Three Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in April
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates in April! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations (StEPs) is AASLH’s self-study standards program [...]
What Public Historians Can Learn from Fourth Graders
Ranger Nick Sacco with a group of Fourth Graders at Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site. All photo credits go to [...]
Grant Funding for Sacred Places from the National Fund for Sacred Places
Mokuaikaua Church in Kailua-Kona, Big Island, Hawaii, USA. Photo by Stelios Michael. From prairie churches to urban cathedrals and synagogues, historic [...]
Meet a Member: Terri Blanchette
Meet a Member is a regular blog series spotlighting our members. AASLH has 5,500 fascinating members working hard for the field [...]
Dodge vs. Ford: The Ways They Lived and Worked (#AASLHMMA2016 Tour Spotlight)
Dodge vs. Ford: The Ways They Lived and Worked is a tour option at the 2016 AASLH/MMA Conference in Detroit [...]
Navy Unveils National Museum of the American Sailor
NAVAL STATION GREAT LAKES, Ill. – The Great Lakes Naval Museum was officially renamed the National Museum of the American Sailor [...]
Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities Plans to Launch New Historic Preservation Continuing Education Program
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities at Rutgers University–Camden is launching a new continuing education program in September 2016. [...]
How can you assign a price to a docent program?
“Sorry Dorothy… but here’s your pink slip. You’ve been useful for the last 38 years but your volunteer services are no longer needed.” Okay, so [...]
Session Proposal: Received
For weeks you worked via email and phone conversations to develop the best conference session proposal you could. You successfully got it submitted just before [...]
AASLH Program Committee – A Newbie’s Perspective
On January 17, I started my day with a group of people—most of whom I have never met—to decide which proposals out of 126 would [...]
Together We Can Listen – Incorporating Evaluation Pt. 2
Building the capacity for evaluation at a historic house museum can be a daunting task but has long-term, positive impact on programming and visitation. As [...]
Is it a Drum? Or a Drum? Homonyms in Nomenclature 3.0
Homonyms are words that share the same spelling but have different meanings. For example, a "drum" can be a percussive musical instrument, or a container [...]
Cultural Continuity: Armenia’s Ethnic Church’s Presence in U.S. Communities
Several years ago I spent significant time in the Republic of Armenia (2009-2011) studying the language and learning about and from the Armenian people. During [...]