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 with some [...]
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 school? It [...]
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 after it [...]
Getting Schooled in History Relevance by Hamilton
By Bethany Hawkins, AASLH I am really late to the party. I just listened to the Hamilton: An American [...]
The Legacy of Dime Museums and the Freakshow : How the Past Impacts the Present
This article was originally published in the Autumn 2013 issue of History News magazine. You can read the article in PDF format [...]
A Guide to Women’s History at the 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting
Mark your schedules! In one month, the 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting will begin. Here is a guide to Women’s History sessions [...]
House or Home? Rethinking the House Museum Paradigm
Wheelwright House, Strawbery Banke Museum At their best, historic sites and house museums provide meaningful and personal touchstones [...]
San Marino: A Centennial History
San Marino, a small Southern California city with a richly layered past, celebrated its centennial year in 2013. The book San Marino: A Centennial History [...]
From Brown to Meredith: The Long Struggle for School Desegregation in Louisville, KY, 1954-2007
From Brown to Meredith: The Long Struggle for School Desegregation in Louisville, Kentucky, 1954-2007 tells the local history of people struggling to achieve diversity and [...]
The Civil War in Pennsylvania: The African American Experience
The Civil War in Pennsylvania: The African American Experience explores the roles that African Americans played as active participants in their quest for freedom, nationhood, [...]
Witches of Pennsylvania: Occult History and Lore
During the 17th century, the draw of religious freedom led large numbers of Germans to William Penn’s colony where their belief in folk magic and [...]
The Historic Tibbals House – 1842
The city of Erie, Pennsylvania has long had troubles with preserving historic buildings and sites. One of those buildings, the Tibbals House, was in danger [...]
Northern Lights: The Stories of Minnesota's Past
In 2013 the Minnesota Department of Education implemented new academic standards for social studies requiring that all Minnesota sixth graders complete a year-long course of [...]