History Discovery Event Resource Organizations

Planning or hosting a History Discovery Event and want to learn about similar projects and/or consult with available resources?

You might find great allies in some of these organizations. 

The people of Calumet, Michigan and Keweenaw National Historical Park, commemorate a tragedy that occurred in the midst of a bitter copper miners strike.

• National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers (NCSHPO) – includes a directory of State Historic Preservation Officers (SHPOs)
• National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (NATHPO) - includes a directory of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (THPOs)
• Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) List of Federal Historic Preservation Officers (FPOs)
• State Historical Societies
  • Alabama Historical Association
  • Alaska Historical Society
  • Arizona Historic Society
  • Arkansas Historical Association
  • California Historical Society
  • History Colorado
  • Connecticut Historical Society
  • Delaware Historical Society
  • Florida Historical Society
  • Georgia Historical Society
  • Hawaiian Historical Society
  • Idaho State Historical Society
  • Illinois State Historical Society
  • Indiana Historical Society
  • State Historical Society of Iowa
  • Kansas Historical Society
  • Kentucky Historical Society
  • Louisiana Historical Society
  • Maine Historical Society
  • Maryland Historical Society
  • Massachusetts Historical Society
  • Historical Society of Michigan
  • Minnesota Historical Society
  • Mississippi Historical Society
  • State Historical Society of Missouri
  • Montana Historical Society
  • Nebraska State Historical Society
  • New Hampshire Historical Society
  • New Jersey Historical Society
  • Nevada Historical Society
  • Historical Society of North Carolina
  • State Historical Society of North Dakota
  • Ohio History Connection
  • Oklahoma Historical Society
  • Oregon Historical Society
  • Historical Society of Pennsylvania
  • Rhode Island Historical Society
  • South Carolina Historical Society
  • South Dakota State Historical Society
  • Tennessee Historical Society
  • Texas State Historical Association
  • Vermont Historical Society
  • Virginia Historical Society
  • Washington State Historical Society
  • West Virginia Archives and History
  • Wisconsin Historical Society
  • Wyoming State Historical Society
• American Association for State and Local History (AASLH)
• Organization of American Historians (OAH)
• National Council on Public History (NCPH)
• International Coalition of Sites of Conscience
• National Park Foundation (NPF)
  • African American Experience Fund
  • American Latino Heritage Fund
• Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Association for the Study of African American Life and History
• National Museum of the American Indian
• National Trust for Historic Preservation
• National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites
• GLBT Historical Society Archives and Museum
• Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
• Civil War Trust
• National Council for the Social Studies
• NPS National Heritage Areas Office
• NPS Telling All Americans' Stories
• Alliance of National Heritage Areas
• Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (at George Mason University)
• American Memory Section of the Library of Congress
  • Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress
  • Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscape Survey (HABS/HAER/HALS) records in the Library of Congress
• NPS National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT)
• Society for Historical Archaeology
• Society for American Archaeology

If your History Discovery Event includes working with primary sources, the National Archives and Records Administration has useful Document Analysis Worksheets for different media, from maps to artifacts, photographs to audio recordings.