The Power of Place for Small Museums
By Melissa Swindell, Georgia Writers Museum, Eatonton, GA This year’s theme, Right Here, Right Now: The Power of Place, is the [...]
Exploring History Through the Power of Place
By Courtney Cochley, Hyrum City Museum, Hyrum, UT I am so thankful I got to attend my first AASLH annual conference [...]
Takeaways from Buffalo 2022
By Marye Newman, Atkins-Johnson Farm and Museum, City of Gladstone, MO This year, I was one of the eight people fortunate [...]
One Theme, Two Conferences, Your Choice
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) offers two conferences in 2022 that share the same theme. [...]
AASLH Releases 2022 National Census of History Organizations
How many history organizations are in the United States? What are the fundamental characteristics of our field? Today, AASLH [...]
AASLH Announces 2022 Election Slate
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) announces the slate of candidates for the 2022 AASLH Council [...]
History Leadership Institute Seminar Returns in New Format, New Season
By Max van Balgooy, Director of the History Leadership Institute The History Leadership Institute, the American Association for State [...]
2020 Leadership in History Award Winners
Secretary of the Smithsonian Lonnie G. Bunch, our 2017 Award of Distinction recipient, with former Council Chair Katherine Kane and AASLH President and [...]
A Statement from AASLH
The past few days have provided crushing reminders of how the nation still struggles with violence and racism born in the past and harbored [...]
Think Creatively to Find Hidden History
By Emily Libecap, International Museum of the Horse, Lexington, KY How do we find historical information on people who were excluded from mainstream historical [...]
Lessons from Reopening in Texas City
By Amanda Vance, Texas City Museum Beginning May 1, Texas museums were allowed to open back up to the public. Here in Texas City, [...]
Reconnecting with Key Constituencies
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis At the moment, no one can predict with any accuracy what the long-term effects of the global pandemic [...]
Navigating Discussions About Collections as Financial Assets
By Cherie Cook, Senior Program Manager, AASLH Last week, the AASLH Council adopted a revised and re-titled position paper to replace the outdated Capitalization [...]