Need your help: history organizations and archives in Congressman Steve Driehaus' district

If you live or if your organization is in Congressman Steve Driehaus’ district (1st Ohio: central and western Hamilton and SW Butler counties), we need your help—and soon, by June 15!

On Wednesday, June 9, the American Assoc. for State and Local History (AASLH) is testifying on Capitol Hill on behalf of increased reauthorization for the National Historical Records and Publications Committee (NHPRC).

Your representative, Steve Driehaus (OH-1), is a member of the Information Policy, Census and National Archives Subcommittee that is hearing the testimony. AASLH has been asked to recruit letters from historical organizations in his district testifying to the need for increased NHPRC funding.  Letters should not necessarily be from those that have already benefitted from NHPRC, but rather from those that should or could – with increased funding.

And what can funding for the NHPRC do for you? To get right to the point, it’s a source of funding for you to pay for projects that preserve archival materials—documents, photographs, manuscripts, etc. If your historical organization or archives can use funding for projects such as these, write in support of increased funding to Congressman Driehaus’ office. For more information about the NHPRC and its grant programs, go to: http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/

Please fax your letters of support for increased funding for the NHPRC to Congressman Driehaus’ Washington D.C. office at 202-225-3012. If it’s convenient, please also email a copy to the Ms. Terry Davis, Director of the American Assoc. for State and Local History (davis@aaslh.org) and Anthony Clark at the U.S. House of Representatives (Anthony.clark@mail.house.gov)

For a copy of the testimony or a sample letter, please write to Andy Verhoff at averhoff@ohiohistory.org.

We hope you can make 5 – 10 minutes of your day available by June 15 to write to Representative Driehaus. Thanks!