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AASLH Holds Annual Business Meeting and Introduces New Council Leaders and Members
The American Association for State and Local History held its annual business meeting on Friday, November 4.During the meeting: John Dichtl, president and CEO, gave an update on the state of the association and the field. Council treasurer Becky Beaulieu presented a...
Episode 342: Elizabeth Ellis, The Great Power of Small Native Nations
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/benfranklinsworld/342_Ellis.mp3 Did you know that small Native American nations had the power to dictate the terms of French colonization in the Gulf South region? Elizabeth Ellis, an Assistant Professor of History at Princeton...
The Trust Transfer Project and CultureRx: Social Prescription
11.01.2022 Käthe Swaback. Program Officer CultureRx Creative Approaches for Health and Wellness in Springfield, MA You Art Not Alone by Cora Swan “How do we center the wisdom of people who are not typically understood as experts, but are very proximate to the issues...
Card to Culture: A Stone Soup Story
10.31.2022 Greg Torrales, Program Coordinator Card to Culture Over 5 years, 300+ cultural organizations have provided 780K free or discounted admissions to cultural experiences Cast of Once on This Island at SpeakEasy Stage Company. Photo: Nile Scott Studios. Although...
Meet You at the Basque Block in Boise at the 2023 Annual Conference
The 2023 AASLH Annual Conference will be held in Boise, Idaho, September 6-9, 2023. In this post, Annie Gavica gives an overview of the “Basque Block,” the center of Boise’s large Basque population and a unique part of the city’s diversity. Session proposals for next...
Help Shape Our Strategic Plan
10.27.2022 Dawn Heinen, Digital Communications Manager Complete a stakeholder survey by November 10 Mass Cultural Council is currently undertaking a strategic planning process which will establish goals and shape the Agency’s direction for the coming years. We’re...
2022 Governor’s Awards in the Humanities a Success
From left, Mass Humanities Board Chair, Dr. Yves Salomon-Fernández, Honoree Fredric Rutberg, Honoree Frances Jones-Sneed, Honoree Callie Crossley and Mass Humanities Executive Director Brian Boyles. On Sunday, Oct 23 over 150 Mass Humanities friends and supporters...
Episode 341: Mairi Cowan, Possession and Exorcism in New France
https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/benfranklinsworld/341_Cowan.mp3 Prepare for tricks, treats, and time travel! In honor of Halloween, we’re traveling back to the mid-seventeenth century to investigate a case of demonic possession...
The Power of Place: My Experience at the AASLH Conference
Historic marker describing an Underground Railroad stop in Niagara Falls.By Cathy Runnels, George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural and Genealogy Center, Austin, TX It was by chance that I happened to see the American Association for State and Local History...
The Pre-Registration Deadline for the 2022 Virtual Conference is Wednesday
The pre-registration deadline for the 2022 Virtual Conference is this Wednesday! Registration is only $60 for AASLH members and $80 for non-members. Registration includes access to all live sessions, recordings of all general and concurrent sessions, and networking....
Accessible Job Pipelines
10.21.2022 Charles G. Baldwin, Program Officer Diversity Equity and Inclusion Beat drummers from BFAIR at CATA’s 2019 Annual Performance. Photo: Christina Lane. Mass Cultural Council’s Universal Participation (UP) Initiative stewards a Community of Practice to...
Join Us at the Table in Boise for the 2023 AASLH Annual Conference
“I, Too, Am America” is the theme of the 2023 AASLH Annual Conference, which will be held in Boise, Idaho, September 6-9, 2023. The theme is taken from Langston Hughes’ poem “I, Too,” which was published in 1926, the 150th anniversary of the United States. In the...
Westborough Center Pastimes – October 21, 2022
The following essay inaugurates a new Westborough History Connections series called, “A Meeting of Two Cultures: Native Americans and the English in Westborough.” Seasonal Change and the Meeting of Two Cultures The shocks of short-lived color in the trees, the sudden...
Visitation to History Organizations Increased in 2021 — But There’s a Long Way to Go
This week, the American Association for State and Local History Public History Research Lab is excited to publish our fourth annual National Visitation Report. This annual assessment of in-person visitation trends at history organizations provides a snapshot look at...
Tips for Small Museums from an AASLH Award Winner
My organization has an average annual budget of about $200,000. With a part-time staff of four, it can often feel like showy exhibits, big project implementations, and progressive programs are not something we can accomplish. However, in 2021 we opened a permanent...
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