2018 Goal: Become a Small Museum Pro!
Are you a volunteer working in a small local museum? Are you a recent graduate whose degree did not fully prepare you [...]
Call for Papers: Interpreting Labor History at Museums and Historic Sites
Interest in and support for labor unions is on the rise in the United States, especially among millennials. Younger Americans tend to view [...]
Managing Interpreters: Presentations as Road Maps
Meandering. Wandering aimlessly. Lost. Confused. Does this describe your worst road trip? Maybe it describes the conversations between the public and your [...]
My Grandfather’s Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation
In My Grandfather’s Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation, historian Brenda Child blends a historical study [...]
Custom House: Restoring a St. Paul Landmark in Lowertown
In November 2015, the Ramsey County Historical Society published Custom House: Restoring a St. Paul Landmark in Lowertown by James [...]
2016 Kammen Award
Named in honor of the late Michael Kammen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Cornell University’s Newton C. Farr Professor of American [...]
Minnesota Dugout Canoe Project
“As the land of more than 10,000 lakes; home to the headwaters of the Mississippi River; and host to nearly [...]
Meet a Member: Ethan Morris
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 [...]
Meet a Member: Detroit Historical Society
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 [...]
Idaho State Historical Society in the 1940s
2015 marks AASLH's 75th Anniversary Year. For the occasion, AASLH has created a blog series for members to share their unique history and memories. Contributions [...]
Call For AASLH Leadership Nominations
AASLH is entering a new era. We are refocusing our programs and services to better serve you, our constituency. We invite our members to consider [...]
The SCARY Truth Facing Historic Houses
The ghost of Christmas Yet to Be brings Scrooge all of the bad news in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. Well, today that’s me! In 2008, the [...]
I Remember When Part 10
Fun with “C:\>” In the olden days (before Bill Gates introduced the Windows operating system and became a multi-billionaire), it was generally necessary to provide [...]