Book Review: Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections: A Practical Guide for Museums
This review originally appeared in the Summer 2018 issue of History News. Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections: A Practical Guide for Museums By [...]
Five Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in September
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 designed specifically [...]
Book Review: Fostering Family History Services: A Guide for Librarians, Archivists, and Volunteers
This review originally appeared in the Summer 2018 issue of History News. Fostering Family History Services: A Guide for Librarians, Archivists, and [...]
Ready and Rarin’ to Go Explore Women’s History in Austin!
Photograph of the march from Seneca Falls to the National Women’s Conference in Houston, 1977. Join us in [...]
#AASLH17 Sessions: Community Engagement and Teacher Professional Development
As we prepare for the 2017 Annual Meeting in Austin, the Educators and Interpreters Affinity Group Committee is trying an experiment. We’re giving presenters [...]
Out of Storage and into the Classroom: Enriching the Curriculum with a Campus Archive
Naomi Niemann (Class of 2019) shares her work digitizing and transcribing an unpublished manuscript by Edward Beecher, first president [...]
AASLH Statement on Charlottesville
Rotunda at University of Virginia, Charlottesville. The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) abhors not only [...]
AASLH Statement on CT Governor’s Elimination of $1.73 Million in Funding for CT Humanities
June 9, 2016 Connecticut Governor Danell Malloy has chosen to use his veto powers to eliminate funding for Connecticut Humanities in the state budget for FY 2016-17, [...]
So Many Terms in So Many Fields: Where to put your terms in PastPerfect 5
If you are using PastPerfect 5 to catalog your museum collections, you might be a little intimidated by all of the fields available for the [...]
To All the Job Seekers Out There…A Little Advice
To All the Job Seekers Out There I know there is a lot of advice on the World Wide Web about job seeking, but I [...]
Is Religious History Relevant?
The prominence of religion in the history of our country is undeniable. Many of the first North American settlers brought their religious beliefs and practices [...]
Pond-Hopping: How Working Abroad Can Improve Your Local History Practice
Would you like to travel the world? Not for one or two weeks, but for a year, or possibly two. It’s possible to cross the [...]
Packing Shoes for Conferences and Other Somewhat Serious Thoughts on Professional Footwear
I just spent five days in Washington, D.C., at the American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting and, while I am sure there were many things I [...]