Beyond Passion Projects: Rethinking the Economic Models of Public History
Mural designed by Daisy Salto and painted by the sixth grade class at Mark Twain Elementary School, Chicago IL, 2016. Unveiled [...]
Leveraging Technology to Do Better History
Digital technology is vast, constantly changing, and increasingly necessary to understand and utilize if your site wants to stay relevant. Here are [...]
Call for Articles: Emerging History Professional Takeover of History News Magazine
Emerging History Professionals are taking over the Winter 2018 issue of AASLH’s History News magazine! The issue will be guest co-edited by [...]
How to Connect with the Field Services Alliance at the 2016 AASLH/ MMA Annual Meeting
The Field Services Alliance (FSA) is made up of an eclectic group of professionals with wide-ranging backgrounds from all over [...]
This Annual Meeting is the BEST for Historic House Museums
This Annual Meeting is the BEST for Historic House Museums! Admittedly, I may be a little biased because I am [...]
Six Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in August
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 [...]
28 AASLH Members Receive Over $9 Million in NEH Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $79 million in grants for 290 humanities projects [...]
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 [...]