Docents as Museum Professionals: Lessons from the Amory Regional Museum
By Bryan Mathison, Senior Library Associate at Mississippi State University and Docent/Research Associate at the Amory Museum The city of Amory, [...]
Get to Know Boise’s Rich History with These Books and Documentaries
By Bethany Hawkins, AASLH Chief of Operations The 2023 AASLH Annual Conference will be held in Boise, Idaho, on September 6-9. [...]
Help Your Organization and the Field: Respond to the 2023 National Visitor Survey
The fifth annual American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) “National Visitation Survey for History Organizations” is now accepting responses! [...]
Read the Annual Update on the Semiquincentennial
The Semiquincentennial, or 250th anniversary, of the founding of the United States is now just four years away! This [...]
Are Historians Ready For The Semiquincentennial?
By Lia Warner, NYU Graduate Summer Fellow This July 4th will mark the four-year countdown to the 250th anniversary [...]
Making Individual Membership More Valuable
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) is making changes and adding benefits to our basic Individual [...]
Small Museums Recover from the Pandemic
By Elizabeth P. Stewart and members of the AASLH Small Museums Committee: Jacqui Ainlay-Conley, Sean Blinn, Ann Bennett, Laura [...]
The Emerging History Professional’s Guide to #AASLH2020
By Iliana Morton, AASLH Emerging History Professionals Committee There’s something magical about conferences, especially as an Emerging History Professional. From networking to learning to [...]
Why the Low Registration Rate for the Conference?
By John Dichtl, AASLH President & CEO When COVID came, the idea of an onsite 2020 conference had to go away. AASLH postponed its [...]
Small Museums Strong at 2020 AASLH Annual Meeting
The Lula Dorsey Museum at the YMCA of the Rockies in Colorado will share their volunteer program ideas in a prerecorded conference session. [...]
What Kind of Ancestor Will You Be?
By Omar Eaton-Martínez, AASLH 2020 Annual Meeting Program Chair Like many of you, I was disappointed in not being able to fellowship with you [...]
“Making Friends with Belly Dancers”: Q&A with a Small Museum in El Paso
By Laura Casey, Texas Historical Commission and AASLH Small Museums Affinity Community Q&A with Jeff Harris of the Magoffin Home State Historic Site, Small [...]
Authenticity and Authority: The Role of Historic Sites
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis Historic house museums, historic sites, and history museums constitute the largest class of museums in a nation rich [...]