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Frederick Law Olmsted in Buffalo
Cazenovia Park By Bethany L. Hawkins, AASLH Chief of Operations April 26 is the 200th birthday of the famed [...]
How Civic Season Can Help History Organizations Serve the Next Generation
The American Association for State and Local History is a partner of Made By Us, an initiative of history and civics [...]
NCPH and AASLH Publish First-of-its-Kind Report on Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment in History Organizations
Today, the National Council on Public History (NCPH) and AASLH are releasing a first-of-its-kind report on the prevalence of gender discrimination [...]
Understanding the New Valuing History Collections Position Paper
By AASLH Standards and Ethics Committee The AASLH Standards and Ethics Committee has compiled FAQs to help explain the [...]
Field Services Alliance Tips: Re-opening Museums During COVID-19
By Laura Casey, Museum Services Coordinator, Texas Historical Commission, Austin, TX The Problem: The arrival of COVID-19 in January [...]
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 [...]
The Economy of the Annual Meeting
By Bethany Hawkins, COO, AASLH If you just registered for the upcoming AASLH Annual Meeting in Kansas City to secure the early bird rate, or [...]
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 [...]