What’s New at the 2022 AASLH Annual Conference
Starting with last year’s Annual Conference in Little Rock, the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) began an experiment [...]
Announcing the 2022 AASLH Leadership in History Award Winners
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) proudly announces the winners of the 77th annual Leadership in History Awards, [...]
Rick Hill is the 2022 AASLH Annual Conference Keynote Speaker
The 2022 AASLH Annual Conference takes place this September in Buffalo, New York, which is on the unceded lands of the [...]
Two AASLH Conferences in 2021
Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock. Building on the reach and success of last year’s online annual [...]
What Are the Legislative Issues Facing the Field in 2021? A Report from Museums Advocacy Day
By Bethany L. Hawkins, AASLH Chief of Operations On February 22-23, AASLH staff joined hundreds of museum advocates from [...]
Where Are Our Think Tanks?
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis This is what you shall do…re-examine all you have been told at school [...]
Measuring Social Impact to Make Social Changes: Learn How To Get Involved
By Michelle A. Mileham, Ph.D., Project Manager, Measurement of Museum Social Impact (MOMSI), Utah Division of Arts and Museums [...]
#Suffrageat100 Resources: First Installment of the Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the U.S. is Now Online!
Henry Mayer. “The Awakening.” Illustration. Puck: volume 77, no. 1981, February 20, 1915, pages 14-15. From Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division: http://loc.gov/pictures/item/98502844/. [...]
2019 Leadership in History Award Winners
AASLH is proud to announce the winners of the 74th annual Leadership in History Awards, the most prestigious recognition for achievement in the preservation and [...]
#AASLH2019: Come Early and Stay the Weekend
Since this year’s conference ends on Labor Day weekend, consider bringing family and friends and enjoying the long weekend or coming a couple of [...]
Truth-Telling: Frances Willard and Ida B. Wells
By Lori Osborne, Director, Frances Willard House Museum, Evanston, IL In 1894 and 1895, Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) President Frances Willard (1839-1898) and journalist [...]
AASLH Announces Election Slate for Council and Leadership Nominating Committee
We are proud to announce the slate of candidates for four spots on the AASLH Council and three spots on our Leadership Nominating Committee. The Council [...]
Three Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in May
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program designed specifically [...]