Talk:American Historical Association

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It's a pleasure to welcome a new editor to Wikipedia. Of course this is a critical encyclopedia and must represent all points of view--just like the AHR does. As an off-and-on AHA member for 40 years, I would suggest that the article has to include all aspects of what the organization has been doing. Saying the organization "largely defined the profession and practice of history over the past 125 years." seems flatly untrue; perhaps the membership was meant (but that stretches it some). Deleting a quotation from Arnita Jones ("Individual membership has for long been drawn significantly on tenured faculty members in higher education institutions, but the percentage of tenured and tenure-track faculty has shrunk over the years, with serious implications for our membership base.") seems to reduce the information content rather than add to it. Rjensen 18:56, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Er, the list of presidents say that the year given is the year of that president's presidential address. But our article text says (and my physical presence at the convention and memory of it supports the notion) that Sheehan gave his address at the 2006, and not at the 2005 convention. Does that mean the whole list is off by one? john k 19:39, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Should the page mention that in 2003 the AHA's Theodore Roosevelt- Woodrow Wilson Public Service Award was awarded to former KKK member Senator Robert Byrd? 162.84.133.162 (talk) 17:12, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Suggestions
Much to my surprise, although there are categories for these both, there is not a List of American historians or a List of historians of the United States. I dropped by this page because Canadian historian Robie Lewis Reid was a member of the AHA, and wanted to see if there was a Category:Members of the American Historical Association; looking at the presidents' list it's clear that it should have a subcategory Category:Presidents of the American Historical Association, perhaps with an intermediary "Officers of" category.Skookum1 (talk) 02:31, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Seemingly a Link goes to Wrong Person
Taken from caption of a picture on this article. Executive officers of the American Historical Association at the time of the association's incorporation by Congress, photographed during their annual meeting on December 30, 1889 in Washington, D.C. Seated (L to R) are William Poole, Justin Winsor, Charles Kendall Adams (President), George Bancroft, John Jay, and Andrew Dickson White, Standing (L to R) are Herbert B. Adams and C. W. Bowen.

If this meeting is in 1889 then the link to John Jay is the wrong John Jay. The link currently goes to John Jay the first chief justice of the supreme court of the united states. That John Jay died in 1829, and therefore, cannot be alive in a picture with Andrew Dickson White in 1889!.

Thanks Isa alcala (talk) 22:05, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

"Meringolo (2004)" citation
Is this the Meringolo source? Cited at her CV as “Capturing the Public Imagination: the Social and Professional Place of Public History.” American Studies International. June/October 2004, Volume 42, Numbers 2 and 3. Pages 86-117 Fishlandia (talk) 17:58, 10 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Okay, I see it and the Sheehan source down in the "Selected bibliography" section. Fishlandia (talk) 01:12, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Suggestion
I think it would be beneficial to add a section on publications by the society, such as the Americana. 107.122.173.104 (talk) 18:55, 30 June 2024 (UTC)