Historical Archives

• Tenure, Promotion, and the Publicly Engaged Academic Historian (updated 2017)

  Current standards for evaluating historical scholarship for tenure and promotion do not reflect the great variety of historical practice undertaken by faculty members, including a growing body of publicly engaged and collaborative scholarship.

• Standards for Part-Time, Adjunct and Contingent Faculty (2011)

  At its semi-annual meeting on June 4-5, 2011, in Washington, DC, the Council of the Association voted to endorse the following standards for part-time, adjunct and contingent faculty, which were prepared by the Organization of American Historians' Committee on Part-time, Adjunct and Contingent Employment (CPACE).

• Gutenberg-e Program (1999-2008)

• The Status of Women in the Historical Profession (2005)

  The Committee on Women Historians designed and administered a survey to gather information on women historians’ experience of gender in their professional lives and their assessments of policies that have encouraged or impeded their progress both in their institutions and through the ranks of the profession.

• Retrieving the Master's Degree from the Dustbin of History (2005)

• Report on the Status and Hiring of Women and Minority Historians in Academia (2004)

• Public History, Public Historians, and the American Historical Association (2004)

• The Education of Historians for the Twenty-first Century (2004)

• Questions Regarding the Policy Statement on Institutional Review Boards (2003)

• Standards for Employment of Part-Time Faculty (2003)

  It is important to halt the erosion of tenure track positions, and where possible to increase them. It is equally important to improve the working conditions and lives of part-time/adjunct faculty and their ability to support student learning.

• Who Is Teaching in US College Classrooms? A Coalition on the Academic Workforce Study of Undergraduate Faculty (1999)

• Working Together to Strengthen History Teaching in Secondary Schools (1998)

• Guidelines for the Employment of Part-Time and Temporary Faculty in History (1998)

  (Approved by AHA Council, June 1, 1998) Given the ramifications of this widespread trend in the employment of historians, the AHA seeks to ensure that cost-driven reliance on part-time and temporary faculty does not undermine the quality of education in history.

• Why Study History? (1998)

• Statement on Intellectual Diversity by the Coalition of History Editors for Publishing in the Future (1998)

• Statement of Priorities (1997)

• Redefining Historical Scholarship (1993)

• AHA Statement on Discrimination and Harassment in Academia (1991)

• Guidelines for AHA-Sponsored Regional Teaching Conferences (1989)

• Why Study History? (1985)

• Committee on Women Historians' 1980 Summary Report (1980)

• The FBI Files: A Challenge for Historians (1980)

  From the March 1980 issue of the AHA Newsletter

• Report of the American Historical Association Committee on the Rights of Historians (1974)

• The AHA Review Board: Final Report (1973)

• The AHA Review Board: A Preliminary Report (1972)

• The American Revolution Bicentennial and the Papers of Great White Men (1971)

  From the November 1971 issue of the AHA Newsletter

• Report of the American Historical Association Committee on the Status of Women (1970)

• Professional Comment and Controversy (1970)

  From the June 1970 issue of the AHA Newsletter

• Minutes of the Annual Business Meeting, December 28-29, 1969

  Annual Meeting

• On the Education of Historians in the United States (1963)

• The Education of Historians in the United States (1962)

• American History in Schools and Colleges (1944)

• Final Report of the Committee of Ten on Reorganization and Policy (1939)

• Letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the AHA (1934)

• Historical Scholarship in America: Needs and Opportunities (1932)

• The Writing of History (1926)

• The Study of History in Schools (1898)

• The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893)

• The Requirements for the Historical Doctorate in America (1893)

• First Meeting of the American Historical Association (1884)