New Report Outlines National Planning for “America 250”
By John Marks, Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives, AASLH Earlier this month, the United States Semiquincentennial Commission published its report to the President laying [...]
Fifteen Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in December and January
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates in the last two months! The Standards and Excellence Program for [...]
Announcing the History Leadership Institute Class of 2020
HLI Class of 2018 at the Indiana Medical History Museum. AASLH is excited to announce the History Leadership [...]
New Ideas and New Colleagues at #AASLH18
By Alyssa Jones, Blythewood Historical Society & Museum and South Carolina Department of Natural Resources My name is Alyssa Jones and [...]
Crowdsourcing Slavery Interpretation: Challenges and Responses
Courtesy of Montpelier Foundation. By Christian Cotz, Kristin Gallas, Linnea Grim, Richard Josey, and Joseph McGill During the [...]
Nomenclature: Now Available Online!
By Heather Dunn, Canadian Heritage Information Network Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is a standard for classifying and naming objects in [...]
Five Things Attendees Want You to Know Before Submitting a Session to #AASLH2019
The deadline for submitting sessions for the 2019 AASLH Annual Meeting in Philadelphia is December 7. Since we just wrapped [...]
Connect with AASLH at the Tennessee Association of Museums Annual Meeting
Are you going to the Annul Meeting of the Tennessee Association of Museums this week? AASLH staff members will be speaking on seven sessions. We'll [...]
Managing Volunteers: Lessons Learned Through Experience
A volunteer talking to visitors at the Cincinnati Museum Center. We all know most non-profits run on volunteers. Working at a small historical [...]
Save the NEH! Call Your Members of Congress on March 14 for Humanities Advocacy Day
March 14 is Humanities Advocacy Day! A record-breaking number of humanities advocates are in Washington D.C. today, March 13th, meeting with hundreds of Members of [...]
The Path to Cultural Sensitivity? Inclusion and Co-Curation
Exhibition planning meeting in Los Angeles, for Go For Broke National Education Center. Interpretation has come a long way. In the past few [...]
Flux and Fluidity: Telling Historical Stories in Re-Purposed Houses of Worship
A model of the Lloyd Street Synagogue during its occupancy by St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church (1889-1905). Note the addition of a [...]
AASLH Spring Webinar Series on Volunteer Management
AASLH's popular volunteer webinar series is back, and this year, when you when you register for the first webinar, you'll get 25% off the next two. [...]