AASLH 2019 Call for Proposals
By Jackie Barton, 2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) will present its 2019 Annual [...]
From California to Italy, Visitor Engagement and Meaning-Making Matter
By Alexandra Rasic, Director of Public Programs, Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum As summer comes to a close, many of us are [...]
Six Truman Destinations to Explore in Kansas City
By Margaret Keough, Mid-America Arts Alliance, Kansas City, MO Famous for the phrase “The buck stops here,” Harry S. Truman, Kansas City, [...]
AASLH Announces 3 New Books from Rowman & Littlefield
The AASLH Series at Rowman & Littlefield Publishers is proud to announce three new titles for summer. Covering a wide [...]
StEPs Spotlight: Essex Historical Society is Achieving Success Through Change and Risk-Taking
Exciting changes are happening at the 900 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History [...]
AASLH Announces 2017 Small Museums Scholarship Winners
Now in their eleventh year, the Small Museums Affinity Group's annual scholarships help colleagues from small museums across the country [...]
Deaccessioning and Capitalization of Collections
In late July, news broke in The New York Times, Boston Globe, and National Public Radio about the Berkshire Museum in [...]
AASLH Announces 2016 Leadership in History Award Winners
Sixty-three recipients from twenty-seven states receive highest honor from AASLH The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) proudly announces the winners of the 71st annual [...]
Exhibit Opening: This WAS Contemporary Art: Fine and Decorative Arts in Houston 1945–1965
This WAS Contemporary Art: Fine and Decorative Arts in Houston 1945–1965 will run at The Heritage Society Museum in downtown Houston from Thursday, July 14 to Saturday, October [...]
Stop the Drive-Bys: A Teacher Makes the Case for Local Historical Markers
As is no doubt the case at your institution, we could not be nearly as effective in our mission to teach Georgia history if it [...]
2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting Open for Registration
The 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting is now open for registration. This year’s Annual Meeting will be held from September 14-17 at the riverfront Cobo Center [...]
New Nixon Library and Museum to Open Oct. 14
YORBA LINDA, Calif., June 2, 2016—A completely new interactive presidential museum is opening at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library on October 14, 2016. The opening [...]
Improving History Work: Collaboration Continues to Matter
Before there was an American Association for State and Local History, many historians – trained and avocational–put a lot of thought into how to get [...]