Presidential Addresses by Name
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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 (1924; delivered after the 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
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
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
Cronon, William (2012)
Storytelling
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 Eighteenth-Century Paris
Davis, Natalie Z. (1987)
History’s Two Bodies
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 ’70s
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
Foner, Eric (2000)
American Freedom in Global Age
Ford, Guy Stanton (1937)
Some Suggestions to American Historians
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
Goldstein, Jan (2014)
Toward an Empirical History of Moral Thinking: The Case of Racial Theory in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France
Gottschalk, Louis (1953)
A Professor of History in a Quandary
Grafton, Anthony (2011)
The Republic of Letters in the American Colonies: Francis Daniel Pastorius Makes a Notebook
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
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
Jones, Jacqueline (2021)
Historians and Their Publics, Then and Now
Jusserand, Jean Jules (1921)
The School for Ambassadors
K
Kerber, Linda K. (2006)
The Stateless as the Citizen’s Other
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
Lindemann, Mary (2020)
Slow History
Link, Arthur S. (1984)
The American Historical Association, 1884–1984: Retrospect and Prospect
Louis, Wm. Roger (2001)
The Dissolution of the British Empire in the Era of Vietnam
M
Mahan, Alfred Thayer (1902)
Subordinaton in Historical Treatment
Manning, Patrick (2016)
Inequality: Historical and Disciplinary Approaches
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, John R. (2019)
Peak Document and the Future of Historical Research
McNeill, William H. (1985)
Mythistory, or Truth, Myth, History, and Historians
McPherson, James M. (2003)
No Peace without Victory, 1861–1865
Metcalf, Barbara D. (2010)
Islam and Power in Colonial India: The Making and Unmaking of a Muslim Princess
Miller, Joseph C. (1998)
History and Africa/Africa and History
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
Muir, Edward W. (2023)
Conversations with the Dead
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
Norton, Mary Beth (2018)
History on the Diagonal
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
Pomeranz, Kenneth (2013)
Histories for a Less National Age
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
Ruiz, Vicki (2015)
Class Acts: Latina Feminist Traditions, 1900–30
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
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
Spiegel, Gabrielle M. (2008)
The Task of the Historian
Stephens, H. Morse (1915)
Nationality and History
Storrs, Richard Salter (1896)
Contributions Made to our National Development by Plain Men
Stovall, Tyler (2017)
White Freedom and the Lady of Liberty
Strayer, Joseph R. (1971)
The Fourth and the Fourteenth Centuries
Sweet, James H. (2022)
Slave Trading as a Corporate Criminal Conspiracy, from the Calabar Massacre to BLM, 1767–2022
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
U
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher (2009)
An American Album
W
Wakeman, Frederic E., Jr. (1992)
Voyages
Webb, Walter Prescott (1958)
History as High Adventure
Weinstein, Barbara (2007)
Developing Inequality
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