Becoming a More Inclusive AASLH
By Richard M. Josey Jr., AASLH Diversity and Inclusion Committee Vice-Chair and Member of Council In September 2018, John Dichtl, President and [...]
The Way We Do the Things We Do: Making History-Making Visible
Photos of Sami people and others dressed as Sami at the Nordic Museum. By Benjamin Filene, North Carolina Museum of [...]
Immigration and Counterculture History Sites of South Philadelphia
Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church By McKenna Britton, Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia South Street There’s a lot going on along South [...]
African-American Female Athletes Before Integration: Ways To Chronicle Their History Before It’s Too Late
By Evin Demirel When Alma Byrd won an Arkansas state basketball title in 1939, she had never played on a [...]
The Personal is Professional: Reckoning with Slavers in the Family
By Sarah Jencks, Director of Education and Interpretation, Ford's Theatre My parents are in their seventies, and they still live [...]
Four Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in May
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 [...]
AASLH Announces Election Slate for Council and Leadership Nominating Committee
We are proud to announce the slate of candidates for four open spots on the AASLH Council, three Council officers, and [...]
My Grandfather’s Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation
In My Grandfather’s Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation, historian Brenda Child blends a historical study of Indigenous labor, unemployment, and [...]
Custom House: Restoring a St. Paul Landmark in Lowertown
In November 2015, the Ramsey County Historical Society published Custom House: Restoring a St. Paul Landmark in Lowertown by James A. Stolpestad, the founder and [...]
2016 Kammen Award
Named in honor of the late Michael Kammen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Cornell University’s Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture Emeritus, this [...]
Minnesota Dugout Canoe Project
“As the land of more than 10,000 lakes; home to the headwaters of the Mississippi River; and host to nearly 200 miles of Lake Superior [...]
People on the Move: 50 Years of Documenting and Researching Migration Experiences at the Immigration History Research Center & Archives
People on the Move: 50 Years of Documenting and Researching Migration Experiences at the Immigration History Research Center & Archives presented broad themes of global [...]
The Haymarket Project
The Haymarket Project features the film and exhibition, Haymarket: the Soul of the City, a Haymarket publication, and tours of Haymarket. The goal is to [...]