Records of the American Historical Association
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Records of the American Historical Association
Correspondence, minutes of meetings, manuscripts of published and unpublished articles, reports, notes, resolutions, legal briefs, membership cards and lists, administrative files, subject files, financial records, printed matter, and other records reflecting the association's history and its development of programs stimulating scholarly historical research and other activities.
Subjects include the role of the association's boards and commissions including the Commission on the Social Studies, Committee on Women Historians, Historical Service Board, and Public Archives Commission; relations with various professional associations including the American Council of Learned Societies, American Economic Association, American Political Science Association, Social Science Research Council (U.S.), and Society of American Archivists; establishment of the American Historical Review and its relations with Macmillan Company; encouragement of various writing projects such as the Dictionary of American Biography, Guide to Historical Literature, and Writings on American History; awards promoting historical scholarship; archival activities at the state and federal level such as training of archivists and museum curators, publication of guides to archival resources, and construction of the National Archives and Records Service building; the protection of members of the historical profession in their pursuit of scholarship, teaching at the secondary level as reflected in the establishment of the Service Center for Teachers of History, and cooperation in various government publications.
Individuals represented include Thomas Perkins Abernethy, Herbert B. Adams, Charles McLean Andrews, Thomas Andrew Bailey, Frederic Bancroft, George Bancroft, Charles A. Beard, Mary Ritter Beard, Carl L. Becker, Samuel Flagg Bemis, Herbert Eugene Bolton, Solon J. Buck, Alfred LeRoy Burt, Avery Craven, Merle Curti, William Archibald Dunning, John King Fairbank, Sidney Bradshaw Fay, Guy Stanton Ford, Worthington Chauncey Ford, Dixon Ryan Fox, Leo Gershoy, Charles Gibson, Louis Reichenthal Gottschalk, Lewis Hanke, Albert Bushnell Hart, Carlton J.H. Hayes, J. Franklin Jameson, Waldo Gifford Leland, Arthur S. Link, Dumas Malone, Ernest R. May, Donald R. McCoy, William Hardy McNeill, Frederick Merk, Samuel Eliot Morison, Richard B. Morris, William Alfred Morris, Dana Gardner Munro, Frank Lawrence Owsley, R.R. Palmer, J.H. Parry, Frederic L. Paxson, Louis Pelzer, Dexter Perkins, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, David H. Pinkney, Julius W. Pratt, Charles W. Ramsdell, J.G. Randall, James Harvey Robinson, Arthur M. Schlesinger (1888-1965), Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Robert Livingston Schuyler, Charles Seymour, Boyd C. Shafer, H. Morse Stephens, Frederick Jackson Turner, Arthur Preston Whitaker, and Gordon Wright.
ArchivalResource:
364,000 items. 1,155 containers plus 1 oversize. 464.4 linear feet.
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