Virtual Networking with the E&I Community
By AASLH's Educators and Interpreters Affinity Community On April 21, the Educators and Interpreters group held their latest meet-up via Zoom [...]
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 [...]
Small is Mighty: Visitation Growth Strongest at Small History Organizations
By John Garrison Marks and W. Maclane Hull Over the course of this week, we will be providing deeper dives on [...]
Announcing the AASLH National Visitation Report
By John Garrison Marks, Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives, AASLH AASLH is excited today to publish our first-ever National Visitation Report. [...]
StEPs Spotlight: Our Latest Gold Graduate, the Manitowoc County Historical Society
Exciting changes are happening at the more than 1,000 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program [...]
Seven Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in October
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s [...]
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 [...]
Lessons to Learn from Hollywood “History”
© 20th Century Fox The week after Christmas, I saw The Greatest Showman which is a highly imaginative musical movie about P.T. Barnum, [...]
2018 Small Museums Scholarships Available
Small Museums Scholarships 2018 AASLH Annual Meeting and Online Conference Kansas City, MO – September 26-29 DEADLINE: June 8 The American Association for State and [...]