In Memoriam: Laura Hockaday
In Kansas City, people of color got little recognition for their civic contributions until Laura Hockaday saw an opportunity and acted. As [...]
Field Services Alliance Tips: Emergency Preparedness
The Problem: Cultural institutions often lack the ability to develop comprehensive emergency preparedness and response measures, which has put many of the [...]
U.S. 250, Career Diversity, and Other Takeaways from the AHA Annual Meeting
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the American Historical Association’s annual meeting as thousands of historians braved the bitterly cold [...]
Over There: Missouri & the Great War
Over There: Missouri & the Great War is a statewide, collaborative digitization initiative to document Missouri’s World War I history. [...]
Speak Up for the NEH + More Ways to Advocate for History and Museums (Weekly Dispatch)
The new Congress and new White House have begun signaling dramatic cuts they intend for federal agencies, programs, and policies [...]
New AASLH Member Benefit: Special Deal on HistoryIT Services
We are pleased to announce a new benefit for AASLH Institutional Members. Members are now able to receive, at a [...]
Believing in Community Outreach: A Lesson in Shared Authority
Second Saturday Program Audience at the York County History Center My organization recently drafted a new strategic plan [...]
38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan
This project brought an 1841 whaleship and accompanying outdoor exhibit to historic New England ports to raise awareness of maritime heritage and issues of ocean [...]
SubUrbanisms: Casino Company Town/ China Town
SubUrbanisms documents the development of a suburban Chinatown surrounding the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut and how workers, many recent immigrants, have transplanted their cultural [...]
Castle on the Cove: the Connecticut State Prison and Wethersfield
Castle on the Cove explores the Connecticut State Prison while it operated in Wethersfield between 1827 and 1963 and its significant influence on the town [...]
RACE Project at History Colorado
On September 20, 2014, the History Colorado Center brought the traveling exhibit RACE: Are We So Different? to Denver for three months. The exhibit was [...]
Voices of Wartime: Telluride During World War II
Voices of Wartime explored how a global conflict affected the everyday lives of those living in the small, isolated mining community of Telluride, Colorado. The [...]
Scandal! Vice, Crime, and Morality in Montréal
Based on extensive documentary research and a wide‐ranging collection of personal accounts from Montrealers from the era along with comments by contemporary specialists, Scandal! Vice, [...]