2017 AASLH Annual Meeting Speakers: Darren Walker and Joaquin Castro
Attendees of the 2017 AASLH Annual Meeting can look forward to hearing from two great speakers this year: Darren Walker, President of [...]
Here’s Why Your History Museum Should Get Out the Vote
A 1916 women’s suffrage billboard. Image from the Records of the National Woman's Party, Library of Congress. It’s easy to [...]
14 Ways Organizations Are Using Visitors Count Data to Better Understand their Visitors
Visitors Count! is accepting organizations for summer/fall gate visitor surveying until June 14. For the upcoming teacher survey, the deadline to sign [...]
Corporate History at the 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Conference
Ford Motor Company Archives storage in the bowling alley at Fair Lane, 1953. Via The Henry Ford Mark [...]
The Detroit Museums Pop-Up Shop #AASLHMMA2016
With all the exciting speakers and sessions at the Annual Meeting, it’s often impossible to get out of the convention [...]
Proposed Changes to the AASLH Bylaws
At its June meeting, the AASLH Council approved several proposed changes to the AASLH Bylaws which will be presented for [...]
Message from the Council Chair
July 18, 2016 Greetings, History matters and needs to be in our conscious present. The tone for summer 2016 across [...]
Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865
The Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865 website combines original scholarship from historians with a repository of more than 6,000 pages [...]
Who Built Our Capitol? The Lives and Work of the Men and Women who Built the Minnesota State Capitol Building
The Minnesota State Capitol is considered one of America's greatest feats of statehouse architecture. But only a handful of the people who actually built the [...]
Under the Baton: Music at Old Cedar Point
The city of Sandusky, Ohio and the larger community of Erie County have long been associated with world-renowned Cedar Point amusement park. A documentary was [...]
Above and Below: Stories From Our Changing Bay
Above and Below: Stories From Our Changing Bay is a multidisciplinary exhibition project designed to engage diverse visitors of all ages in the dynamic and [...]
The Overland Westerners
The Overland Westerners exhibit marks the 100th anniversary of an epic journey on horseback by four men and a dog, who visited every state capital [...]
Prairie Daughters: The Art and Lives of Annie Stein and Orabel Thortvedt
Prairie Daughters: The Art and Lives of Annie Stein and Orabel Thortvedt shared the contributions these two virtually unknown women artists made to the preservation [...]