Moving Luzerne County Historical Society Forward
By Aimee E. Newell, Ph.D., Executive Director, Luzerne County Historical Society with introduction by Cherie Cook, Senior Program Manager, AASLH Assessment programs [...]
AASLH Announces 2019 Small Museums Scholarship Winners
Rocky statue outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Now in their thirteenth year, the Small Museums Affinity Community’s annual scholarships help [...]
Ideas for Funding Your Organization’s Visitor Research
By Cherie Cook, Senior Program Manager, AASLH Visitor satisfaction is a “big deal,” writes Colleen Dilenschneider in her blog post "The Three [...]
We Are All the Spinning Wheel
Throughout the course of my visits to museums, historic houses, and historic sites around New England, I found one specific [...]
Out with the Old, In with the Slightly More Updated and Stimulating Exhibit Experience
The Hezekiah Alexander House on the Charlotte Museum of History's property dates to 1774. By Sara Blanchett Through [...]
5 Sites to Celebrate National Poetry Month
National Poetry Month, inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, has become a worldwide celebration of the beauty [...]
14 AASLH Members Receive Over $2.5 Million in NEH Grants
This month the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $18.6 million in grants for 199 humanities projects. [...]
Digital History Company Plans to Create Interactive Digital Version of the Library from American Philosophy: A Love Story
One of the year’s best books is a beautifully written story about books – specifically, a lost collection of priceless tomes with inscriptions and margin [...]
Hear, Here: Voices of Downtown La Crosse
Hear, Here: Voices of Downtown La Crosse is a location-based mobile phone documentary project about downtown La Crosse that uses street-level signs to share local stories [...]
A Walk in 1875 St. Louis
It all started with a map. Pictorial St. Louis, a perspective map that showed every street, building, park, and even outhouse in the city, was [...]
Peb Yog Hmoob—We Are Hmong Minnesota
In 1975, the Hmong—a distinct ethnic group with origins in China, who by the twentieth century were concentrated in northern Laos—began migrating to the United [...]
Life & Death on the Border 1910–1920
Life & Death on the Border 1910–1920, a groundbreaking exhibition of the Bullock Texas State History Museum, brings new voices and perspectives to the forefront [...]
Storify of the #AASLHchat on Serving Communities During Difficult Times
On December 13, AASLH held our third #AASLHchat on Twitter. These monthly discussions are shaping up to be a great way for AASLH'ers to crowdsource [...]