Practicing Facilitation: Lessons from the Tenement Museum
Visitors on the Hard Times tour. Collection of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. This post was originally published on the [...]
StEPs Spotlight: The Black Heritage Society of Washington State on Becoming Better Stewards of Their Collections
Exciting changes are happening at the 800+ organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations). Our [...]
Idealism, Ego, and Wising Up: Having My Idealism Crushed Helped My Career
When I was in my mid-20s I was working on a community engagement grant project that involved bringing K-12 students and community [...]
New AASLH Books for History Professionals (Spring 2016)
We are proud to announce the newest spring 2016 titles in the AASLH Series from Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. View the [...]
Welcome to Michigan: A Message from the Michigan Museums Association
Michigan is filled with a wide array of people, communities, and landscapes. From the tiny towns of the Upper Peninsula [...]
A Prototype of the Colorado Encyclopedia is Now Online
Colorado Humanities, in collaboration with Colorado State University Libraries, the University Press of Colorado, and History Colorado, is pleased to [...]
Enroll in StEPs in May and Get a Special Get-the-Ball-Rolling Bonus
Has your organization been waiting for the right time to enroll in AASLH's Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations [...]
How Can My Museum Change from One Classification System to Another?
This post is an excerpt from a paper that was previously published in the AASLH Nomenclature Community, "Adopting a Classification System for Collections of Human-Made [...]
AASLH Issues 2015 Call for Proposals
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) will present its 2015 annual meeting in Louisville, KY, from September 16-20. AASLH is now accepting [...]
Please Don’t Touch the Dinosaur
What do 90s sitcoms like Full House and Sister Sister have in common with Oscar award winning film Midnight in Paris and Mary Poppins? Very [...]
The Next Word on Nomenclature at the AASLH Annual Meeting
“ "It’s only words, and words are all I have to catalog that thing.” Ancient quotation based on lyrics by Bob Crewe and Edward Fluri [...]
AASLH Offering Two Webinars to Help With Grant Writing
Are you wanting more grant funding for your organization? Are you planning on applying for grants this fall and need to improve your chances? AASLH [...]
Ice Bucket Envy
By now, everyone on the planet has seen the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Celebrities, politicians, our Facebook friends, and even Muppets are having buckets of [...]