#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Naomi Niemann (Class of 2019) shares her work digitizing and transcribing an unpublished manuscript by Edward Beecher, first president of Illinois [...]
AASLH Statement on Charlottesville
Rotunda at University of Virginia, Charlottesville. The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) abhors not only the violence [...]
Grant Opportunity: Civic Engagement Through Literature with the NEA Big Read
Have you heard of the NEA Big Read? The National Endowment for the Arts recently released the application guidelines for [...]
AASLH and NEMA Partner to Strengthen History Organizations in New England
Organizations in the New England region, especially all-volunteer ones, can save money and put their organization on a path to [...]
History, Memory, and Disability Rights: Creating Inclusive Public Humanities Programs
“History, Memory, and Disability Rights: Creating Inclusive Public Humanities Programs,” a one-day public humanities conference and workshops that features current [...]
Presidential Medal Given to Students Opposed to Slavery Program at President Lincoln’s Cottage
Students Opposing Slavery (SOS), a youth education program of President Lincoln’s Cottage, was awarded the Presidential Award of Extraordinary Efforts [...]
New Leadership in Place at AASLH
May 1, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY NEW LEADERSHIP IN PLACE John Dichtl Assumes New Post as President/CEO Nashville, [...]
Sounds of Silence
Grady Mcferrin, The Driveway Moment, 2009 What are the sounds of your historic house museum? I thought about this the other day as [...]
Advice for the Next USPS Historian
Greetings! My name is Jenny Lynch, and I'm the historian of the United States Postal Service. I worked in the USPS Historian's Office for twenty [...]
Save the Date for the 2015 AASLH Annual Meeting
Save the Date! 2015 AASLH Annual Meeting Louisville, Kentucky September 16-19 Registration Opens by June 1 Nothing can replace the opportunities that arise when you [...]
“We” vs. “Them”
I was recently reading an article from Lapham's Quarterly, "They," that discusses the political and psychological aspects of how people group themselves and then react [...]
Making the Most of Collections Queries
One of the newer (and upward trending) tasks I’ve acquired is the use of collections through social media. Queries are ranging from weather, throwbacks of [...]