Five Things Attendees Want You to Know Before Submitting a Session to #AASLH2019
The deadline for submitting sessions for the 2019 AASLH Annual Meeting in Philadelphia is December 7. Since we just wrapped up the [...]
Eight Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in October
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards [...]
AASLH Announces the HLI Class of 2018
By Max van Balgooy, HLI Director AASLH welcomes the Class of 2018 to the History Leadership Institute (HLI) next week in Indianapolis. HLI is [...]
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Naomi Niemann (Class of 2019) shares her work digitizing and transcribing an unpublished manuscript by Edward Beecher, first president [...]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 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 [...]
Bonus Feature for Nomenclature 4.0
For those of you who purchased Nomenclature 4.0 you'll be receiving a surprise in the mail in the near future, or perhaps you've already received [...]
AASLH/MMA 2016: Host Committee Offering 10 Fellowships for Minority Professionals to Attend the Conference
The 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting Host Committee is pleased to offer ten fellowships to minority professionals to increase culturally diverse participation at the AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting (September [...]
Nebraska State Historical Society Names Trevor Jones as New Director/ CEO
The Nebraska State Historical Society (NSHS) Board of Trustees has appointed Trevor M. Jones of Frankfort, Kentucky, as Director/CEO of NSHS. Jones is a long-time [...]
Up in Flames: The Importance of Having a Good Relationship with Your Local Fire Department
Wow! What a day! For the last several hours we’ve had 5 fire trucks and about 20 men and women in turnout gear crawling all [...]
John S. Bacon Named New President of Stratford Hall
The Board of Directors of the Robert E. Lee Memorial Association today announced that John S. Bacon has been named President of Stratford Hall. In [...]
AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting: HistoryIT Scholarship for Digital Thinking
HistoryIT, in order to support innovative digital thinking in history organizations, will provide one scholarship to support an organization wishing to send a representative to [...]