Meet the New AASLH Book Series Editor
Dr. Rebekah Beaulieu is the new AASLH book series editor. The book series editor works with the AASLH Editorial Board and [...]
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 years. My [...]
Frederick Law Olmsted in Buffalo
Cazenovia Park By Bethany L. Hawkins, AASLH Chief of Operations April 26 is the 200th birthday of the famed [...]
2021 Call for Proposals Now Open
Little Rock Central High School, now a National Historic Site. By Michelle Moon, 2021 AASLH Program ChairThe American Association [...]
A New Professional’s Time at #AASLH2020
The word "sankofa" and its bird symbol from West Africa represent the need to reflect on the past [...]
What “The Plague” Has to Tell Us
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis Albert Camus’s 1947 novel The Plague, set in Oran, Algeria, seems to anticipate [...]
A Moment to Listen: Learning from Ancestral Legacies
By Katerin Collazo, Baylor University As a first-time attendee to an AASLH Annual Meeting, I was honored to be [...]
StEPs Spotlight: Our Latest Gold Graduate, the Greeneville Greene County History Museum
Exciting changes are happening at the more than 1,000 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations). Our “StEPs [...]
Evaluate to Advocate: Gathering Data to Tell Your Story
Read parts one and two of the advocacy series. By Sean Blinn, Programming Director, Heritage Trail Association, Bridgewater, NJ In previous posts about advocating for your [...]
Shapell Roster Project Seeks Jewish Civil War Sources and Descendants
By Eliza Kolander, Outreach Specialist, Shapell Manuscript Foundation What began as an endeavor to corroborate a long-antiquated list of Jews who served during the Civil [...]
Upcoming Changes to the History Leadership Institute
Indiana Historical Society, host of the History Leadership Institute Last year AASLH reimagined the former “Seminar for Historical Administration” as the History [...]
“It’s About Transparency and Respect”: An Interview with NAGPRA Liaison Sheila Goff
Mesa Verde National Park in southwest Colorado. Following a career that involved working with forty-eight tribes, 212 individual human repatriations, 272 funerary object [...]
Research is Respect: the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund for Cemetery Preservation
By T. DeWayne Moore, Executive Director, Mt. Zion Memorial Fund, Oxford, Mississippi The Mt. Zion Memorial Fund is a research and historic preservation group founded in 1989, [...]