What It’s Like to Work with a Marketing Agency on Your Annual Fundraiser
The annual fundraiser at the Napa Valley Museum Year after year museums and historical societies and countless other nonprofit organizations [...]
AASLH Response to Federal History Funding Cuts
Dear Members and Friends of AASLH, Yesterday, May 23, President Trump sent a FY2018 budget request to Congress that would drastically cut [...]
23 AASLH Members Receive Over $4 Million in NEH Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $21.7 million in grants for more than 200 humanities projects [...]
PokéWHAT?! National Trust for Historic Preservation Staff Provide a Pokémon Go Primer
As the Pokémon Go craze was taking hold of communities and blowing up in the press last week, Small Museum [...]
Pittock Mansion Historic House Museum Sees Record-Breaking Attendance of 100,000 + Annual Visitors
“At a time when many historic house museums across the country are experiencing declining visitation, Portland, Oregon's Pittock Mansion has [...]
2016 AASLH Online Conference Open for Registration
Can’t make it to Detroit but still want to participate in the AASLH Annual Meeting? Join us at the Online Conference [...]
Detroit’s Island Jewel: A Tour of Belle Isle Park
Belle Isle postcard courtesy of Detroit Historical Society Belle Isle Park is Detroit’s island jewel. The city-owned and [...]
Legends and Legacies: The First 100 Years of Fullerton College
Born a century ago, Fullerton College continues its history of providing higher education opportunities for diverse populations in Southern California. The college wanted a to [...]
Living West
The opening of the new History Colorado Center provided an opportunity for History Colorado to put dynamic discussion and civic engagement at the center of [...]
Coming to America: Washington's Swedish Immigrants
Over one million Swedes immigrated to America during the 19th and 20th centuries, escaping conscription, famine, and poverty. Washington, Connecticut became one of their new [...]
War Comes to the Mississippi Delta
War Comes to the Mississippi Delta was developed by the Museum of the Mississippi Delta to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the Civil War as it [...]
Following the Tracks of the Underground Railroad in Warren County
The diverse population living in Warren County, Ohio in the decades leading up to the Civil War made the area a hot bed of political, [...]
Torn Within and Threatened Without: Kentuckians in the Civil War Era
In preparing for their Civil War sesquicentennial, the Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) board decided to move beyond simply commemorating the conflict. Instead, the organization wanted [...]