AASLH Annual Conference Registration Now Open
Registration for the 2022 Annual Conference is now open! Register Here We hope you will join us in-person in Buffalo, [...]
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. The two [...]
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 is excited [...]
Introducing the AASLH Public History Research Lab
By John Marks, Director, Public History Research Lab and Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives Conducting and sharing research about the [...]
Research Brief: What a New Report Reveals about History in American Life
By John Marks, Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives Late last year, the Humanities Indicators Project of the American Academy of [...]
Reaching Excellence One Step at a Time
By John Dichtl, AASLH President and CEO After ten years of helping more than 1,100 institutions move forward through [...]
Museum Education and the Great Outdoors
By Catherine Shortliffe and Sally Meyer Museum educators are planners. We strategize years in advance and in general take the [...]
Public History in a Social Service Agency: The House on Henry Street Exhibition Connects Staff and Neighbors with Their Past
By Katie Vogel, Public Historian, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY There is a resonance between the past and present that invigorates the current work [...]
An Invitation to #AASLH2019
This August 28-31, the joint American Association for State and Local History and International Coalition of Sites of Conscience Annual Meeting will convene in Philadelphia [...]
AASLH 19th Amendment Centennial Value Statement
Pictured here is Annie Sybil Thomas Jarret at the Republican National Convention in either the 1940s or 1950s held in Chicago. Jarret was an [...]
Improving Exhibits, One Step at a Time
By Sara Francis, Glenwood Springs Historical Society & Frontier Museum, Glenwood Springs, CO I am grateful to AASLH for awarding me the New Professionals scholarship [...]
Extended! Enroll in StEPs and Receive Three Bonus Resources
The work that needs to be done at our nation’s museums is endless. But, as we all know, our energy and resources are not unlimited. [...]
Five Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in April
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 [...]