Call for Papers: An Accessible Past: Making Historic Sites Accessible
By Heather Pressman, Molly Brown House Museum, Denver, CO History museums and historic sites are consistently the most visited type of [...]
Making the Invisible Visible: Neurodiversity and the Workplace
By Richard Josey, Collective Journeys LLC and Chair of AASLH’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee “If you are always trying to be [...]
Meeting Mentors at #AASLH2021
By Michelle Lopez, National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN As one of the recipients of the Douglas Evelyn Scholarship for Minority [...]
Sharing Authority After the Plague
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis Watching the President, Vice President, and assorted scientists and governors awkwardly "sharing authority" [...]
Inclusivity During COVID-19: Creating a New Norm
By Richard Josey, Chair, AASLH Diversity and Inclusion Committee This morning, I watched two white Carrollton, Georgia, teenagers in [...]
From Heirloom Harvests to Victory Gardens: Museums Feeding Communities During COVID-19
By Michelle Moon When spring rolls around, Eric Jackson, head gardener at Old Salem Museums & Gardens, is normally [...]
Relief and Research for History Organizations
As history organizations around the country adapt to the rapidly evolving public health situation, we'll be sharing resources and [...]
Coming Soon: Forgotten Fortunes
By Donovan Jacobs Does your state, county, city, or other region have a story about a historically important, valuable, or unusual object that has been [...]
A Crisis of Faith: Interpreting Leonard Bernstein’s Music and Religion
Photos courtesy of Jessi Melcer. By Barbara Franco, independent scholar, museum consultant, and co-editor of Interpreting Religion at Museums and Historic Sites (Rowman [...]
Explore Women’s History in Kansas City at #AASLH18!
Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration. By Megan Byrnes, incoming co-chair, AASLH Women's History Affinity Group Whether you are attending this [...]
Historic Prayers in Historic Churches
By Spencer W. McBride, Ph.D. One of my favorite historical sites to visit whenever I am in Philadelphia is Christ Church. Beyond its obvious architectural [...]
The Value of Small Museum Experience, or Why I Don’t Have a “Better” Job
By Aimee E. Newell, Ph.D., Executive Director, Luzerne County Historical Society, Wilkes Barre, PA I met someone a couple of months ago who, after I explained [...]
Educators and Interpreters Gearing Up for the Annual Meeting
By Megan Wood, Director of Museum and Library Services, Ohio History Connection and Chair, Educators and Interpreters Committee At the Annual Meeting this year, the Educators [...]