Sharing History with a Smartphone App
Visitors exploring the West Virginia Women’s Heritage Trail on Clio at Arts Monongahela in Morgantown, West Virginia. As history professionals, [...]
Protecting the Legacy: Documenting Political Activity of African American Women in Tennessee Prior to 1930
Studio portrait of Annie Sybil Thomas Jarret taken by James P. Newton around 1900 in Memphis, Tennessee. Two years ago, [...]
Two Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in February
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates in the last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program [...]
Birthplace of Country Music Museum permanent exhibits
The Birthplace of Country Music Museum (BCMM) opened in August 2014 to tell the story of the 1927 Bristol Sessions recordings, explore [...]
Priesthood Restoration Historic Site
The Priesthood Restoration Site, a permanent historic site of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), formally opened [...]
Texas Story Project
The "Texas Story Project" launched November 2014 as a component of the Bullock Texas State History Museum’s website. The project was [...]
A Journey to the Moon through Texas
The Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) launched "A Journey to the Moon through Texas," a web exhibit showcasing selected films [...]
West by Orphan Train
It seems incomprehensible that there was a time in America’s not-so-distant past when nearly a quarter of a million children from East Coast orphanages were [...]
A Stone of Hope: Black Experiences in the Fox Cities
In 2014, the History Museum at the Castle and African Heritage, Inc. created a civic engagement initiative to highlight the marginalized history of Black experiences [...]
Civil War Pathways in the Pacific Northwest
In 2014, the Washington State Historical Society debuted Civil War Pathways in the Pacific Northwest, a major exhibition and accompanying online feature, based on the [...]
Tobacco Barns Preservation Project
Recognizing the lack of programs to protect the state’s historic rural and agricultural heritage, Preservation Virginia launched the Tobacco Barns Preservation Program in 2012. The [...]
La Belle: The Ship That Changed History
La Belle: The Ship That Changed History is a 6,000 square foot special exhibition that examines the more than three hundred years of history of [...]
Tennessee War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission
While the War of 1812 has national significance, the event was exceptionally important to Tennessee. The conflict made Andrew Jackson a household name, gave rise [...]