COVID-19 Resources for History Organizations
As history organizations around the country adapt to the rapidly evolving public health situation, we'll be sharing resources and ideas from [...]
How the History Community is Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis
As history organizations around the country adapt to the rapidly evolving COVID-19 outbreak and prepare to confront an uncertain future, AASLH [...]
Public History, Generation by Generation
This column originally appeared in the Winter 2020 issue of History News, AASLH's member magazine. Access a digital copy of the [...]
AASLH Announces 1000th StEPs Program Enrollment
We are thrilled to announce the enrollment of our 1000th StEPs member, President Lincoln's Cottage in Washington, D.C.! StEPs (Standards [...]
Small Museums Scholarships Available for #AASLH2019
AASLH will hold its 2019 Annual Meeting and Online Conference in Philadelphia August 28-31. This year’s theme, What Are We [...]
Historic Houses and Sustainability in Miami
On February 3-5, the American Alliance of Museums’ Environment and Climate Network and Historic Houses and Sites Network gathered a [...]
StEPs Spotlight: Luzerne County Historical Society
Exciting changes are happening at the nearly 1,000 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for [...]
Four Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in May
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates in the last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations (StEPs) is AASLH’s self-study standards program designed [...]
What It’s Like to Work with a Marketing Agency on Your Annual Fundraiser
The annual fundraiser at the Napa Valley Museum Year after year museums and historical societies and countless other nonprofit organizations host an annual [...]
AASLH Response to Federal History Funding Cuts
Dear Members and Friends of AASLH, Yesterday, May 23, President Trump sent a FY2018 budget request to Congress that would drastically cut federal history and [...]
23 AASLH Members Receive Over $4 Million in NEH Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $21.7 million in grants for more than 200 humanities projects and programs this [...]
100,000 Scans Later: Reflections on a Two-Year Project
Picture a cramped, dusty basement covered wall-to-wall with wooden shelves and metal canisters holding 18th and 19th century documents. Now imagine climate-controlled stacks with metal [...]
5 More Citizen History Projects to Bookmark (Part 3)
Photo of a school supported by the Freedmen's Bureau in North Carolina. Photo shared by the NMAAHC (Source: Learn NC, University of North Carolina). [...]