American National Biography Seeks Contributors for Local and Regional Stories
By Jo Payne, Head of Biographical and General Reference, Oxford University Press Our masthead proudly proclaims “The life of a nation is told [...]
The Economy of the Annual Meeting
By Bethany Hawkins, COO, AASLH If you just registered for the upcoming AASLH Annual Meeting in Kansas City to secure the early [...]
Coming Soon: Forgotten Fortunes
By Donovan Jacobs Does your state, county, city, or other region have a story about a historically important, valuable, or unusual object [...]
Creative Audience Engagement Techniques from Award Winners
If your organization is looking for creative ways to engage your audience, here are four Leadership in History Awards winning projects [...]
What You Can Do on Summer Vacation
Did you ever have to write the typical “What I Did on Summer Vacation” essay on the first day of [...]
Master Local Historian: AASLH Launches Historian Training Program for the Public
A photograph of the Tennessee State Library and Archives building taken on July 17, 1956, a few short years [...]
To Do Rightly: Congregations as Incubators of American Activism
Photo by Victor Manuel Ramos. Courtesy of Arch Street Meeting House. Last year, the Arch Street Friends Meeting [...]
14 AASLH Members Receive Over $1 Million in NEH Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced today that it will award $21.1 million in grants for 248 humanities projects. “NEH grants bring the humanities [...]
Curtains Without Borders Has Created a National Database of Historic Stage Scenery
Curtains Without Borders is a small non-profit organization that has been documenting and restoring historic stage scenery for almost 20 years. We've found 500 grand [...]
Leadership Matters at Every Level
I wasn’t the typical student in the most recent Leadership and Administration in History Organizations online course through AASLH. I’m not a director of a museum. [...]
Visitors Studies Association 2016 Conference Open for Registration
July 19-23, Hyatt Regency Boston With 14 in-depth workshops ranging from introductory statistics to data visualization and reporting, over 45 presentations of papers, roundtables, [...]
CCAHA Offering Free Assistance for NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant Applications
Development assistance from the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) is now available for your NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant application. The National [...]
How Much Did That Meeting Just Cost?
We’ve all been there, sitting in a two-hour meeting that seems to be going nowhere, the all-day meeting with consultants that produces minimal results, or [...]