Visitation to History Organizations Increased in 2021 — But There’s a Long Way to Go
By John Garrison Marks, Director, Public History Research Lab This week, the American Association for State and Local History Public History [...]
2022 Virtual Conference Educator and Environment Sessions
The 2022 AASLH Virtual Conference is November 1-3. The pre-registration deadline is October 26. Registration is only $60 for AASLH members [...]
A National Conference with a Small Town Feel
By Sarah Adams, Edwards Place Historic House, Springfield, IL I was fortunate to attend the 2022 AASLH Annual Conference in Buffalo, [...]
Educating Your Board About History Work
By Bethany L. Hawkins, AASLH Chief of Operations I have worked full-time in the history field for over twenty-seven [...]
Frederick Law Olmsted in Buffalo
Cazenovia Park By Bethany L. Hawkins, AASLH Chief of Operations April 26 is the 200th birthday of [...]
How Civic Season Can Help History Organizations Serve the Next Generation
The American Association for State and Local History is a partner of Made By Us, an initiative of history [...]
NCPH and AASLH Publish First-of-its-Kind Report on Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment in History Organizations
Today, the National Council on Public History (NCPH) and AASLH are releasing a first-of-its-kind report on the prevalence of [...]
From Heirloom Harvests to Victory Gardens: Museums Feeding Communities During COVID-19
By Michelle Moon When spring rolls around, Eric Jackson, head gardener at Old Salem Museums & Gardens, is normally setting up the spring rotation [...]
Relief and Research for History Organizations
As history organizations around the country adapt to the rapidly evolving public health situation, we'll be sharing resources and ideas from across the field [...]
Our Hidden Superpower: The Sum Of Our Parts
By Caroline Klibanoff, Made By Us In the last few weeks, as the world has been turned upside down, history institutions - like so [...]
The View From Here: Coronavirus and the Small Museum
By Elizabeth P. Stewart and the members of the AASLH Small Museums Committee: Jacqui Ainlay-Conley, Alison Bruesehoff, Aimee Newell, Ann Bennett, Brian Failing, Bruce [...]
So Much Trouble in the World
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis The way earthly thin's are goin' Anything can happen. – “So Much Trouble in The World” Bob Marley and [...]
Resources and Funding for History Organizations
(Your collections probably don't need masks, but you do need to think about their safety in other ways!) As history organizations around [...]