AASLH Launches Speak Up for History

The history and museum community needs advocacy but often struggles with where to begin. What does advocacy look like for the country’s thousands of small and mid-sized organizations, so often strapped for time, money, staff, and other resources? This is where AASLH’s new state and local advocacy effort, Speak Up for History comes in. This initiative offers a hub for tools, guidance, and programming to help practitioners more effectively demonstrate the value of history work to their communities. To kick off this new effort, AASLH is offering an introductory manual, Speak Up for History: Getting Started in Local Advocacy, available either as an online booklet or as a downloadable PDF. You can also participate in an in-person workshop at AASLH’s upcoming annual conference and in our October 20 webinar on the basics of local advocacy. Learn more about the overall initiative here.