Heritage Planning for Sustainable Cultural Impacts
By Douglas Worts, AASLH Sustainability Task Force member In a recent column for History News, President and CEO John Dichtl states that [...]
History and Climate Change
This column originally appeared in the Winter 2019 issue of History News. By John R. Dichtl, AASLH President and CEO Midwinter, a [...]
Book Review: Teaching with Primary Sources
This review originally appeared in the Winter 2019 issue of History News. Teaching with Primary Sources By Christopher J. Prom and Lisa [...]
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 [...]
Join AASLH at Museums Advocacy Day 2018
Members of the AASLH Council, AASLH President John Dichtl, and External Relations Coordinator John Marks invite you to join them [...]
Twitter, Taylor Swift, and a Crash Course in Women’s History
Montage of famous women: Hatshepsut, first female pharaoh of Ancient Egypt; Ieshia Evans, peaceful protester in Baton Rouge, LA; [...]
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? [...]