What “The Plague” Has to Tell Us
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis Albert Camus’s 1947 novel The Plague, set in Oran, Algeria, seems to anticipate our experience [...]
A Moment to Listen: Learning from Ancestral Legacies
By Katerin Collazo, Baylor University As a first-time attendee to an AASLH Annual Meeting, I was honored to be a recipient [...]
Inspiring Change Agents at #AASLH2020
By Kristen Michelle Walker, Kennesaw State University I am writing this from the land of the Tsalaguwetiyi (Cherokee, East) and would [...]
Confederacy in the Commons: Addressing Controversy on the Monument Avenue Walking Tour
By Kalen Martin-Gross, AmeriCorps member, the Clio Foundation Despite being a relatively new organization, the Clio Foundation has already made [...]
Re-Introducing the History Leadership Institute
Indiana Historical Society. For the past sixty years, the History Leadership Institute has been the preeminent professional development [...]
Four Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in July
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s [...]
Attend a Naturalization Ceremony at #AASLH2019
By Elizabeth Osborn, AASLH Law and Civics Affinity Community Hosting a naturalization ceremony is a great opportunity for your institution [...]
Managing Interpreters: Presentations as Road Maps
Meandering. Wandering aimlessly. Lost. Confused. Does this describe your worst road trip? Maybe it describes the conversations between the public and your front-line interpreters? As [...]
“Here’s a chance for that historian to do something”
“Here's a chance for that historian to do something…. what's her name?” -- James T. Kirk, “Space Seed,” Star Trek This is how the conversation [...]
Unpaid Internships in the Field
In recent days, several people have newly expressed concerns about the presence of unpaid internships in the history field and about the inclusion of these [...]
Local Museums, Libraries, and Archives Participate in Remembering WWI Project
A few months ago, we invited local institutions in AASLH’s network to contribute content to the US National Archives’ centennial project, Remembering WWI. Through participation [...]
Networking with a Purpose: StEPs Groups Help Small Organizations Take a Leap Forward
It’s called StEPs (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations) and it is AASLH’s entry level assessment program for small- to mid-sized history organizations. Introduced [...]
Two Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in November
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 [...]