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AASLH Emerging History Professionals Group Welcomes New Committee Members
The AASLH Emerging History Professionals Affinity Community is please to announce five new committee members joining the EHP Committee for the 2017-2019 [...]
Creative Audience Engagement Techniques from Award Winners
If your organization is looking for creative ways to engage your audience, here are four Leadership in History Awards winning projects with some [...]
What You Can Do on Summer Vacation
Did you ever have to write the typical “What I Did on Summer Vacation” essay on the first day of school? It [...]
Bringing Women’s History into the Classroom: The 2016 George Washington Teacher Institute
Since 1999, the George Washington Teacher Institute at Mount Vernon provides teachers across the country with historical thinking skills and [...]
War and Peace: Following the Footsteps of the Huron-Wyandot
On Wednesday, September 14 from 8:30am-5 pm, attendees of the AASLH/MMA 2016 Annual Meeting in Detroit will have the chance to [...]
100 Cities/100 Memorials Will Help Restore & Preserve Local WWI Memorials Across US
The U.S. World War I Centennial Commission and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library have announced a new program to [...]
Seven Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in July
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 [...]
Built for Speed
Archives aren’t exactly designed for speed. But as I read recently about the Smithsonian’s rapid capture process for the digitization of collections, I see another [...]
Saving our Sacred Places – Endangered Churches in the United States and What One Group is Doing to Preserve Them
19th Street Baptist Church in Philadelphia, PA Across the country, many places of worship are falling in disrepair. As church attendance and revenues [...]
Other Duties as Assigned: A Reflection on Museum Workplace Culture & Management
Since being named executive director six months ago, I’ve become more interested in reading about non-profit leadership. But these books frequently annoy me. We don’t have departments; [...]
In the Shadow of Kinzua: The Seneca Nation of Indians Since World War II
From 1960 through 1965, the construction of the Kinzua Dam in the Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania spared thousands from devastating flood damage, provided hydroelectric [...]
AASLH Receives Grant from The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, a charitable organization dedicated to enriching the quality of life in the 40 Middle Tennessee counties it serves, announces [...]
The Moton School Story: Children of Courage
The Robert Russa Moton Museum breaks new ground with the exhibit The Moton School Story: Children of Courage. This exhibit seeks to expand the ethnic [...]