Timing is Everything for #AASLH2020
By Alex Rasic, Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum and AASLH Council The pandemic has changed so much for us, both [...]
The Emerging History Professional’s Guide to #AASLH2020
By Iliana Morton, AASLH Emerging History Professionals Committee There’s something magical about conferences, especially as an Emerging History Professional. From networking [...]
Why the Low Registration Rate for the Conference?
By John Dichtl, AASLH President & CEO When COVID came, the idea of an onsite 2020 conference had to go away. [...]
Six Qualities of a Relevant History Experience
By Tim Grove, History Relevance initiative Museum educators and other staff that produce products for public consumption are trained to [...]
It’s What’s Inside That Counts: The ESSE Purse Museum
By Kathleen Pate, Immediate Past President, Arkansas Women's History Institute What started out as one woman’s collection of purses is [...]
Five Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in June
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s [...]
What Are We Waiting For?
This article is from the Spring 2019 issue of History News, AASLH's quarterly magazine. Members can access the full issue [...]
Crowdsourcing Transcription and Creating Community
Are you seeking a way to involve community members and schools and, as a bonus, make your document collections easily accessible? To create such a [...]
Georgia Historical Society Honors Robert L. Brown, Jr.
AASLH Member Georgia Historical Society Honors Robert L. Brown, Jr. with John Macpherson Berrien Award “In grateful recognition of a lifetime of achievement in the field [...]
AASLH Announces IMLS Grant to Improve Our Continuing Education Program
We are excited to announce that AASLH is the recipient of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to improve and expand our Continuing [...]
Kettle Creek Battlefield: A Laboratory for Exploring Layers of Relevance
Symbolic Revolutionary War veterans’ cemetery at Kettle Creek. The Kettle Creek Revolutionary War Battlefield, located between modern Tyrone and Washington, Georgia, has a [...]
AASLH President and CEO’s Address 2017
President and CEO’s Address (Excerpt) AASLH Meeting of the Membership Austin, TX, September 8, 2017 Getting to Austin was difficult for many of you, and [...]
New Book Series from AASLH: Exploring the Stories of America’s Historic Treasures
This new series is aimed at paid and unpaid public history professionals as well as history lovers, particularly those who wish they could visit certain [...]