At its meetings held June 3–4, 2006, in Washington, D.C., the AHA’s Council reached the following decisions.
- Approved the minutes of the Council’s meetings held on January 5 and 8, 2006, during the 120th annual meeting held at Philadelphia.
- Approved via the Council listserv the nominations for the 2006 Award for Scholarly Distinction and Honorary Foreign Member.
- Approved the budget for fiscal year 2007–08.
- Approved the composition of the Program Committee for the 122nd Annual Meeting to be held in January 2008 in Washington, D.C. The committee’s members will be: Nancy Tomes (SUNY-Stony Brook), chair; Peter Sigal (Duke Univ.), co-chair; Eric Avila (UCLA); Poshek Fu (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Pieter M. Judson (Swarthmore Coll.); Thomas M. Laichas (Crossroads School, Santa Monica, Calif.); Lisa A. Lindsay (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Asfaneh Najmabadi (Harvard Univ.); Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy (Univ. of Virginia); Jon F. Sensbach (Univ. of Florida); Laura Ackerman Smoller (Univ. of Arkansas at Little Rock); Daryle Williams (Univ. of Maryland at College Park)
- The 2009 chair and co-chair, who will be appointed in January 2007, will also serve on the committee.
- Approved exploration of creation of an African history book prize, which would recognize the most distinguished work of scholarship on African history published in English during the previous calendar year.
- Approved the change in the name of the Atlantic History Prize to the James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History.
- Agreed to the Teaching Division’s recommendation that the AHA establish minimum standards for teacher preparation of K–12 history teachers.
- Approved the four nominations to the Board of Editors of the American Historical Review: Toby L. Ditz (Johns Hopkins Univ.), Early America; Lloyd S. Kramer (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Modern European; Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard Univ.), Medieval; Jeffrey Wasserstrom (Univ. of California at Irvine), Asia
- Agreed that the executive director should begin exploration of relocating the AHA headquarters from its current location on Capitol Hill.
- Approved the addition of “Disability History” to the taxonomic list of research specializations and approved the deletion of “Psycho-history” from the list.
