AASLH Receives NEH Grant to Prepare for 250th Anniversary
This week, AASLH received a $150,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop planning and educational resources to help [...]
Nomenclature Available as Open Data
Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is now free for download in a number of formats! The Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) and AASLH [...]
Open Now: the 2020 National Visitation Survey
By John Marks, Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives, AASLH AASLH is calling on all history organizations to complete the 2020 National Visitation Survey. [...]
AASLH Welcomes New Council Officers and Members
NASHVILLE, TN— The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) welcomed the following history professionals to the AASLH Council [...]
Book Review: Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections: A Practical Guide for Museums
This review originally appeared in the Summer 2018 issue of History News. Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections: A Practical Guide for [...]
Five Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in September
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program [...]
Book Review: Fostering Family History Services: A Guide for Librarians, Archivists, and Volunteers
This review originally appeared in the Summer 2018 issue of History News. Fostering Family History Services: A Guide for Librarians, [...]
AASLH Announces a New Logo Based on the Values of Community, Inclusion, and Creativity
AASLH is excited to introduce a new logo that symbolizes a forward focus while remaining rooted in both the past and in a sense of [...]
14 New Museum and Public History Books from AASLH
The AASLH Series at Rowman and Littlefield Publishers is off to a great start. It's only March, and already in 2017 we've released fourteen new [...]
5 Citizen History Projects You Should Know About (Part 2)
Libraries, museums, and other academically oriented non-profits often collaborate with each other on research efforts. Recently, they are reaching out the public for help as [...]
Call for Posters: 2017 AASLH Annual Meeting
AASLH has partnered with the National Council on Public History to invite proposals for an NCPH‐sponsored Poster Session at the 2017 AASLH Annual Meeting in [...]
Villanova University Opens Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest
Villanova University has officially opened the Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest, a new center that will bring historical scholarship and perspective [...]
Interpreting Slavery with Children and Teens: Researchers Seek Input from the Field for a New AASLH Book
A school tour at Gunston Hall. In our travels to promote our first book, Interpreting Slavery at Museums and Historic Sites, and lead [...]