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AASLH Statement on Charlottesville
Rotunda at University of Virginia, Charlottesville. The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) abhors not only the violence [...]
AASLH Announces 3 New Books from Rowman & Littlefield
The AASLH Series at Rowman & Littlefield Publishers is proud to announce three new titles for summer. Covering a wide range of [...]
StEPs Spotlight: Essex Historical Society is Achieving Success Through Change and Risk-Taking
Exciting changes are happening at the 900 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations). Our [...]
54 AASLH Members Receive Over $5 Million in IMLS Grants
54 AASLH member institutions were awarded prestigious Museums for America grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). [...]
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. [...]
When is a Coin, Not Really a Coin?
When is a coin not really a coin? That's not a trick question by any means. For a military college, there is a very distinct [...]
MY Historic House
I don't know anything about this house. Okay, that’s not entirely true. I know that I lived here for just under three months in 1999 [...]
AASLH Offering Two Workshops on Public Programming
Register Early and Save! Hurry, Space is Limited! Focusing On Visitors: Public Programming And Exhibits At History Institutions This workshop provides a broad overview of [...]
How Clean are Your Interactives?
As a museum educator, I was horrified when I saw the media headlines alleging that there was a measles scare at the Please Touch Museum [...]
Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium Project
For the past decade, the Pikes Peak Library District (PPLD) has hosted a day-long symposium for the public. Every year a different historical topic is [...]
Upstairs, Downstairs Tour
The Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion is Philadelphia's only authentically restored Victorian house museum. Located in the historic Germantown section of the city, the Mansion was built [...]