Research Brief: What a New Report Reveals about History in American Life
By John Marks, Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives Late last year, the Humanities Indicators Project of the American Academy of Arts and [...]
Reaching Excellence One Step at a Time
By John Dichtl, AASLH President and CEO After ten years of helping more than 1,100 institutions move forward through self-assessment, this [...]
Museum Education and the Great Outdoors
By Catherine Shortliffe and Sally Meyer Museum educators are planners. We strategize years in advance and in general take the long view [...]
Philadelphia Reflections from #AASLH2019
By Harvee White, Augusta Museum of History, Augusta, GA Conferences, in the best way possible, are exhausting! Let’s see how [...]
2019 Annual Meeting Audio Recordings Now Available
Audio recordings from last month's AASLH Annual Meeting in Philadelphia are now available online! Every year, we record our keynotes [...]
New Lighting Brings Big Changes to Small Museum
By Kelli Thomerson, Roanoke Visitor Center and Museum, Roanoke, TX Some people may think a small museum is amateur, but [...]
Seven Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in August
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s [...]
Welcome to #NightmareAtTheMuseum Week
A policy a day keeps the chaos away. Does your organization have policies and procedures in place to deal with the stickier aspects of running [...]
In Memoriam: Laura Hockaday
In Kansas City, people of color got little recognition for their civic contributions until Laura Hockaday saw an opportunity and acted. As the self-proclaimed “people [...]
Field Services Alliance Tips: Emergency Preparedness
The Problem: Cultural institutions often lack the ability to develop comprehensive emergency preparedness and response measures, which has put many of the country’s most prized [...]
U.S. 250, Career Diversity, and Other Takeaways from the AHA Annual Meeting
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the American Historical Association’s annual meeting as thousands of historians braved the bitterly cold temperatures and biting [...]
34 AASLH Members Receive Over $2.5 Million in NEH Grants
In December, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $12.8 million in grants for 253 humanities projects and programs. “The humanities offer [...]
StEPs Spotlight: La Crosse County Historical Society
Exciting changes are happening at the 980 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations). Our “StEPs Spotlight” blog series [...]