Help Us Shape the Future of Public History Publications
By Aja Bain, AASLH Program and Publications Manager In the course of your public history work or teaching career, I bet [...]
The History Lovers’ Last-Minute Gift Guide
By Albert Samuels, Senior Manager, Marketing and Sales There’s still time to get your beloved historian a gift they will adore, and the [...]
Tips for Submitting a Successful #AASLH2022 Session Proposal (Part 3)
By Bethany L. Hawkins, AASLH Chief of Operations Do you have an idea for a session for [...]
Navigating Discussions About Collections as Financial Assets
By Cherie Cook, Senior Program Manager, AASLH Last week, the AASLH Council adopted a revised and re-titled position paper [...]
Phone Calls and Lip Balm: Small Museums Taking Care of Volunteers During COVID-19
A volunteer-led tour at the Center for Colorado Women’s History at the Byers-Evans House in Denver, Colorado. [...]
Are We Stronger Together?
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis In a recent blog, Randi Korn and Paul Pearson underscored the importance of [...]
Moving Forward
By Randi Korn and Paul Pearson At a particularly bleak moment in December 1776, George Washington declared, “Desperate diseases [...]
Conference Context: Corruption and Consequences in Kansas City’s Pendergast Era
Conference Context is a blog series discussing local history and contemporary topics in our next Annual Meeting destination: Kansas City, Missouri. We hope this series [...]
Five Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in August
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 for small to [...]
33 AASLH Members Receive Over $6 Million in NEH Grants
This month, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $43.1 million in grants for 218 humanities projects. “From nationally broadcast documentaries to [...]
FSA Tips: Visitor Services Beyond the Front Desk
By Jeannette Rooney, Assistant Director, Local History Services, Indiana Historical Society When we think of visitor services, we often imagine that it's all about greeting people [...]
Still Time to Add Events for #AASLH18
Harry S. Truman National Historic Site Are you waiting until you get to Kansas City to purchase tickets for workshops, meals, tours, and [...]
American National Biography Seeks Contributors for Local and Regional Stories
By Jo Payne, Head of Biographical and General Reference, Oxford University Press Our masthead proudly proclaims “The life of a nation is told by the lives [...]