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Hallowed Grounds: Sites of African American Memories
In February 2016, Stones River National Battlefield (SRNB) in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, debuted two public programs to celebrate Black History Month. On February [...]
AASLH Responds to President’s Executive Order Restricting Entry to U.S.
Feb 1, 2017 AASLH Responds to President’s Executive Order Restricting Entry to U.S. At this moment, when the President of the United [...]
Advocacy Alert: Ask Your Legislators to Fund the ESSA
Last year, AASLH worked with the National Coalition for History to advocate for the reauthorization of the Every Student Succeeds Act. Signed [...]
WWII Museum Announces Plan to Return Restored Patrol-Torpedo Boat to Home Waters
NEW ORLEANS – The National WWII Museum this week announced plans to return restored patrol-torpedo (PT) boat PT-305 to her home waters of Lake [...]
Pulitzer Prize Winner Annette Gordon-Reed Elected Trustee of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (March 4, 2016) – The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (AASLH members since 1989) board of trustees has elected Pulitzer [...]
When Baseball Went to War: U.S. Navy Baseball History Exhibit Opens at Puget Sound Navy Museum
The Puget Sound Navy Museum (AASLH members since 2015) in Bremerton, Washington is excited to announce the opening of a [...]
The Heritage Society in Houston Receives Large Grant for Marketing
Award Encourages Visitors to Tour, Touch and Live Houston's Storied Past Houston, TX - March 1, 2016 - Historians and [...]
Overcoming “No Definition” Cataloging
RCA television, c. 1960Wisconsin Historical Society 1995.18.1 Television: A device that converts incoming television signals into the original images and their associated sounds. [...]
AASLH Advocacy Alert: Congressional History Caucus
On May 19, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) released an updated list of active museums in the U.S. The findings were significant [...]
Playing Games with History
I was checking out the Educators and Interpreters Committee page on AASLH’s swanky new website earlier today, and I clicked on the Resources link. Did [...]
Easy Things the Tenement Museum Does So Right
I really love the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. You certainly can’t deny the benefit of their incredibly central location or of the money they [...]
Antiques That Speak: Collecting Long Island in the 21st Century
AASLH Institutional Member since 2000. A new exhibit highlighting important additions to the Society’s collections since the millennium. Dedicated to the late Huyler Held (1925-2012), [...]
History Organizations Represent Over Half of America’s Active Museums
Statement from the American Association for State and Local History in Response to IMLS Report Nashville, TN—On May 19, 2014, The U.S. agency that is the [...]