State Historical Administrators Meeting
By John Dichtl, President and CEO, AASLH The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) once again has hosted its [...]
AASLH Statement on Recent Anti-Transgender/LGBTQ Legislation in Arkansas
Given that AASLH’s in-person, onsite annual conference will take place in Little Rock, Arkansas (September 22-25), we have been following recent [...]
AASLH Council Commits to In-Person Conference for September 2021
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) is pleased to confirm that the association will hold an in-person conference [...]
Nominations Open for AASLH Leadership in History Awards
2017 Award of Distinction winner Lonnie Bunch with Council Chair Katherine Kane and AASLH President and CEO John [...]
Call for Survey Participants at House Museums in CA, FL, MO, OK, SC, and TX
By Rachel Wilson, Clemson University, Clemson, SC As a Historic Preservation graduate student at Clemson University, I am conducting a [...]
More Visits to Paid-Entry Institutions
By John Garrison Marks and W. Maclane Hull This is post number four in our series exploring the National Visitation Report. [...]
Visitation at Historic House Museums
By John Garrison Marks and W. Maclane Hull This is post number three in our series exploring the National [...]
Introducing the History Leadership Institute
We are excited to announce a major re-envisioning of the Seminar for Historical Administration. Effective immediately, SHA will become the History Leadership Institute. This new [...]
AASLH Annual Meeting 2019 Call for Posters
AASLH has partnered with the National Council on Public History (NCPH) to invite proposals for an NCPH‐sponsored Poster Session at the 2019 AASLH Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. [...]
History in Progress: The One Orlando Collection
This project is the recipient of a 2017 History in Progress Award. June 12, 2016 saw the massacre of forty-nine individuals at the Pulse Nightclub [...]
Six Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in March
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates in the last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program designed specifically for [...]
Finding the Hidden Women in Iceland’s History
Photo from the Women's Day Off on October 24, 1975, when 95% of all Icelandic women walked out of work and home to protest [...]
Instructions Not Included: Breaking Down Organizational Needs
A fellow archivist disclosed that the most rational approach to archiving is to never treat it like a single-headed beast. You will never cut off [...]