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American Historical Association (AHA)
www.historians.org
From the AHA website: The American Historical Association (AHA) is a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1884 and incorporated by Congress in 1889 for the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical documents and artifacts, and the dissemination of historical research. As the largest historical society in the United States, the AHA provides leadership and advocacy for the profession, fights to ensure academic freedom, monitors professional standards, spearheads essential research in the field, and provides resources and services to help its members succeed. The AHA serves more than 14,000 history professionals, representing every historical period and geographical area. AHA members include K-12 teachers, academics at two- and four-year colleges and universities, graduate students, historians in museums, historical organizations, libraries and archives, government and business, as well as independent historians.
Organization of American Historians (OAH)
www.oah.org
From the OAH website: The Organization of American Historians, founded in 1907 as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, is the largest professional organization for the investigation, study and teaching of American History. It serves a membership of 11,000 college and university professors, high school teachers, students, archivists, public historians, and institutional subscribers such as libraries, museums, and history societies, as well as individual and institutional foreign members. Each quarter, the organization publishes the Journal of American History, the OAH Newsletter, and the quarterly OAH Magazine of History. The Annual Meeting Program, mailed in January, highlights the events of the upcoming convention. All members receive electronic access to full-text, current issues of these publications.
National Council for History Education (NCHE)
www.history.org/nche
From the NCHE website: The National Council for History Education seeks as allies all who have a personal or professional interest in history in order to tackle the issues that concern them -- from curricular design, through standards and requirements, teacher education, certification and professional development, to assessment and new technologies. We have as our foundation the 1988 report by the Bradley Commission on History in Schools. Its overriding message was the need for much more time in the social studies curriculum, to liberate teachers to offer a more interactive, engaging kind of history that involved both critical and creative thinking. We initiate dialogue with policy-makers, emphasizing the importance of providing enough time in the curriculum for both world and U.S. history and for adequate support of good teaching and materials. We encourage and support regular communication between those who teach history in the schools and those who promote history in the community. We envision a communications network for all advocates of history education, whether in schools, colleges, museums, historical societies,humanities councils, or community organizations.