Tips for Submitting a Successful #AASLH2022 Session Proposal (Part 2)
By Bethany L. Hawkins, AASLH Chief of Operations Do you have an idea for a session for AASLH’s 2022 Annual Meeting or [...]
Tips for Submitting a Successful #AASLH2022 Session Proposal (Part I)
By Bethany L. Hawkins, AASLH Chief of Operations Do you have an idea for a session for AASLH’s 2022 Annual Meeting or [...]
Call for Survey Participants: Making in Museums and Historic Sites
By Tim Betz, Morgan Log House (Towamencin, PA )and Kutztown University of Pennsylvania (Kutztown, PA) Museums and historic sites have [...]
Finding Our Way Together
By John Dichtl, President and CEO, AASLH Eight weeks into the pandemic (or more, depending on what part of [...]
Conversations and Surveys for History Organizations
As history organizations around the country adapt to the rapidly evolving public health situation, we'll be sharing resources and [...]
It’s Strategic to Think of the Future: Strategic Planning in the Time of COVID-19
By Daniel Ronan, Resilient Heritage The effects of COVID-19 have brought significant impacts to many history museums and cultural [...]
Sharing Authority After the Plague
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis Watching the President, Vice President, and assorted scientists and governors awkwardly "sharing authority" [...]
The Economy of the Annual Meeting
By Bethany Hawkins, COO, AASLH If you just registered for the upcoming AASLH Annual Meeting in Kansas City to secure the early bird rate, or [...]
Coming Soon: Forgotten Fortunes
By Donovan Jacobs Does your state, county, city, or other region have a story about a historically important, valuable, or unusual object that has been [...]
A Crisis of Faith: Interpreting Leonard Bernstein’s Music and Religion
Photos courtesy of Jessi Melcer. By Barbara Franco, independent scholar, museum consultant, and co-editor of Interpreting Religion at Museums and Historic Sites (Rowman [...]
Explore Women’s History in Kansas City at #AASLH18!
Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration. By Megan Byrnes, incoming co-chair, AASLH Women's History Affinity Group Whether you are attending this [...]
Historic Prayers in Historic Churches
By Spencer W. McBride, Ph.D. One of my favorite historical sites to visit whenever I am in Philadelphia is Christ Church. Beyond its obvious architectural [...]
The Value of Small Museum Experience, or Why I Don’t Have a “Better” Job
By Aimee E. Newell, Ph.D., Executive Director, Luzerne County Historical Society, Wilkes Barre, PA I met someone a couple of months ago who, after I explained [...]