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14 AASLH Members Receive Over $2.5 Million in NEH Grants
This month the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $18.6 million in grants for 199 humanities projects. “These new [...]
A Student Advocate’s Perspective on Museums Advocacy Day 2018
Museums Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C. in February was an extremely eye-opening experience in the field I plan to dedicate my life [...]
NEH Offers Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions
The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Division of Preservation and Access has offered Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions since 2000. These [...]
Baby Boom II: Motherhood and Museums One Year Later
To my astonishment, Baby Boom: Motherhood and Museums has consistently been one of the most popular AASLH blog posts since [...]
Networking for Emerging History Professionals
Talking to other history professionals at the 2015 AASLH Annual Meeting Although museum/history professionals may not face the [...]
5 Citizen History Projects You Should Know About (Part 1)
With the ubiquity of the internet, crowdsourcing help, resources, and artifacts has been an effective way for libraries, museums, institutes, [...]
Same Skills, New Tech: Social Media Lessons from a 1967 AASLH Technical Leaflet
Image by Queens of Vintage At AASLH, we don't like to reinvent the wheel. We are constantly looking [...]
The Civil War in Pennsylvania
As part of PA Civil War 150, the statewide commemoration of Pennsylvania’s role in the Civil War, the Heinz History Center, with support from the [...]
The Big Graph
Over the past several years, programming at Eastern State Penitentiary has increasingly addressed contemporary corrections and the recent, truly historic changes in the United States [...]
The Scripture Rocks: Why Douglas Stahlman Carved His Legacy in Stone
Local legends abound about the mysterious engraved rocks frequently encountered in the wooded hillsides around Brookville, Pennsylvania. Although many local residents were aware of the [...]
TG&Y: An Original Oklahoma Icon
Through photographs, narrative, hands-on material, and loaned artifacts, TG&Y: An Original Oklahoma Icon revealed the history of a small town variety store in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, [...]
3 Ways You Can Advocate for History Today
Caucus for History: Contact your Representative (today, by email!) and ask them to join the Congressional History Caucus. It was founded by Congressmen John Larson [...]
Digital Transitions at John Deere
Digital records, digital access, digital preservation. It’s complicated and hard to do, but accessibility is incredibly rewarding. But it’s also important to remember that not [...]