Ready and Rarin’ to Go Explore Women’s History in Austin!
Photograph of the march from Seneca Falls to the National Women’s Conference in Houston, 1977. Join us in Austin for [...]
#AASLH17 Sessions: Community Engagement and Teacher Professional Development
As we prepare for the 2017 Annual Meeting in Austin, the Educators and Interpreters Affinity Group Committee is trying an experiment. We’re giving presenters who are [...]
Out of Storage and into the Classroom: Enriching the Curriculum with a Campus Archive
Naomi Niemann (Class of 2019) shares her work digitizing and transcribing an unpublished manuscript by Edward Beecher, first president of Illinois [...]
StEPs Spotlight: Learn How the Fort Worth Aviation Museum is Building a Foundation for Growth
Exciting changes are happening at the 800+ organizations taking part in AASLH's Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations (StEPs). Our "StEPs [...]
Report on Recent Initiatives of the History Relevance Campaign
The National Archives hosted the second History Relevance Campaign (HRC) meeting with Washington D.C. area history organizations on Monday, October [...]
Cultural Competency: A Powerful Tool for Change
At the 2016 AASLH Annual Meeting, the Educators and Interpreters Committee hosted a session on cultural competency featuring staff from [...]
Welcome to Our House: How Visitor Experience Planning at Pittock Mansion Lead to Record Attendance
Visitors exploring Pittock Mansion’s 16,000 square feet. As many historic house museums across the country experience declining visitation, [...]
Rare Discovery Made at HistoryMiami’s Audubon Exhibition
AASLH Member Since 2010 Audubon dealer makes discovery upon visiting nationally acclaimed exhibition HistoryMiami is excited to announce a rare discovery that was made during [...]
Mayflower Passages: Conservation Treatment and Digitization of the Bradford Manuscript, 1630-1650
AASLH Member Since 1982 Mayflower Passages: Conservation Treatment and Digitization of William Bradford's ‘Of Plimouth Plantation,’ 1630-1650 NEDCC recently provided conservation treatment and digitization for one of [...]
Mount Vernon Releases New Animated Feature
AASLH Member Since 1984 Washington’s Winter Campaign Comes to Life in Mount Vernon’s Second Feature Animation MOUNT VERNON, VA – George Washington’s crossing of the [...]
Using Nomenclature 3.0: Cross-Indexing
New users of Nomenclature 3.0 sometimes wonder how to catalog objects that have multiple functions, or that can be named according to various characteristics. Which of [...]
Call for Posters 2015
This year the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) is holding our annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, on September 16-19. We are proud [...]
Make a Home for History in Congress
When we want to advocate at the national level for historical institutions and what our community does, it helps if our Congressional representatives are already [...]