Three Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in June
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates in the last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program [...]
Uniting Town and Gown: Municipal Museum Partners with Local Colleges
A portion of the Made for the Tourist Trade exhibition at the Greeley History Museum, open from January 18 – December [...]
AASLH Emerging History Professionals Group Welcomes New Committee Members
The AASLH Emerging History Professionals Affinity Community is please to announce five new committee members joining the EHP Committee for the 2017-2019 [...]
Ten Fundraising To-do’s for Small Museums & Nonprofits
By Jamie Simek Does fundraising leave you at a loss? Have you read fundraising guides and wondered how to translate [...]
History in Motion: What We Can Learn from U-Haul’s Love for Local History
What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the word summer? Vacation? BBQs? The beach? How about moving? [...]
Free Events at the AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting
Are you coming to Detroit and looking for some cheap networking opportunities? AASLH/MMA has several events planned that you want [...]
Schedule Changes for AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting
Please note the following changes in the upcoming AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting schedule. Sessions Cancelled The Wednesday workshops, Easy to Read: [...]
Traveling 219: The Seneca Trail
Inspired by the "history from the bottom up" tradition of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), Traveling 219: The Seneca Trail collects and documents stories from [...]
Carl Sandburg in Elmhurst
Carl Sandburg in Elmhurst at the Elmhurst Historical Museum focuses on the author’s life from 1919-1928 when he and his family lived in Elmhurst, Illinois, [...]
A Brave Soldier and Honest Gentleman: Lt. James E. H. Foster in the West, 1873-1881
A Brave Soldier and Honest Gentleman: Lt James E. H. Foster in the West, 1873-1881 tells the story of Lt. James E. H. Foster and [...]
The Dred Scott Family and the National Debate Over Slavery
The Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) launched the History Live interactive videoconferencing program to connect its historical and educational resources with a wider audience, especially students. [...]
Emancipating Cliveden
Built in 1767 in Philadelphia as a summer retreat for the wealthy Chew family, the Cliveden house bears the marks of the bloody Battle of [...]
Historic South Boise Trolley Station Plaza
In 1891, booming residential growth in Boise, Idaho was tied directly to the streetcar lines that extended from downtown to new developments at the edges [...]