Presidential Addresses

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 discipline. 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 discipline in various stages of its development over the past century.

Presidential Biographies

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2000s

James M. McPherson

No Peace without Victory, 1861–1865

2000s

Jonathan Spence

Cliffhanger Days: A Chinese Family in the Seventeenth Century

2000s

James J. Sheehan

The Problem of Sovereignty in European History

2000s

Linda K. Kerber

The Stateless as the Citizen’s Other: A View from the United States

2000s

Barbara Weinstein

Developing Inequality

2000s

Gabrielle M. Spiegel

The Task of the Historian

2000s

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

An American Album, 1857

2010s

Barbara D. Metcalf

Islam and Power in Colonial India: The Making and Unmaking of a Muslim Princess

2010s

Anthony Grafton

The Republic of Letters in the American Colonies: Francis Daniel Pastorius Makes a Notebook

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