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Crowdsourcing Slavery Interpretation Challenges
By Kristin Gallas, Interpreting Slavery Ever feel like there is a lot of potential that goes untapped at conferences? Let’s change that. [...]
Stopping Stones and the Slave Dwelling Project Are Coming to Kansas City
There are a couple of unique opportunities for attendees at the upcoming AASLH conference in Kansas City. These events are not officially [...]
Collections Management: Dispatches from the Trenches
By Nik Honeysett, CEO, Balboa Park Online Collaborative Beginning in November 2017, the Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC) contracted with LYRASIS to [...]
To Do Rightly: Congregations as Incubators of American Activism
Photo by Victor Manuel Ramos. Courtesy of Arch Street Meeting House. Last year, the Arch Street Friends Meeting [...]
Three Ways History Organizations Can Talk About Environmental History
Image from Ursus Among Us exhibit. Want to explore the intersection between the natural sciences and history at [...]
Volunteers Needed to Research and Write Biographical Sketches of Women Suffrage Activists
Women Suffragists picketing the White House, February 1917. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Since March 2015 [...]
#AASLH17 Current Issues Forum: Call for Participants
Want to have your voice heard at the 2017 AASLH Annual Meeting? Current Issues Forum (CIF) chairs are looking for [...]
Meet a Member: Sarah Sutton
Meet a Member is a biweekly blog series spotlighting our members. AASLH has 5,500 fascinating members working hard for the field of history, and we want [...]
3 AASLH Members Honored as Finalists for IMLS National Medal
The Institute of Museum and Library Services today announced 30 finalists for the 2016 National Medal for Museum and Library Service, including three AASLH institutional [...]
Why Focusing on Visitors Should Be Part of the Exhibit Planning Process
Many of us have played a role in creating a program or exhibit that we thought was going to be a home run, only to [...]
AASLH’s “Interpreting LGBT History” Wins 2016 NCPH Book Award
Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites (part of the AASLH Interpreting History Series) has been selected as the winner of the 2016 NCPH (National [...]
New Report Reveals Each Generation Less Likely to Visit Historic Sites Than the Last
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences’ Humanities Indicators (HI) project released a new report this morning on historic site visitation from 1989 to 2012. [...]
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington Welcomes New Curator from Germany
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington (AASLH Member since 1990) is pleased to introduce our new curator, Christiane Bauer. Christiane’s most recent work experience [...]