Building Relationships in a Small Community
When I heard the AASLH Annual Meeting was going to be in Austin, Texas in September, I knew I had to figure [...]
StEPs Spotlight: Cleveland Grays Armory Museum
By Aja Bain, AASLH, and Mary Beth Rauzi and Mary Manning, Cleveland Grays Armory Museum Exciting changes are happening at the 960 [...]
Taking History into Our Own Hand(icraft)s: Interpreting a Lost Douglass Site in Rochester
By Hinda Mandell, Associate Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology Sometimes a bit of thread and yarn can offer a temporary fix [...]
Best of 2016: Our Top 10 Posts This Year
As 2016 comes to a close, we’re looking back at all the great articles posted on the AASLH blogs this [...]
Digital History Company Plans to Create Interactive Digital Version of the Library from American Philosophy: A Love Story
One of the year’s best books is a beautifully written story about books – specifically, a lost collection of priceless [...]
Hear, Here: Voices of Downtown La Crosse
Hear, Here: Voices of Downtown La Crosse is a location-based mobile phone documentary project about downtown La Crosse that uses street-level [...]
A Walk in 1875 St. Louis
It all started with a map. Pictorial St. Louis, a perspective map that showed every street, building, park, and even [...]
The Pleasant Hill Shakers and the Power of Possibility
The legacy of the Pleasant Hill Shaker community has often been assessed exclusively through their material culture. However, each physical item is inseparable from the [...]
AASLH Members Receive More Than $1 Million in Grants from NEH and IMLS
This summer, more than thirty AASLH member institutions were awarded prestigious grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Institute for Museum [...]
Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts
In its deepest forms, historical thinking is neither a natural process nor something that springs automatically from psychological development. Its achievement goes against the grain [...]
Coalition to Advance Learning Focus Group
You’re Invited! A focus group on Continuing Education/Professional Development needs across the Archives, Library, and Museum communities will be held at the AASLH Annual Meeting [...]
Hang Out With the Ladies at the AASLH Annual Meeting
The AASLH Women’s History Affinity Group is very excited to make its first public appearance at the 2015 Annual Meeting in Louisville. Herp’s a sneak peak [...]
Roll Out the Bourbon Barrel
If you are coming to Louisville for the 2015 Annual Meeting, consider taking one of the special tours offered that give you the true Kentucky [...]