41 AASLH Members Receive Over $9 Million in NEH Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $39.3 million in grants for 245 humanities projects and programs this summer. [...]
NARA Wants You to Contribute Local WWI Content
The recently completed US National Archives’ (NARA) Remembering WWI tablet app invites teachers and institutions to engage with NARA’s extensive collection of [...]
Preserving Neighborhood History in a Growing City
Photo by Susie Trexler. Demolition of historic buildings and the construction of new, sleek, modern ones is a trend in [...]
Nine Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in September
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program [...]
Advocacy Alert: IMLS Reauthorization Introduced in Congress
IMLS Reauthorization Introduced in Congress Contact Your Senators Today Last week, Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) introduced S. 3391, the Museum [...]
Change and Grow or Shut Your Doors: A Volunteer-Run Museum’s Conference Takeaway
Kathy McDonald, President and Curator of the Sebastian Area Historical Society, was awarded a scholarship to attend the 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting. [...]
2016 Annual Meeting Wrap-Up: Session Recordings, Photos, Takeaways, and More
First of all, thank you. Thank you to our program committee, the host committee and local institutions, our onsite volunteers, [...]
The History Relevance Campaign Moves to the Next Step
Having laid the groundwork, the History Relevance Campaign (HRC) is ready to take a big step forward and needs your help. The HRC started a [...]
Teamwork and Internal Collaboration
Recently, staff at the White House Historical Association were asked to complete a job description questionnaire, which asked everyone to provide a list of key [...]
Empty Spaces: Interpreting without Furnishings at Gunston Hall
It was a balmy and hot day in July. Fear and anxiety were in the air as the moving truck slowly backed up to the [...]
“Here’s a chance for that historian to do something”
“Here's a chance for that historian to do something…. what's her name?” James T. Kirk, “Space Seed,” Star Trek This is how the conversation usually [...]
Preparing for Nomenclature 4.0 in PastPerfect
With the upcoming release of Nomenclature 4.0 for Museum Cataloging, there is no better time to finish any old lexicon clean-up projects in your PastPerfect database. [...]
AASLH Offering Two Webinars on Volunteer Management in March
Build the Best Volunteer Staff You Can With AASLH’s Online Training in Volunteer Management Are You Ready For Volunteers? Many volunteer programs have existed with [...]