At its meetings in Atlanta on January 4 and 7, 2007 (during the 121st annual meeting), the AHA’s Council reached the following decisions:
- Recommended (for approval at the Business Meeting) the reappointment of Roger Liddell of Ingalls and Snyder and C. Evan Stewart of Zuckerman Spaeder for five-year terms on the AHA’s Board of Trustees, which oversees AHA’s investments. The Business Meeting approved the reappointments.
- Accepted the independent auditors’ report on the AHA’s finances for fiscal 2005–2006.
- Approved the Conflict of Interest Statement for officers and employees as recommended by the auditor.
- Approved, as amended, official Resource Sharing Agreements with the National Coalition for History and the National History Center.
- Charged the Finance Committee to review ongoing financial oversight arrangements of the Association.
- Approved appointments as recommended by the Committee on Committees (see the complete list of committee members).
- Agreed that the should again meet jointly with the Professional, Teaching, and Research Divisions in June 2007 and that together they would further discuss a proposed constitutional change relating to the Council/Division structure.
- Approved the recommendation of the Teaching Division to endorse The Next Generation of History Teachers: A Challenge to Departments of History at American Colleges and Universities, a white paper prepared by Edward Ayers (Univ. of Virginia).
- Approved the Teaching Division’s request to support the addition of history—both U.S. and world—to the areas of assessment and accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act.
- Approved the text of the open letter to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, concerning Dr. Waskar Ari.
- Approved the Guiding Principles on Taking a Public Stance proposed by the Professional Division.
- Approved the Guidelines for Job Offers in History, proposed by the Professional Division.
- Approved the statement proposed by the Professional Division on the 2006 Florida Education Bill.
- Approved appointment of Felice Lifshitz (Florida International Univ.) as the chair of the 2009 Annual Meeting Program Committee.
- Accepted the resolution adopted at the Business Meeting on opposing the use of “Free Speech Zones” to Restrict Academic Freedom.
- Referred the resolution recommending that the AHA subscribe to the Informed Meetings Exchange (INMEX) to the executive director for further investigation prior to making a recommendation to the Council for its June 2007 meeting.
- Accepted the resolution on US government practices adopted at the Business Meeting, but because the resolution was not submitted before the November 1 Perspectives publication deadline, and also because of its intrinsic importance, agreed that its acceptance should be ratified by a majority of those voting in an e-mail ballot of the membership.
- Appointed Council members Frank Malaret to the Teaching Division and Larry Wolff to the Research Division.
- Approved the reinstatement of the category “Psychohistory” to the taxonomic list of research specializations.
