What Are the Legislative Issues Facing the Field in 2021? A Report from Museums Advocacy Day
By Bethany L. Hawkins, AASLH Chief of Operations On February 22-23, AASLH staff joined hundreds of museum advocates from around the [...]
Where Are Our Think Tanks?
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis This is what you shall do…re-examine all you have been told at school or church [...]
Measuring Social Impact to Make Social Changes: Learn How To Get Involved
By Michelle A. Mileham, Ph.D., Project Manager, Measurement of Museum Social Impact (MOMSI), Utah Division of Arts and Museums In what [...]
From Oklahoma to Philly: A Scholarship Winner’s Perspective on #AASLH2019
By Natalie Wadle, Shawnee Tribe Cultural Center, Miami, OK This year I was fortunate enough to attend the AASLH Annual [...]
Best Practices for StEPs Success
By Cherie Cook, Senior Program Manager, AASLH When I think about best practices for museums, my curatorial work from years [...]
Making History Matter: Agency
Visitors at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum confront the choices made by local activists to challenge Jim Crow in [...]
StEPs Spotlight: Jackson County Historical Society
Exciting changes are happening at the more than 1,000 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program [...]
Living in the Past: the Heritage House Program at Strawbery Banke Museum
The front entrance of the Penhallow House on Washington St., Portsmouth, NH. In a transitional world, museums must stay relevant to society. Change [...]
Sharing History with a Smartphone App
Visitors exploring the West Virginia Women’s Heritage Trail on Clio at Arts Monongahela in Morgantown, West Virginia. As history professionals, getting publicity for [...]
Protecting the Legacy: Documenting Political Activity of African American Women in Tennessee Prior to 1930
Studio portrait of Annie Sybil Thomas Jarret taken by James P. Newton around 1900 in Memphis, Tennessee. Two years ago, Chick History launched [...]
Two Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in February
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 [...]
2018 Mutual Concerns of Air and Space Museums Conference
Call for Proposals The Program Committee of the Mutual Concerns of Air and Space Museums Conference is seeking session proposals for their November 2018 meeting [...]
Most Trust Museums as Sources of Historical Information
By John Dichtl, AASLH President and CEO Twenty years ago, we learned from Rosenzweig and Thelen’s The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in [...]