#AASLH17 Current Issues Forum: Call for Participants
Want to have your voice heard at the 2017 AASLH Annual Meeting? Current Issues Forum (CIF) chairs are looking for panels of [...]
Advocacy Alert: Act Today to Preserve History Funding Across the Nation
Before the 4th of July passes, House members will begin building a tomorrow with or without crucial federal programs that support the [...]
Public History and American Civil Religion
When I tell people I study religious history, the conversation frequently turns to the state of religion in the United States. People [...]
How Heritage Museums & Gardens Use Visitors Count to Make Unforgettable Visitor Experiences
Working on the Visitors Count project for the last couple of years has been a satisfying experience of learning where [...]
What Taking History to Underserved Communities Taught Me About Museum Education
This summer, I am completing a fellowship program through The Columbus Foundation at the Ohio History Connection. I have been [...]
Catalina Island Museum Announces Executive Director Transition
The Catalina Island Museum in Avalon, California (members since 2001) announces the upcoming departure of its Executive Director, Dr. Michael [...]
Why Religious History is Essential to a Thriving Democracy
Old abandoned white wooden chapel on prairie at sunset with cloudy sky. In 1822, Thomas Jefferson wrote a [...]
Curiosities of the Craft: Treasures from the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts Collection
On July 30, 1733, Henry Price, appointed by the Grand Lodge of England, gathered his Masonic brothers at a Boston tavern and formed what would [...]
Newburyport Clipper Heritage Trail
Newburyport, a small historic seaport on the north shore of Massachusetts, has roots dating back to 1635. The Clipper Heritage Trail website celebrates this 300 [...]
The Entrepreneurs and Workers of the Soot: A History of the Foundry in Springfield, Vermont
Workers of the soot - the men and women who toiled in the heat and soot of the local foundries to provide a better life [...]
Ohio Village Timeshare
Operated by the Ohio History Connection, the Ohio Village was a recreated 1860s town made up of nineteen different structures situated around a town square. [...]
Party with the Past
Launched in the fall of 2012, Party With the Past (PWTP) is the Atlanta History Center's latest outreach program for young professionals. PWTP is designed [...]
Honor & Sacrifice: The Roy Matsumoto Story
Honor & Sacrifice is a 28-minute historical documentary by Lucy Ostrander and Don Sellers that illuminates the little-known experience of Japanese Americans who had family [...]