We provide resources for history lovers, professionals, volunteers, and enthusiasts. AASLH provides crucial resources, guidance, professional development, advocacy, new publications, field-wide research, and a sense of connectedness to over 5,500 institutional and individual members, as well as leadership for history and history organizations nationally. It is the only comprehensive national organization dedicated to state and local history.

Our Professional Development offerings—including the Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations (STEPS), History Leadership Institute, webinars, online courses, workshops, and Technical Leaflets—are designed for busy professionals, volunteers, and students. We do everything we can to make it easy for you to fit growth into your schedule.

Each year a wide variety of history practitioners gather at the AASLH onsite Annual Meeting for a participator and transformative four days of learning, collaboration, networking, and inspiration. The AASLH Annual Meeting is known for practical sessions, takeaways galore, hallway conversations, unmatched evening events, new life-long friendships, intensive workshops, and the inspiration that comes from being around other history-doers. AASLH also offers an Online Conference a few weeks after the in-person meeting. While the two conferences share the same theme, they aim to serve overlapping but distinct audiences. The Online Conference reaches far beyond those who can attend the in-person, on-site Annual Meeting.

AASLH provides many different publications for the field. Through our quarterly magazine History News, Technical Leaflets, book series, and our blog, we publish on a wide range of topics and issues to serve history practitioners. Special joint-publication projects, such as Nomenclature and the Inclusive Historian’s Handbook, have become more important in recent years. From investigations of critical issues to how-to guides, and everything in between, AASLH uses our different publication outlets to advance historical practice and the field.

AASLH offers programs that support our members’ practice of history. Our programs connect you to colleagues across the country who have new approaches and new ideas. Whether you’re looking to learn a new skill or fundamentally transform your organization, AASLH has programs to help you interpret history, engage your community, broaden your impact, and make the past more meaningful.