What It’s Like to Work with a Marketing Agency on Your Annual Fundraiser
The annual fundraiser at the Napa Valley Museum Year after year museums and historical societies and countless other nonprofit organizations [...]
AASLH Response to Federal History Funding Cuts
Dear Members and Friends of AASLH, Yesterday, May 23, President Trump sent a FY2018 budget request to Congress that would drastically cut [...]
23 AASLH Members Receive Over $4 Million in NEH Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $21.7 million in grants for more than 200 humanities projects [...]
Pittock Mansion Historic House Museum Sees Record-Breaking Attendance of 100,000 + Annual Visitors
“At a time when many historic house museums across the country are experiencing declining visitation, Portland, Oregon's Pittock Mansion has [...]
2016 AASLH Online Conference Open for Registration
Can’t make it to Detroit but still want to participate in the AASLH Annual Meeting? Join us at the Online Conference [...]
Detroit’s Island Jewel: A Tour of Belle Isle Park
Belle Isle postcard courtesy of Detroit Historical Society Belle Isle Park is Detroit’s island jewel. The city-owned and [...]
There’s Still Time to Join the Blue Star Museums Program This Summer
Summer is definitely here, but it’s not too late to join the Blue Star Museums program. Sponsored by the NEA [...]
War Comes to the Mississippi Delta
War Comes to the Mississippi Delta was developed by the Museum of the Mississippi Delta to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the Civil War as it [...]
Following the Tracks of the Underground Railroad in Warren County
The diverse population living in Warren County, Ohio in the decades leading up to the Civil War made the area a hot bed of political, [...]
Torn Within and Threatened Without: Kentuckians in the Civil War Era
In preparing for their Civil War sesquicentennial, the Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) board decided to move beyond simply commemorating the conflict. Instead, the organization wanted [...]
Watergate: Political Scandal & the Presidency
As the 40th anniversary of the Watergate scandal approached, staff at the North Carolina Museum of History realized that a comprehensive exhibit about Watergate and [...]
The Left Front: Radical Art in the "Red Decade," 1929-1940
In the wake of the stock market crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression, artists united with writers and other cultural producers to make [...]
Kent State University May 4 Visitor Center
On May 4, 1970, thirteen students at Kent State University were gunned down while protesting the nation’s war activities. This day forever changed the landscape [...]