FSA Tips: Fundraising
By the AASLH Field Services Alliance At the 2019 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, the Field Services Alliance led a tips session [...]
StEPs Spotlight: McHenry County Historical Society & Museum
Exciting changes are happening at the more than 1,000 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History [...]
Three Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in November
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards [...]
Seven African American Museums Selected for First NMAAHC StEPs Cohort
Over the next twelve months, seven African American history organizations will form a cohort while receiving guidance in the areas [...]
Crowdsourcing Slavery Interpretation Challenges
By Kristin Gallas, Interpreting Slavery Ever feel like there is a lot of potential that goes untapped at conferences? Let’s [...]
Stopping Stones and the Slave Dwelling Project Are Coming to Kansas City
There are a couple of unique opportunities for attendees at the upcoming AASLH conference in Kansas City. These events are [...]
Collections Management: Dispatches from the Trenches
By Nik Honeysett, CEO, Balboa Park Online Collaborative Beginning in November 2017, the Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC) contracted with [...]
4 Ways Historic House Museums Can Create More Meaningful Visitor Experiences
The Ropes Mansion Every year, AASLH receives over 100 nominations for our Leadership in History Awards, which recognize organizations doing "Good History." Our Awards committee [...]
Baby Boom II: Motherhood and Museums One Year Later
To my astonishment, Baby Boom: Motherhood and Museums has consistently been one of the most popular AASLH blog posts since it was published a year [...]
Networking for Emerging History Professionals
Talking to other history professionals at the 2015 AASLH Annual Meeting Although museum/history professionals may not face the same problems or have the [...]
5 Citizen History Projects You Should Know About (Part 1)
With the ubiquity of the internet, crowdsourcing help, resources, and artifacts has been an effective way for libraries, museums, institutes, and independent projects to get [...]
Same Skills, New Tech: Social Media Lessons from a 1967 AASLH Technical Leaflet
Image by Queens of Vintage At AASLH, we don't like to reinvent the wheel. We are constantly looking back through History News, Technical Leaflets, and [...]
Seven 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 History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program designed [...]