Announcing the 2022 AASLH Leadership in History Award Winners
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) proudly announces the winners of the 77th annual Leadership in History Awards, [...]
Rick Hill is the 2022 AASLH Annual Conference Keynote Speaker
The 2022 AASLH Annual Conference takes place this September in Buffalo, New York, which is on the unceded lands of the [...]
AASLH Annual Conference Registration Now Open
Registration for the 2022 Annual Conference is now open! Register Here We hope you will join us in-person in Buffalo, [...]
Where Are Our Think Tanks?
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis This is what you shall do…re-examine all you have been told at school [...]
Measuring Social Impact to Make Social Changes: Learn How To Get Involved
By Michelle A. Mileham, Ph.D., Project Manager, Measurement of Museum Social Impact (MOMSI), Utah Division of Arts and Museums [...]
Introducing the AASLH Public History Research Lab
By John Marks, Director, Public History Research Lab and Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives Conducting and sharing research about the [...]
Research Brief: What a New Report Reveals about History in American Life
By John Marks, Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives Late last year, the Humanities Indicators Project of the American Academy of [...]
AASLH Announces Election Slate for Council and Leadership Nominating Committee
We are proud to announce the slate of candidates for four spots on the AASLH Council and three spots on our Leadership Nominating Committee. The Council [...]
Three Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in May
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program designed specifically [...]
Public History in a Social Service Agency: The House on Henry Street Exhibition Connects Staff and Neighbors with Their Past
By Katie Vogel, Public Historian, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY There is a resonance between the past and present that invigorates the current work [...]
An Invitation to #AASLH2019
This August 28-31, the joint American Association for State and Local History and International Coalition of Sites of Conscience Annual Meeting will convene in Philadelphia [...]
AASLH 19th Amendment Centennial Value Statement
Pictured here is Annie Sybil Thomas Jarret at the Republican National Convention in either the 1940s or 1950s held in Chicago. Jarret was an [...]
Improving Exhibits, One Step at a Time
By Sara Francis, Glenwood Springs Historical Society & Frontier Museum, Glenwood Springs, CO I am grateful to AASLH for awarding me the New Professionals scholarship [...]