15 AASLH Members Receive Over $2.5 Million in NEH Grants
This month, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $24.7 million in grants for 208 humanities [...]
2021 AASLH Annual Report
AASLH is pleased to share our 2021 Annual Report with the field. Despite another year that was anything but predictable, our [...]
Top 5 Reasons Why Museums Close: Highlights from a conversation between Susana Bautista and Adam Rozan
By Adam Rozan Last year I caught up with Susana Bautista over Zoom to chat with her about her new book [...]
How Do You Document Nothing?
By Harry Klinkhamer The COVID-19 pandemic has gripped the nation and the world. It has shut down economies and [...]
Episodes of Change: A Long View of Museum-Making in America
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis The long-term impact of the pandemic on American museums is hard, if not [...]
AASLH Announces 2020 Election Slate for Council and Leadership Nominating Committee
We are proud to announce the slate of candidates for four spots on the AASLH Council, three Council officers, and [...]
The New 3 Rs: Resilience, Responsibility, and Risk
Image of 1963 March on Washington courtesy of the Library of Congress. By Avi Decter and Ken [...]
Nomenclature: Now Available Online!
By Heather Dunn, Canadian Heritage Information Network Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is a standard for classifying and naming objects in cultural collections. For over 40 [...]
Five Things Attendees Want You to Know Before Submitting a Session to #AASLH2019
The deadline for submitting sessions for the 2019 AASLH Annual Meeting in Philadelphia is December 7. Since we just wrapped up the 2018 Annual Meeting, [...]
Eight Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in October
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 [...]
AASLH Announces the HLI Class of 2018
By Max van Balgooy, HLI Director AASLH welcomes the Class of 2018 to the History Leadership Institute (HLI) next week in Indianapolis. HLI is a three-week residential [...]
Creativity Starts at Home
AASLH has long been the home for history. Our community brings together the curators, volunteers, administrators, educators, researchers, and many others who share the goal [...]
Humanities for All: Publicly-Engaged Humanities Database for History Organizations
A newly-launched database by the National Humanities Alliance, Humanities for All helps showcase how institutions of higher education have partnered with local cultural organizations throughout the [...]