American Association for State and Local History
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The American Association for State and Local History is a national nonprofit serving history organizations and professionals since 1940.
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Planning a trip to DC this fall? Beginning in September, you will no longer need a timed entry pass for weekdays at the
@NMAAHC
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"
@NatlParkService
data suggest that Americans are not ignoring historic sites, but rather visiting those that tell more relevant and engaging histories."
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Please read our statement regarding an incident this past Friday at the Memphis Museum of Science and History.
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We are thrilled to announce that we've received a major grant from
@MellonFdn
to start work on an amazing project with the
@FrameWorksInst
,
@ncph
and
@The_OAH
!
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"Thanks to a mapping company's clever approach to Google Maps, it's possible to learn which native tribes once inhabited your neighborhood."
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We need a more productive public conversation about history. Today, we're excited to share "Reframing History," a new resource to help the field more effectively communicate what history is and why it matters. Read the report and download the toolkit:
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US museums enjoy nearly twice as many visits per year as all major sporting events and theme parks combined.
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You never know who you’ll run into when advocating for museums! President and CEO
@jdichtl
got a chance to speak briefly with the legendary
@repjohnlewis
about the value of history and museums.
#MuseumsAdvocacy2018
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Together with
@ncph
, we are excited to announce the debut of The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook, a co-sponsored digital resource designed to center inclusivity, diversity, equity, and public service in public history work. Read IHH at
#inclusivehistory
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Good news: small museums are leading the way in terms of visitation growth! What can your site learn from these small-but-mighty institutions?
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The Inclusive Historian's Handbook launches tomorrow! We can't wait to share this open digital resource with you. 🎉🎉🎉
#InclusiveHistory
#InclusiveHistorian
#PublicHistory
#Twitterstorians
@ncph
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Please read our statement in response to recent events at The Montpelier Foundation, which manages President James Madison's home in Virginia.
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"Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age" -- free PDF BOOK download from UCL Press!
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Exciting news from Detroit! The former home of Dr. Ossian Sweet, a black Detroit doctor whose murder trial galvanized the fair housing movement in the United States, will be preserved and restored.
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Good news! NEA, NEH, IMLS, and Smithsonian all receive modest funding boosts under new budget agreement
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“If the gold fork was good enough for former President James Buchanan, I think it is good enough for Tabby.” - Abe Lincoln defending his decision to feed his cat, Tabby from the table in the presence of guests.
#Catsgiving
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Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko died on Jan. 21 after struggling with cancer. A fund has been created to memorialize her impact on museums and public history. The fund will be used to advance her legacy of transformational change across our field. Donate at .
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"But archives in their very nature are political. The responsibility and the job of an archivist now is so much more than just processing papers. There’s more social accountability and responsibility."
@sightlinesmag1
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"Somewhere in the Sahara desert, as the clock struck 8:09 a.m., Félicette’s rocket blasted off."
It's
#Catsgiving
! To celebrate, we're sharing our "furrvorite" historical felines, starting with Felicette, aka Astrocat.
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"Meet Nearest Green, the Tennessee slave who taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey."
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.
@NatlParkService
has announced $1.657M in grants to 16 Indian tribes and 15 museums to assist in the consultation, documentation, and repatriation of ancestral remains and cultural items as part of
#NAGPRA
.
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AASLH statement on this weekend's events in Charlottesville, VA.
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Medgar Evers house in Mississippi, the state's first home site honoring a modern Civil Rights leader, is designated a National Historic Landmark.
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As more and more historic sites fear the "Instagram hordes," the United States Lighthouse Society is embracing social media adventurers instead.
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The New Orleans African American Museum, shuttered for six years, will have its grand reopening tonight! 🎉🎉🎉
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"The first museum in the world solely dedicated to the evolution, celebration and future of human rights, the stunning space is filled with fascinating exhibits that really make you think – and maybe even act."
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Due to current events, this webinar on sharing authority w/ local immigrant communities is now FREE.
Now open for registration: Sharing Authority and Building Relationships with Your Communities Webinar
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Minnesota's first African-American museum is coming to north Minneapolis.
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As
#AASLH2019
draws to a close, we are grateful, inspired, and humbled by attendees' passion and dedication to our field. We hope your conversations here will challenge and invigorate your work at home, and we can't wait to see what you do next. Safe travels, everyone!
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"Making History at 250: The Field Guide for the Semiquincentennial" is now available! The guide will help the history community develop inclusive, transformative programs in the lead-up to the 250th anniversary in 2026. Get it at .
#MakingHistory250
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New on the Blog: "We found that 81% of respondents ranked history museums & historic sites as “absolutely” or “somewhat” trustworthy—more trustworthy than history textbooks & nonfiction, high school history teachers, and the internet."
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All AASLH staff are safe after the tornado in Middle TN last night. Our thoughts go out to all those affected. Cultural heritage sites in the affected area can find helpful disaster resources from HENTF here:
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President & CEO
@jdichtl
and External Relations Coordinator
@johngmarks
are spending the day advocating for museums on Capitol Hill as part of
#MuseumsAdvocacy2018
!
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Small museum, big experiences: how we can all learn from the variety and challenges of smaller institutions.
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"The museum recently installed tents outside of the charred building to hold a temporary outdoor exhibition of pieces from its collection that were stored in other facilities in Brazil, totaling around 1.5 million objects."
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Congrats to Lonnie Bunch on his well-deserved and historic appointment as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
@smithsonian
!
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Efforts underway to digitize 377 Native treaties at the National Archives and Records Administration
@USNatArchives
:
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Our Women’s History Affinity Group is developing a 2020 Suffrage Value Statement, with best practices and principles for the upcoming 19th Amendment centennial. Add your comments to the survey here!
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“County historical societies, typically known as dry and dusty repositories of yellowing paper and artifacts from pioneer days, are reinventing themselves for the smartphone generation and for baby boomers who prefer hands-on experiences.”
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"A somber reminder of slavery has been found hiding in plain sight at some of South Carolina’s historic sites: The fingerprints of slaves left by accident in bricks."
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@mohistorymuseum
just wrapped up a 3-day live tweet of 1917 East St. Louis race riots. Great ex of how history orgs could be using Twitter.
It's time we recognize that East St. Louis is America too—and that its past, present, & future are all closer than we realize.
#ESTLRiot100
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Best of luck to to AASLH staffer
@hannah_rfh
who is leaving AASLH to do a Fullbright in Iceland to study Icelandic museum culture!
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"At a time when we are—or should be—trying to diversify the museum and public history field, why are we not lowering barriers?"
Perspectives on internal and public accessibility at museums from
@alimab
.
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We are proud to present the latest issue of History News! This issue, produced entirely by Emerging History Professionals, is being presented free of charge to the AASLH community. Read it here:
@Lyndhurst_Group
@hannah_rfh
@HistorianHope
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Excited to announce the release of "Why Old Places Matter" in partnership with
@SavingPlaces
! Head over to our Facebook page to enter the drawing for a free copy. 📚🏛️📚
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AASLH is in DC with
@AAMers
for Museums Advocacy Day for the 10th straight year. Not only are museums essential cultural and social institutions, they’re economic engines! We’re excited to help spread that message on Capitol Hill.
#MuseumsAdvocacy2018
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"The statue of Tubman leading a slave girl to freedom, by Emmy and Academy Award winning sculptor Wesley Wofford, is the first installment of the soon-to-be open Harriet Tubman Museum."
@HarrietMuseum
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Why Free Museums Matter: "to chip away at the stigma that museums belong to some people, and not others"
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Saw a job
#museums
job description yesterday that included "Good sense of humor" as a requirement. I think we all know that's accurate.
In this darkest of timelines, museums trying to one-up each other in a
#CreepyBabyTweetOff
is the weird fun we need. 👶👀
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Say goodbye to your happy plantation narrative: "Over the last ten years, Cheyney McKnight has built a career as a living historian who embodies black lives, rather than just black trauma, in her interpretations of slavery."
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"Who would have thought using baked goods as a platform to talk social justice was a thing? And yet, the attention it has garnered is exactly what we need to start dialog and to impart enlightenment."
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Today, instead of a holiday party, AASLH staff spent time together volunteering
@nashfoodproject
, a great nonprofit serving our city.
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"I like what I do. I like my field. And because of that, I want to know that I will, in turn, be appropriately compensated for my work." Bravo,
@ncph
!
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🎵 The
@Motown_Museum
is throwing virtual dance parties every Friday night on their Instagram page. See you there! 🎵
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“History has been written by people who got it wrong, but the people who are always trying to get it right have prevailed. If that were not true, I would still be a slave like my great-grandmother.”
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The Library of Congress has made 25 million digital catalog records available for anyone to use at no charge.
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A statement from AASLH supporting the critical and open examination of the past.
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There are more than 21,500 history organizations in the United States! That makes history the largest segment of the museum field many times over. There are more history organizations than public libraries, Starbucks, McDonald's, & Walmarts! Learn more at .
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Join us tomorrow for a webinar on African American women's suffrage, presented by
@marthasjones_
! 3pm ET/2pm CT
#BlackHistoryMonth
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Thousands of undelivered letters from 1650-1815, seized at the time by the British from enemy ships, to be digitized and shared online.
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"We believe every American should be able to see themselves, their history, and their potential in both our collective story and our national landscape."
@SavingPlaces
announces the African-American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.
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"Most museums understand that in order to remain relevant, they will have to find a way to diversify their audiences. But many have not figured out how—or made it enough of a priority."
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Forgotten trove of Civil Rights history turns up in Montgomery courthouse vault.
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Exciting things are on the horizon with a new digital resource from
@AASLH
and
@ncph
for centering equity, inclusion, diversity, and service in your work!
#publichistory
#inclusivity
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To mark the launch of this project, we’ll be holding a major event at
@amhistorymuseum
on 2/26, w/
@ClintSmithIII
,
@marthasjones_
, and
@Jorge_Zamanillo
. Learn more and RSVP for the livestream at .
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AASLH is in the process of developing a clearer, stronger policy regarding our approach to internship listings in the AASLH Career Center.
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"[Rosie the Riveter] simply had nothing to say to me . . . That was a white woman's story," says 96-year-old WWII Home Front park ranger Betty Reid Soskin.
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We're thrilled to announce this year's Leadership in History Award winners, representing the most innovative and relevant history work being done across the country at institutions large and small. Congrats! 🎉🎉🎉
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"Among the wax cylinders are songs and spoken-word recordings in 78 indigenous languages of California."
UC Berkeley Uses Optical Scanning to Recover Indigenous Voices from Wax Cylinders
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Does your site struggle with interpreting slavery? Check out these insightful and practical tips shared at
#AASLH18
by reps from
@JMMontpelier
,
@InterpSlavery
,
@TJMonticello
,
@collectivejrnys
, and
@slavedwelling
!
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Stunning photos of Cincinnati's restored Union Terminal, now home to several incredible museums under one roof
@CincyMuseum
.
#preservation
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Exciting Nomenclature announcement!
"Users will no longer need to purchase a book or electronic file to stay current with this cataloging standard."
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The White House Historical Association
@WhiteHouseHstry
will host the 2018 Presidential Sites Summit in Washington D.C. this August, exploring the theme “Back to the White House.” Check out the schedule and register here!
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Last night's evening event
@TheWWIMuseum
was spectacular! Attendees also enjoyed a special night skyline view of Kansas City from the top of the tower.
#AASLH18
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Exhibit installation is more complicated than most people realize -- check out these tips and awesome behind-the-scenes photos from
@amhistorymuseum
!
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What kind of ancestor will you be? Program Committee is in Las Vegas this week, building the program for
#AASLH2020
!
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🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 There are (a record-breaking) 1,000 people already registered for
#AASLH2019
! What are you waiting for? 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉
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"[History] gives you the power of empathy, by opening up your eyes to other peoples’ stories, and allowing you to connect to their hopes, dreams and needs." Why history is good for you
@fernanderaine
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Nicely done,
@TheWWImuseum
! Pivoting staff to improving digital access to collections while the museum is closed.
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A great cartoon about the thought process behind museum label writing from
@berincole
. H/t
@dpmckenzie
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Looking for ways to lend a hand to our
#MuseumFriends
affected by
#HurricaneHarvey
? Ways to help found here:
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National History Day is great. If you want to know more about how your history org can get involved, see this post:
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"In the first of 5 articles about the Transcontinental Railroad anniversary, descendants of Chinese railroad workers share their hope for the recognition of their ancestors' labor."
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"Fundamentally, history teaches us that the world we live in is not natural or inevitable, but the result of human choices. And that is empowering—for it means the world of tomorrow is built from the fabric of our choices today.”"
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"When we don’t include women’s contributions to history, we’re teaching a story riddled with holes."
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Just launched! Women Also Know History, a searchable database to promote and support the work of women historians. 500+ profiles and counting!
#womenalsoknowhistory
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