AASLH Announces 2022 Election Slate
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) announces the slate of candidates for the 2022 AASLH Council election. There [...]
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 and Local [...]
Marilyn’s Dress and Museum Ethics
By Katie Stringer Clary, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC First things first: I am not a textiles conservator. I am a [...]
What Will We Call the January 6 Attack on Democracy?
Source: Wikimedia Commons. Photographer: Tyler Merbler. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. Dear AASLH members, [...]
2020 National Visitation Report: Little Change in 2019
By John Marks, AASLH Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives and W. Maclane Hull, University of South Carolina Visitation at history [...]
10 Unique Ways Museums Can Connect with Their Community
Campers in the Frazier History Museum’s NTI program examine artifacts in the museum’s Lewis and Clark exhibit. [...]
Is This 1904? In Praise of the History Enterprise
By David Grabitske, Castroville, TX Thursday, December 29, 1904, was a fair-weather day in Chicago, cold and clear. Henry [...]
Book Review: Museums Involving Communities: Authentic Connections
This review originally appeared in the Winter 2019 issue of History News. Book Review: Museums Involving Communities: Authentic Connections By Margaret Kadoyama (New York: Routledge, [...]
Introducing the AASLH History in Our Parks Task Force
By Shawn Halifax, Cultural History Interpretation Coordinator, Charleston County Park & Recreation Commission, Charleston, SC For over seventeen years, I’ve worked for a county park [...]
Heritage Planning for Sustainable Cultural Impacts
By Douglas Worts, AASLH Sustainability Task Force member In a recent column for History News, President and CEO John Dichtl states that the heritage sector [...]
History and Climate Change
This column originally appeared in the Winter 2019 issue of History News. By John R. Dichtl, AASLH President and CEO Midwinter, a week after the [...]
Book Review: Teaching with Primary Sources
This review originally appeared in the Winter 2019 issue of History News. Teaching with Primary Sources By Christopher J. Prom and Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (eds.) [...]
AASLH’s Task Force on Environmental Sustainability and Climate
By Sarah W. Sutton, Task Force Co-chair It’s an incredibly exciting time to be a history professional. I am frequently overwhelmed yet thrilled by the [...]