Five AASLH Member Museums Awarded Accreditation by AAM
The American Alliance of Museums announced this week the accreditation of fifteen museums across the nation, six being newly accredited and nine achieving [...]
AASLH Announces a New Logo Based on the Values of Community, Inclusion, and Creativity
AASLH is excited to introduce a new logo that symbolizes a forward focus while remaining rooted in both the past and in [...]
14 New Museum and Public History Books from AASLH
The AASLH Series at Rowman and Littlefield Publishers is off to a great start. It's only March, and already in 2017 we've [...]
AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting: HistoryIT Scholarship for Digital Thinking
HistoryIT, in order to support innovative digital thinking in history organizations, will provide one scholarship to support an organization wishing [...]
AASLH Welcomes First 10 Academic Program Members
Last month, AASLH launched a brand new membership type for Academic Programs. Designed specifically to meet the needs of faculty [...]
The Only Museum on California’s Santa Catalina Island Finally Gets a Permanent Home
It may surprise the thousands of visitors who have vacationed on the island of Santa Catalina, but the Catalina Island [...]
Tagging YSL + Halston: What Museums Can Learn from Hashtags
In the spring of 2014, I responded to a call for book proposals for the AASLH series at Rowman & [...]
AASLH Announces Call for Entries for 75th Anniversary Blog
75 Years of Making the Past More Meaningful to All Americans Next year marks AASLH’s 75th Anniversary Year. For the occasion, AASLH is creating a [...]
Corporate History at the 2014 Annual Meeting
At the 2014 Annual Meeting, we had a great turnout for our corporate history tour, session, and luncheon! On Wednesday, we began the Meeting with [...]
2014 AASLH Annual Meeting: A Scholarship Winner’s Perspective
As this year’s recipient of the Douglas Evelyn Scholarship for Minority Professionals, I was excitedly anticipating my first time at the AASLH Annual Meeting. As [...]
A Word (or Two) about Relevance
Relevance is a word that has become common at historic house museums. To be successful with mission and audience, we must be relevant. But what [...]
Support the Small Museums Scholarship
Will you be in St. Paul for next week’s AASLH Annual Meeting? The Small Museums Committee is collecting donations for our Small Museums Scholarship….and you [...]
A Comparison of Nomenclature 3.0 and the Parks Canada Classification System
Museums in Canada that are documenting their historical collections in English generally use one of two well-known classification systems: Nomenclature 3.0 (or the older Revised [...]