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Ready and Rarin’ to Go Explore Women’s History in Austin!
Photograph of the march from Seneca Falls to the National Women’s Conference in Houston, 1977. Join us in Austin for [...]
#AASLH17 Sessions: Community Engagement and Teacher Professional Development
As we prepare for the 2017 Annual Meeting in Austin, the Educators and Interpreters Affinity Group Committee is trying an experiment. We’re giving presenters who are [...]
Out of Storage and into the Classroom: Enriching the Curriculum with a Campus Archive
Naomi Niemann (Class of 2019) shares her work digitizing and transcribing an unpublished manuscript by Edward Beecher, first president of Illinois [...]
54 AASLH Members Receive Over $5 Million in IMLS Grants
54 AASLH member institutions were awarded prestigious Museums for America grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). [...]
Nine Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in September
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program [...]
Advocacy Alert: IMLS Reauthorization Introduced in Congress
IMLS Reauthorization Introduced in Congress Contact Your Senators Today Last week, Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) introduced S. 3391, the Museum [...]
Change and Grow or Shut Your Doors: A Volunteer-Run Museum’s Conference Takeaway
Kathy McDonald, President and Curator of the Sebastian Area Historical Society, was awarded a scholarship to attend the 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting. [...]
Irish Sheet Music Archives Website
The Irish Sheet Music Archives website project was envisioned to not only give global access to the nearly 6,000 pieces of sheet music in the [...]
Traveling 219: The Seneca Trail
Inspired by the "history from the bottom up" tradition of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), Traveling 219: The Seneca Trail collects and documents stories from [...]
Carl Sandburg in Elmhurst
Carl Sandburg in Elmhurst at the Elmhurst Historical Museum focuses on the author’s life from 1919-1928 when he and his family lived in Elmhurst, Illinois, [...]
A Brave Soldier and Honest Gentleman: Lt. James E. H. Foster in the West, 1873-1881
A Brave Soldier and Honest Gentleman: Lt James E. H. Foster in the West, 1873-1881 tells the story of Lt. James E. H. Foster and [...]
The Dred Scott Family and the National Debate Over Slavery
The Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) launched the History Live interactive videoconferencing program to connect its historical and educational resources with a wider audience, especially students. [...]
Emancipating Cliveden
Built in 1767 in Philadelphia as a summer retreat for the wealthy Chew family, the Cliveden house bears the marks of the bloody Battle of [...]