Chime In Before the Annual Meeting
Museum as Site for Social Action (MASS Action) Mia Convening, October 6-8, 2016, Minneapolis Institute of Art. Participants joined their peers [...]
Conference Context: Corruption and Consequences in Kansas City’s Pendergast Era
Conference Context is a blog series discussing local history and contemporary topics in our next Annual Meeting destination: Kansas City, Missouri. We [...]
Five Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in August
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 [...]
Leveraging Technology to Do Better History
Digital technology is vast, constantly changing, and increasingly necessary to understand and utilize if your site wants to stay relevant. [...]
Call for Articles: Emerging History Professional Takeover of History News Magazine
Emerging History Professionals are taking over the Winter 2018 issue of AASLH’s History News magazine! The issue will be guest [...]
Service in Cultural Heritage
Elizabeth Cruzado Carranza (center) with students from the Maria Parado de Bellido Nº 88104 school in Nivín, Peru. [...]
Got Icelandic? This Project is Cataloging Icelandic Immigrant Manuscripts at U.S. Historical Organizations
During the late 19th Century and early 20th Century, thousands of Icelanders immigrated to North America. The majority settled in Canada—mostly [...]
8 Ways to Keep History Relevant
We have all talked about it. Children are not learning enough about history in schools. Leaders rarely look at history to make informed decisions. With [...]
Historical Markers as an Arts Project?
When I took a call from Dr. Holly Goldstein, a local art history professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in the [...]
Speakers Announced for the AASLH/MMA 2016 Annual Meeting
AASLH is pleased to announce our featured speakers for the our 2016 Annual Meeting, which will be held in partnership with the Michigan Museums Association. [...]
Does Your Historic House Need Reinventing?
AASLH is helping historic sites around the US look at how they engage with their communities and their sustainability and in a one-day symposium, Reinventing [...]
Ask FSA: What is Field Services?
I recently asked a few people what they thought the phrase "field services" meant. Those who knew that I work in a Local History [...]
Nevada Museums Association 2016 Annual Conference: Call for Proposals
The Nevada Museums Association is requesting proposals for the 2016 Annual Meeting at Lake Tahoe, October 26 - 28. This year’s theme is Charting a [...]