How to Be a Great Grant Reviewer
This post is brought to you by our Field Services Alliance Affinity Community. By Andy Verhoff, Coordinator, Ohio History Fund, Ohio History [...]
2018 Online Conference Recordings Now Available (Including a Freebie!)
The AASLH Online Conference is a yearly component of our Annual Meeting where six of our most popular sessions are reworked for [...]
Douglas Evelyn Scholarship for Diversity Now Accepting Applications
The Douglas Evelyn Scholarship for Diversity is named in honor of Douglas Evelyn, AASLH president from 1992-1994, and recognizes Evelyn’s strong support [...]
U.S. 250, Career Diversity, and Other Takeaways from the AHA Annual Meeting
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the American Historical Association’s annual meeting as thousands of historians braved the [...]
34 AASLH Members Receive Over $2.5 Million in NEH Grants
In December, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $12.8 million in grants for 253 humanities projects [...]
StEPs Spotlight: La Crosse County Historical Society
Exciting changes are happening at the 980 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History [...]
What’s Your New Year’s Resolution?
January 1. The start of a new year. In my work life, most of my planning revolves around July 1 [...]
Recap of Women’s History at the 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting
Van Hoosen Farm, September 2016 visit. Photo by Susan Ferentinos. Our women’s history offerings at the joint meeting of the Michigan Museums Association [...]
Top Takeaways from the #AASLHMMA2016 Mentoring Roundtable
Thank you to everyone who joined us in Detroit for our Emerging History Professionals Mentoring Roundtable (and for our Happy Hour aftewards, pictured above). As [...]
What AASLH Attendees Want to Learn at the 2017 Annual Meeting
We sent all attendees of the 2016 Annual Meeting a survey to find out what we did right and what we could improve. In that [...]
Can I Call It A Coozy? Classifying the Iconic Beverage Holder in Collections
Shortly after Nomenclature 4.0 was released, a colleague of mine John Neill, Riley County Historical Museum contacted me through social media asking, “Not sure if I'm surprised [...]
Center for Home Movies Searching for Public Holdings of Amateur Films
The Center for Home Movies is undertaking, thanks to support from the Library of Congress and CLIR, a survey of home movies and amateur films in archival [...]
Museums Working with Communities: The Book
I am pleased to announce that my colleague Beth Bollwerk and I have a new book that will be available in the coming weeks – [...]