U.S. 250, Career Diversity, and Other Takeaways from the AHA Annual Meeting
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the American Historical Association’s annual meeting as thousands of historians braved the bitterly cold [...]
34 AASLH Members Receive Over $2.5 Million in NEH Grants
In December, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $12.8 million in grants for 253 humanities projects and programs. [...]
StEPs Spotlight: La Crosse County Historical Society
Exciting changes are happening at the 980 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations). Our [...]
Believing in Community Outreach: A Lesson in Shared Authority
Second Saturday Program Audience at the York County History Center My organization recently drafted a new strategic plan [...]
52 AASLH Members Receive Over $2 Million in NEH Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $16.3 million in grants for 290 humanities projects [...]
AASLH’s John Dichtl Visits DC to Discuss the Humanities Indicators Project, History Relevance
AASLH President & CEO John Dichtl meets with the Humanities Indicators team in DC. I didn’t feel like [...]
The Wright Lesson: How a Small Historical Society Took a Risk and Generated Local Recognition, Community, and Financial Support
Front of Glencoe Historical Society This article was orginally published in the Autumn 2016 issue of History News, the official magazine [...]
Scandal! Vice, Crime, and Morality in Montréal
Based on extensive documentary research and a wide‐ranging collection of personal accounts from Montrealers from the era along with comments by contemporary specialists, Scandal! Vice, [...]
Vashon Island's Native People: Navigating Seas of Change
The exhibit Vashon Island’s Native People: Navigating Seas of Change, created by the all-volunteer Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Museum, provided insights into the culture and unwritten [...]
The A-mazing Mendes Cohen
The exhibit concept for The A-mazing Mendes Cohen was to illuminate nineteenth-century history and the formation of Jewish-American identity through the life of an obscure [...]
Welcome New AASLH Members (Oct. 2015)
AASLH is pleased to welcome all the individuals and institutions who became members in October. We are so glad you chose to make AASLH your [...]
Interpretation at Catered Events
Catered events have become an increasingly important part of the business operations of many museums in recent years. In 2013, The Henry Ford began staffing [...]
5 Ways to Get a Woman Out of the Kitchen
When I first came to the Doak House Museum in Greeneville, Tennessee, one of my first tasks was to learn the tour script. The couple who built [...]