Water Has a Memory: The Impact of Sea Level Rise on the Historical Resources of Strawbery Banke Museum
Strawbery Banke Museum, located four hundred feet from the banks of the Piscataqua River in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is a nine-acre [...]
AASLH Visited 38 National Park Sites in 2017
Glacier National Park in Montana Recently, the National Park Service announced that in 2017, they had a total of 330,882,751 [...]
4 AASLH Members Among Finalists for IMLS National Medal
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has announced twenty-nine finalists for the 2018 National Medal for Museum and Library Service. The [...]
Networking for Emerging History Professionals
Talking to other history professionals at the 2015 AASLH Annual Meeting Although museum/history professionals may not face the [...]
5 Citizen History Projects You Should Know About (Part 1)
With the ubiquity of the internet, crowdsourcing help, resources, and artifacts has been an effective way for libraries, museums, institutes, [...]
Same Skills, New Tech: Social Media Lessons from a 1967 AASLH Technical Leaflet
Image by Queens of Vintage At AASLH, we don't like to reinvent the wheel. We are constantly looking [...]
Seven Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in December and January
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates in the last two months! The Standards and Excellence Program for History [...]
Middle Tennessee Museums See Success with StEPs
AASLH received a grant from the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee in the fall of 2011 to create a StEPs (Standards and Excellence Program for [...]
AASLH Invites Nominations for 2016 Leadership in History Awards Program
NASHVILLE, TN—December 2015 The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) invites nominations for the 2016 Leadership in History Awards. Now in its 69th [...]
Meet a Member: Jackie Peterson
We are excited to launch a new biweekly blog series called “Meet a Member.” AASLH has 5,500 fascinating members working hard for the field of [...]
Advocacy Alert: Success with ESSA! Now Tell Your Senator to Vote “Yes” on Dec 7
Members of the Historical Community, Late yesterday the House of Representatives, by a vote of 359-64, approved the conference report to S. 1177, the “Every [...]
Welcome New AASLH Members (Nov. 2015)
AASLH is pleased to welcome all the individuals and institutions who became members in November. We are so glad you chose to make AASLH your [...]
How Aid to Norway During WWII Transformed Into a History Museum
2015 marks AASLH's 75th Anniversary Year. For the occasion, AASLH has created a blog series for members to share their unique history and memories. Contributions [...]