Announcing the 2022 History Leadership Institute Seminar Cohort
The AASLH History Leadership Institute is the nation’s oldest and most prestigious leadership program for professionals in the history museum field. [...]
2022 Museums Advocacy Day
By Bethany L. Hawkins, Chief of Operations, AASLH On Tuesday, March 1, hundreds of museum employees and volunteers from all corners [...]
Reframing History
We need a more productive public conversation about history. Today, AASLH is proud to introduce Reframing History, a new set of [...]
Why the Low Registration Rate for the Conference?
By John Dichtl, AASLH President & CEO When COVID came, the idea of an onsite 2020 conference had to [...]
Small Museums Strong at 2020 AASLH Annual Meeting
The Lula Dorsey Museum at the YMCA of the Rockies in Colorado will share their volunteer program ideas [...]
What Kind of Ancestor Will You Be?
By Omar Eaton-Martínez, AASLH 2020 Annual Meeting Program Chair Like many of you, I was disappointed in not being [...]
“Making Friends with Belly Dancers”: Q&A with a Small Museum in El Paso
By Laura Casey, Texas Historical Commission and AASLH Small Museums Affinity Community Q&A with Jeff Harris of the Magoffin [...]
Historic Houses and Sustainability in Miami
On February 3-5, the American Alliance of Museums’ Environment and Climate Network and Historic Houses and Sites Network gathered a group of historic house professionals [...]
StEPs Spotlight: Luzerne County Historical Society
Exciting changes are happening at the nearly 1,000 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations). Our “StEPs Spotlight” blog [...]
Five Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in January
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 [...]
2019 Workshop Scholarships Now Available
We are pleased to offer four scholarships for individuals to attend one of our 2019 onsite workshops. Our onsite workshops brings participants from diverse institutions [...]
Why the November 11 Armistice Was Not the End of WWI
By Jennifer Zoebelein, Ph.D., Special Projects Historian, National WWI Museum and Memorial, Kansas City, MO One hundred years ago this past November 11, after four years [...]
Getting in the Door is the Battle
By Alima Bucciantini, Assistant Professor of Public History at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA I have cerebral palsy. It’s a neuromuscular disability that can have a [...]