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Crowdsourcing Transcription and Creating Community
Are you seeking a way to involve community members and schools and, as a bonus, make your document collections easily accessible? To [...]
Georgia Historical Society Honors Robert L. Brown, Jr.
AASLH Member Georgia Historical Society Honors Robert L. Brown, Jr. with John Macpherson Berrien Award “In grateful recognition of a lifetime of achievement [...]
AASLH Announces IMLS Grant to Improve Our Continuing Education Program
We are excited to announce that AASLH is the recipient of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to improve and [...]
The Power of (Re-)imagination: Promoting Self-Care in the Workplace
Caitlin Williams was awarded a Small Museums Scholarship to attend the 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting. You can learn more about the [...]
Grappling with Unfolding Events
This article was originally published in the Summer 2016 issue of History News magazine, the official publication of AASLH. You can read the [...]
Her Hat Was In The Ring: How Digital Collections Can Transform Our Understanding of the Past
Amid all the discussions about the unprecedented campaign for U.S. president by a woman candidate, it is important to have [...]
A Pivotal Moment in Our History: A Century of Women’s Rights Work and the 2016 Election
Hillary Clinton receives the Alice Award in 2009. Photograph by Doug DeMark. “I want young girls and boys [...]
Banking on Accuracy in Nomenclature
Finding the correct term in nomenclature can be challenging, especially because many terms appear to be similar at first glance. However, there are more specialized [...]
New Leadership in Place at AASLH
May 1, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY NEW LEADERSHIP IN PLACE John Dichtl Assumes New Post as President/CEO Nashville, [...]
Sounds of Silence
Grady Mcferrin, The Driveway Moment, 2009 What are the sounds of your historic house museum? I thought about this the other day as [...]
Advice for the Next USPS Historian
Greetings! My name is Jenny Lynch, and I'm the historian of the United States Postal Service. I worked in the USPS Historian's Office for twenty [...]
Save the Date for the 2015 AASLH Annual Meeting
Save the Date! 2015 AASLH Annual Meeting Louisville, Kentucky September 16-19 Registration Opens by June 1 Nothing can replace the opportunities that arise when you [...]
“We” vs. “Them”
I was recently reading an article from Lapham's Quarterly, "They," that discusses the political and psychological aspects of how people group themselves and then react [...]