“It’s About Transparency and Respect”: An Interview with NAGPRA Liaison Sheila Goff
Mesa Verde National Park in southwest Colorado. Following a career that involved working with forty-eight tribes, 212 individual human repatriations, [...]
Research is Respect: the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund for Cemetery Preservation
By T. DeWayne Moore, Executive Director, Mt. Zion Memorial Fund, Oxford, Mississippi The Mt. Zion Memorial Fund is a research and historic preservation group [...]
AASLH’s National Visitation Survey
Two weeks ago, AASLH announced the opening of a national survey of visitation at history organizations. It marked the beginning of a [...]
Networking with a Purpose: StEPs Groups Help Small Organizations Take a Leap Forward
It’s called StEPs (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations) and it is AASLH’s entry level assessment program for small- [...]
Two Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in November
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates in the last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study [...]
Will You Support AASLH?
DONATE TODAY Today is #GivingTuesday—a day dedicated to giving back. AASLH joins charities, nonprofits, social service organizations and others all [...]
Votes for Women, Y’all: Celebrating the Women’s Suffrage Centennial in Arkansas and Beyond
Inaugural Suffrage Sprint & Stroll on the steps of the State Capitol in Little Rock, August 26, 2017. [...]
Placing Family History in Context: A Personal Example & Ideas for Museums
There’s no missing Americans’ passionate interest in genealogy today. Aging baby boomers have greater free time for research and deepened appreciation for family ties. Massive [...]
Storify from #AASLHchat on Incorporating Pop Culture into Tours and Programming
Last week, AASLH hosted our very first #AASLHchat on Twitter. Our guest hosts, the Educators and Interpreters Affinity Community, created a great set of prompts [...]
Notes to Self or When to Stay Up Late at Conferences
AASLH conference time is almost here! Last year was such a great conference, and I even wrote a few notes to myself to help remember [...]
Telling a Good Story Makes for a Better Tour
The guided tour... people either love them or hate them. A good guided tour can captivate an audience. A bad one can have visitors looking [...]
What is the Religious History Affinity Group doing in Detroit?
The 2016 Annual Meeting is just around the corner and many AASLH members will be taking in the sites, catching a baseball game, and reconnecting [...]
Nomenclature Query: Classifying a “Permanent Machine”
We received a query from Diane Kester at the Wayne County Historical Association & Museum in Goldsboro, North Carolina: What do you suggest for old permanent machine? [...]