Experience the Power of Place with Tours at the Annual Conference
“Right Here, Right Now: The Power of Place” is the theme of the 2022 AASLH Annual Conference. Our host city, Buffalo, [...]
Right Here, Right Now: A Message from the 2022 AASLH Annual Conference Co-Chairs
By Sarah Jencks, Partner, History Co:Lab and Jennifer Ortiz, Director, Utah Division of History We are thrilled to gather this fall [...]
AASLH Summer Interns: Marissa Hamm
Fellows Anne Comer and Marissa Hamm in the sitting room of the Thomas Cole National Historic Site with the interactive [...]
AASLH Statement on Recent Anti-Transgender/LGBTQ Legislation in Arkansas
Given that AASLH’s in-person, onsite annual conference will take place in Little Rock, Arkansas (September 22-25), we have been [...]
AASLH Council Commits to In-Person Conference for September 2021
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) is pleased to confirm that the association will hold an [...]
When You Swim with Dolphins…
By Harry Klinkhamer, Historical Resources Manager, City of Venice, FL In what feels like an eternity ago, AASLH held [...]
More States Join 250th Anniversary Commemoration Effort
By John Marks, Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives, AASLH A little over a year ago, the Congressionally-appointed U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission [...]
First Group of Entries in “The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook” Coming in August
By Modupe Labode, Will Walker, and Robert Weible, Editors of "The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook" We are excited to announce that the first group of entries [...]
“Opportunity Disguised as Chaos” – A Q&A with Brooke Salvanto of Tuckerton Seaport, Small Museums Luncheon Speaker
By Brooke Salvanto, Executive Director, Tuckerton Seaport & Baymen’s Museum and Aimee E. Newell, Executive Director, Luzerne County Historical Society The AASLH Small Museums Affinity [...]
AASLH Receives Grant to Study Americans’ Attitudes Towards History
By John Marks, PhD., Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives, AASLH AASLH learned this week that we have received a major grant of $479,000 from the Andrew [...]
#AASLH2019: Explore More at an Evening Event
By McKenna Britton, Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia is an assemblage. A city created from a collage of peoples, cultures, ideas, politics, arts, [...]
#AASLH2019: More than the Founding Fathers: Places to Visit in Philadelphia
By David Young, Delaware Historical Society, Wilmington, DE AASLH 2019 Host Committee Co-Chair When AASLH last hosted its annual meeting in Philadelphia in 1959 there [...]
#AASLH2019: Creative and Experimental Sessions
The four session tracks at the 2019 AASLH Annual Meeting in Philadelphia this August are designed to organize the conference content around our four [...]