52 AASLH Members Receive Over $2 Million in NEH Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $16.3 million in grants for 290 humanities projects and programs [...]
AASLH’s John Dichtl Visits DC to Discuss the Humanities Indicators Project, History Relevance
AASLH President & CEO John Dichtl meets with the Humanities Indicators team in DC. I didn’t feel like it leaving [...]
The Wright Lesson: How a Small Historical Society Took a Risk and Generated Local Recognition, Community, and Financial Support
Front of Glencoe Historical Society This article was orginally published in the Autumn 2016 issue of History News, the official magazine of AASLH. [...]
Advocacy Alert: Funding Needed for ESSA Grant Program
With President’s Day behind us and questions about Constitutionalism and an appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court in the news, [...]
Is Your Museum Grant Ready? Two Upcoming Webinars on Grant Writing in March
Is your museum grant ready? From the author of Is Your Museum Grant-Ready? Assessing Your Organization’s Potential for Funding come [...]
25 AASLH Members Included in NPR Story on Living History
In November 2015, NPR put out the call for answers to this question: "What Do We Do Now In America [...]
Six AASLH Members Receive State Grants
The Tennessee State Library and Archives just announced it will grant funds to 29 organizations across the state to preserve [...]
Music in a Faith Community
Music has a positive social and psychological effect. It can bring a group of people together around a common cause. Anyone who has ever performed [...]
Three Scholarships Available for 2014 Annual Meeting
AASLH Small Museum Scholarship Now in its eighth year, AASLH’s Small Museums Committee is offering scholarships to any AASLH members who are full-time, part-time, paid, [...]
Houses in the Mail…Within These Walls at the Smithsonian
Working at a historic house museum presents its own set of challenges, developing an exhibition with a historic house as the key artifact presents a [...]
Military Artifact Identification – Foreign & Domestic
Knowing what the artifact is essential to everything your institution does with that artifact. Without a correct identification how can one accession, catalog and interpret [...]
Bring the Boy to the Farm…
Firestone Farm is the largest living history site in Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan. It is the boyhood home of Harvey Firestone, the eventual tire tycoon. [...]
Children Who Visit Museums Have Higher Achievement in Reading, Math, and Science
The headline seems so logical to those of us in the history field. "Well, duh!" I thought when the blog came across the transom. But [...]