by American Association for State and Local History | Sep 13, 2021 | Beyond the Commonwealth, History News, The Profession
By Casey Wooster, Chair of AASLH Emerging History Professionals Affinity Committee In the words of Lorelei Lee in the 1949 musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, “I learned an awful lot in Little Rock, and here’s some advice I’d like to share. . .” With the upcoming AASLH...
by American Association for State and Local History | Aug 24, 2021 | History News
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Staton BreidenthalBy Kathleen Pate, National Archives and Records Administration, Little Rock, AR August 26th marks the 101st anniversary of the 19th amendment being officially added to the Constitution. Outside of March, Women’s Equality Day...
by American Association for State and Local History | Aug 23, 2021 | History News
Historic home in Little Rock’s Quapaw Quarter. (LRCVB)By Elizabeth Stewart, Renton History Museum & AASLH Small Museums Committee One of the unexpected benefits of eighteen months of global pandemic is that we have had to throw out all our old assumptions—what...
by American Association for State and Local History | Aug 19, 2021 | History News
By Bethany Hawkins, AASLH Chief of Operations If this is your first AASLH Annual Meeting or you just want some help choosing from the great line-up of sessions this year, we are happy to offer some suggestions. These sessions were chosen from the program and grouped...
by American Association for State and Local History | Jun 17, 2021 | History News
This article is from the upcoming Spring 2021 issue of History News, AASLH’s quarterly magazine. Members can access the full issue in the Resource Center later this month. By Adrienne Fikes When meeting someone new, civil rights grassroots organizer Ella Baker loved...
