Three Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in April
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates in April! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations (StEPs) is AASLH’s self-study standards program [...]
What Public Historians Can Learn from Fourth Graders
Ranger Nick Sacco with a group of Fourth Graders at Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site. All photo credits go to [...]
Grant Funding for Sacred Places from the National Fund for Sacred Places
Mokuaikaua Church in Kailua-Kona, Big Island, Hawaii, USA. Photo by Stelios Michael. From prairie churches to urban cathedrals and synagogues, historic [...]
GRAMMY Foundation Accepting Letter of Inquiry Submissions for 2017 Grants
The GRAMMY Foundation is now accepting Letters of Inquiry for their 2017 grant cycle. With funding generously provided by The Recording Academy®, [...]
Meet a Member: Terri Blanchette
Meet a Member is a regular blog series spotlighting our members. AASLH has 5,500 fascinating members working hard for the field [...]
Dodge vs. Ford: The Ways They Lived and Worked (#AASLHMMA2016 Tour Spotlight)
Dodge vs. Ford: The Ways They Lived and Worked is a tour option at the 2016 AASLH/MMA Conference in Detroit [...]
Navy Unveils National Museum of the American Sailor
NAVAL STATION GREAT LAKES, Ill. – The Great Lakes Naval Museum was officially renamed the National Museum of the American Sailor [...]
AASLH Receives Grant from The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, a charitable organization dedicated to enriching the quality of life in the 40 Middle Tennessee counties it serves, announces [...]
The Moton School Story: Children of Courage
The Robert Russa Moton Museum breaks new ground with the exhibit The Moton School Story: Children of Courage. This exhibit seeks to expand the ethnic [...]
Together We Can Listen – Incorporating Evaluation Pt. 3
To build your own network for increasing evaluation capacity at your historic house museum, the Denver Evaluator’s Network recommends that it is best to start [...]
How can you assign a price to a docent program?
“Sorry Dorothy… but here’s your pink slip. You’ve been useful for the last 38 years but your volunteer services are no longer needed.” Okay, so [...]
Session Proposal: Received
For weeks you worked via email and phone conversations to develop the best conference session proposal you could. You successfully got it submitted just before [...]
AASLH Program Committee – A Newbie’s Perspective
On January 17, I started my day with a group of people—most of whom I have never met—to decide which proposals out of 126 would [...]