [...]
Community Based Learning Program
Staff members at the State Historical Museum of Iowa collaborated with two exceptional Des Moines Public Schools teachers, Josalynn Agnew (Monroe Elementary School) and Michele [...]
Riding Through History
Riding Through History is a 3,000 square foot exhibit on the history of recreational bicycling in Iowa. The exhibit showcases how bicycling became a popular [...]
Abercorn Archaeology: African American History in the Shadow of the Oak
Proposed plans to widen a state road and construct new interchanges near Savannah in Chatham County, Georgia led to the discovery and study of a [...]
Classifying and Naming Digital Objects with Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature 4.0 can be used to catalog digital objects. It allows museums to record information about the format (e.g., “Document, Digital”) for certain objects in the [...]
Middle Tennessee Museums See Success with StEPs
AASLH received a grant from the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee in the fall of 2011 to create a StEPs (Standards and Excellence Program for [...]
AASLH Invites Nominations for 2016 Leadership in History Awards Program
NASHVILLE, TN—December 2015 The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) invites nominations for the 2016 Leadership in History Awards. Now in its 69th [...]