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Volunteer-Run History Organization Makes Advances with STEPS
Volunteer-Run History Organization Makes Advances with STEPS Evy Raes, Slater Area Historical Association Board Member Editor’s Note: The AASLH Standards and [...]
National History Day Seeks Alumni Stories for 50th Year
National History Day Seeks Alumni Stories for 50th Year This post is from National History Day, which is asking those who [...]
Help the U.S. Department of Commerce Amplify Women’s History Month
Help the U.S. Department of Commerce Amplify Women’s History Month By Samantha Feder, U.S. Commercial Service The U.S. Commercial Service’s Global [...]
Encourage Members of Congress to Join the America250 Caucus
Members of Congress are forming a Congressional America250 Caucus to work together to commemorate and support the upcoming 250th [...]
Call for Posters for AASLH 2023 Annual Conference
AASLH has partnered with the National Council on Public History (NCPH) to invite proposals for an NCPH‐sponsored Poster Session at [...]
We Are Sandy Spring: An Innovative Project in Community Engagement
By Avi Decter Nearly ten years ago, in the fall of 2013, I received a startling email. Allison Weiss, [...]
Are You Prepared?
By Bethany Hawkins, AASLH Chief of Operations Every year on May 1, the museum field celebrates MayDay by doing [...]
Reframing History
We need a more productive public conversation about history. Today, AASLH is proud to introduce Reframing History, a new set of evidence-backed communications strategies [...]
AASLH Committees at Work (Part 2)
Once or twice a year we ask the chairs of AASLH committees to summarize what their group has been working on and plans to [...]
5 Ways to Make Your Historic House Museum Visitors Feel at Home (Even with Uncomfortable Topics)
By Bethany L. Hawkins, Chief of Operations, AASLH One common criticism of historic house museums is they are static and impersonal. Even when curators [...]
AASLH Committees at Work (Part 1)
Once or twice a year we ask the chairs of AASLH committees to summarize what their group has been working on and plans to [...]
History Museums and Trust
By John Garrison Marks, Director, AASLH Public History Research Lab Americans trust history museums—or so we like to tell ourselves. Back in November on [...]
Black History Month Resources
In celebration of Black History Month, AASLH has compiled a list of resources from our Resource Center that we are sharing free for the [...]