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What You Can Learn from 7 Theme Fusion Success Stories
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Five Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in October
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates in the last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program [...]
Building Relationships in a Small Community
When I heard the AASLH Annual Meeting was going to be in Austin, Texas in September, I knew I had to figure [...]
StEPs Spotlight: Cleveland Grays Armory Museum
By Aja Bain, AASLH, and Mary Beth Rauzi and Mary Manning, Cleveland Grays Armory Museum Exciting changes are happening at the 960 [...]
Finding Ways to Channel a Passion for History and Museums after Leaving the Field
In 2012, I made a difficult but necessary decision. After six years of undergrad and graduate school followed by an [...]
An Outward Museum: Building Community at the Levine Museum of the New South
Photo by James Willamor Museums serve in a unique yet vital manner as stewards of humanity’s cultural heritage. [...]
We Are at the Center of What It Means to Be Americans: A Letter from the AASLH Council Chair
Dear Members, AASLH is helping lead our local and national discussions about the importance of historic context, the value of content [...]
Recognizing the Rainbow: The National Park Service’s Quest to Include LGBTQ Americans in Telling All Americans’ Stories
Tim Gill, founder of the Gill Foundation, holds up a copy of the 1200 page theme study at the [...]
Are You Ready to Remember the Ladies?
Welcome! Since launching this year for Women’s History Month, we’ve been hard at work formalizing our structure and communications to the group, building a strong [...]
Community Curators: A New Level of Volunteering
Volunteers are essential to any organization and department, especially in museums. All of us have used volunteers to lend an extra hand in many things, [...]
The Art of Being an Intern
A few years ago, I was at my internship at the Raupp Museum, a small historical society in suburban Chicago, when my supervisor returned from [...]
Nomenclature 4.0 – Available For Pre-Order
Order Nomenclature 4.0 for Museum Cataloging directly through Rowman & Littlefield Ordering Nomenclature 4.0 The Nomenclature Task Force is pleased and excited to [...]
Spirituality After Religion
During the course of a week I wear many hats, including those of: history professional, who examines and interprets the past; museum futurist, who tracks emerging [...]
Public History Employer Survey
Even as job prospects for historians have improved with the passing of the Great Recession, questions about the overall health of public history remain. [...]