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Since the Association was founded in 1884, the Association's presidents have addressed the annual meeting on a topic of interest or concern to the profession. Since there is no set topic, the subjects treated have ranged widely from the role of history in society to the best practices of historians as writers, teachers, and social scientists. Each in their unique way represents a microcosm of the interests and concerns of the profession in various stages of its development over the past century.
AHA staff, with the assistance of JSTOR (which graciously supplied the basic electronic text for most of the presidential addresses between 1901 and 1990), and the staff of the American Historical Review (which has published the presidential addresses since 1901), is publishing the addresses as a service to all interested in tracing the changes in the profession, or just reading the words and ideas of some of the most esteemed members of the historical profession.
A
Adams, Charles F. (1901)
An Undeveloped Function
Adams, Charles K. (1889)
Recent Historical Work in the Colleges and Universities
of Europe and America
Adams, George Burton (1908)
History and the Philosophy of History
Adams, Henry (1893-94)
The Tendency of History
Andrews, Charles M. (1924-25)
- These Forty Years (Delivered in 1924 after death of Woodrow Wilson)
- The American Revolution: An Interpretation (1925)
Angell, James Burrill (1892-93)
The Inadequate Recognition of Diplomatists by
Historians
Appleby, Joyce (1997)
The Power of History
See her Perspectives articles
B
Bailyn, Bernard (1981)
The Challenge of Modern Historiography
Baldwin, Simeon E. (1906)
Religion still the Key to History
Bancroft , George (1885-86)
On Self Government
Beard, Charles A. (1933)
Written History as an Act of Faith
Becker, Carl Lotus (1931)
Everyman His Own Historian
Bemis, Samuel Flagg (1961)
American Foreign Policy and the Blessings of
Liberty
Bolton, Herbert Eugene (1932)
The Epic of Greater America
Bouwsma, William J. (1978)
The Renaissance and the Drama of Western History
Boyd, Julian P. (1964)
A Modest Proposal to Meet an Urgent Need
Breasted, James H. (1928)
The New Crusade
Bridenbaugh, Carl (1962)
The Great Mutation
Brinton, Crane (1963)
Many Mansions
Burr, George Lincoln (1916)
The Freedom of History
Bynum, Caroline Walker (1996)
Wonder
See her Perspectives articles
C
Channing, Edward (1920)
An Historical Retrospect
Cheyney, Edward P. (1923 )
Law in History
Coatsworth, John H. (1995)
Welfare
Cochran, Thomas C. (1972)
History and Cultural Crisis
Craig, Gordon A. (1982)
The Historian and the Study of International
Relations
Curti, Merle (1954)
Intellectuals and Other People
Curtin, Philip D. (1983)
Depth, Span, and Relevance
D
Darnton, Robert (1999)
An Early Information Society:
News and the Media in Nineteenth-Century Paris
See his Perspectives articles
Davis, Natalie Z. (1987)
History's Two Bodies
See her Perspectives articles
Degler, Carl N. (1986)
In Pursuit of an American History
Dodd, William E. (1934)
The Emergence of the First Social Order in the United
States
Dunning, William A. (1913)
Truth in History
E
Eggleston, Edward (1900)
The New History
F
Fairbank, John K. (1968)
Assignment for the '70's
Farrand, Max (1940)
The Quality of Distinction
Fay, Sidney B. (1946)
The Idea of Progress
Ferguson, William Scott (1939)
Polis and Idia in Periclean Athens
Fisher, George Park (1898)
The Function of the Historian as Judge of Historic
Persons
Ford, Guy Stanton (1937)
Some Suggestions to American Historians
Foner, Eric (2000)
American Freedom in Global Age
See his Perspectives articles
Ford, Worthington C. (1917)
The Editorial Function in United States History
Franklin, John Hope (1979)
Mirror for Americans: A Century of Reconstruction
History
G
Gibson, Charles (1977)
Conquest, Capitulation, and Indian Treaties
Gottschalk, Louis (1953)
A Professor of History in a Quandary
Greene, Evarts Boutell (1930)
Persistent Problems of Church and State
H
Hanke, Lewis (1974)
American Historians and the World Today: Responsibilities
and Opportunities
Harlan, Louis R. (1989)
The Future of the American Historical Association
Hart, Albert Bushnell (1909)
Imagination in History
Haskins, Charles H. (1922 )
European History and American Scholarship
Hayes, Carlton J. H. (1945)
The American Frontier-Frontier of What?
Henry, William Wirt (1891)
The Causes which Produced the Virginia of the
Revolutionary Period
Herlihy, David (1990)
Family
Hoar, George Frisbie (1895)
Popular Discontent with Representative Government
Holborn, Hajo (1967)
The History of Ideas
Holt, Thomas C. (1994)
Marking: Race, Race-making, and the Writing of
History
Hunt, Lynn (2002)
The World We Have Gained: The Future of the French Revolution
See her Perspectives articles
I
Iriye, Akira (1988)
The Internationalization of History
J
Jameson, J. Franklin (1907)
The American Acta Sanctorum
Jay, John (1890)
The Demand for Education in American History
Jusserand, Jean Jules (1921)
The School for Ambassadors
K
Kerber, Linda K. (2006)
The Stateless as the Citizen's Other
See her Perspectives articles
L
Lane, Frederic C. (1965)
At the Roots of Republicanism
Langer, William (1957)
The Next Assignment
Larson, Laurence M. (1938)
Passed away before the completion of his term
Latourette, Kenneth Scott (1948)
The Christian Understanding of History
Lea, Henry Charles (1903)
Ethical Values in History
Leuchtenburg, William E. (1991)
The Historian and the Public Realm
Link, Arthur S. (1984)
The American Historical Association, 1884-1984:
Retrospect and Prospect
Louis, W.M. Roger (2001)
The Dissolution of the British Empire in the Era of Vietnam
See his Perspectives articles
M
Mahan, Alfred Thayer (1902)
Subordinaton in Historical Treatment
McIlwain, Charles (1936)
The Historian's Part in a Changing World
McLaughlin, Andrew C. (1914)
American History and American Democracy
McMaster, John Bach (1905)
Old Standards of Public Morals
McNeill, William H. (1985)
Mythistory, or Truth, Myth, History, and Historians
McPherson, James M.
No Peace without Victory, 1861–1865
See his Perspectives articles
Miller, Joseph C. (1998)
History and Africa/Africa and History
See his Perspectives articles
Morison, Samuel E. (1950)
Faith of a Historian
Morris, Richard B. (1976)
"We the People of the United States": The Bicentennial
of a People's Revolution
Munro, Dana C. (1926)
War and History
N
Neilson, Nellie (1943)
The Early Pattern of the Common Law
Nevins, Allan (1959)
Not Capulets, Not Montagus
Nichols, Roy F. (1966)
History in a Self-Governing Culture
P
Palmer, R. R. (1970)
The American Historical Association in 1970
Paxson, Frederic L. (1938)
The Great Demobilization
Perkins, Dexter (1956)
We Shall Gladly Teach
Pinkney, David H. (1980)
American Historians on the European Past
Poole, William F. (1887-88)
The Early Northwest
Potter, David M. (1971)
Passed away before the completion of his term
R
Randall, James G. (1952)
Historianship
Read, Conyers (1949)
The Social Responsibilities of the Historian
Rhodes, James Ford (1899)
History
Robinson, James Harvey (1929)
The Newer Ways of Historians
Roosevelt, Theodore (1912)
History as Literature
Rostovtzeff, Michael I. (1935)
The Hellenistic World and Its Economic
Development
S
Schlesinger, Arthur M. (1942)
"What Then Is the American, This New Man?"
Schmitt, Bernadotte E. (1960).
"With How Little Wisdom..."
Schouler, James (1897)
A New Federal Convention
Schuyler, Robert L. (1951)
The Historical Spirit Incarnate: Frederic William
Maitland
Sheehan, James J. (2005)
The Problem of Sovereignty in European History
See his Perspectives articles
Sloane, William M. (1911)
The Substance and Vision of History
Smith, Goldwin (1904)
The Treatment of History
Spence, Jonathan D. (2004)
Cliffhanger Days: A Chinese Family in the Seventeenth Century
See his Perspectives articles
Spiegel, Gabrielle M. (2008)
See her Perspectives articles
Stephens, H. Morse (1915 )
Nationality and History
Storrs, Richard Salter (1896)
Contributions Made to our National Development by Plain
Men
Strayer, Joseph R. (1971)
The Fourth and the Fourteenth Centuries
T
Taylor, Henry Osborn (1927)
A Layman's View of History
Thayer, William R. (1918-19)
Vagaries of Historians
Thompson, James Westfall (1941)
The Age of Mabillon and Montfaucon
Thorndike, Lynn (1955)
Whatever Was, Was Right
Tilly, Louise A. (1993)
Connections
Turner, Frederick J. (1910)
Social Forces in American History
See his Perspectives articles
U
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2009)
See her Perspectives on History articles
W
Wakeman, Frederic E., Jr. (1992)
Voyages
Webb, Walter Prescott (1958)
History as High Adventure
Weinstein, Barbara (2007)
Developing Inequality
See her Perspectives articles
Wertenbaker, Thomas J. (1947)
The Molding of the Middle West
Westermann, William L. (1944)
Between Slavery and Freedom
White, Andrew Dickson (1884-85)
- On Studies in General History and the History of Civilization (1884)
- On The Influence of American Ideas upon the French Revolution (1885)
White, Lynn, Jr. (1973)
Technology Assessment from the Stance of a Medieval
Historian
Wilson, Woodrow (1924)
Passed away before the completion of his term
Winsor, Justin (1886-87)
Manuscript Sources of American History: The Conspicuous Collections Extant.
Woodward, C. Vann (1969)
The Future of the Past
Wright, Gordon (1975)
History as a Moral Science
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