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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 profession. 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 profession in various stages of its development over the past century.
AHA staff, with the assistance of JSTOR (which graciously supplied the basic electronic text for most of the presidential addresses between 1901 and 1990), and the staff of the American Historical Review (which has published the presidential addresses since 1901), is publishing the addresses as a service to all interested in tracing the changes in the profession, or just reading the words and ideas of some of the most esteemed members of the historical profession.
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 (Delivered in 1924 after 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 .
See her Perspectives articles
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.
See her Perspectives articles
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.
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 Nineteenth-Century Paris .
See his Perspectives articles
Davis, Natalie Z. (1987)
History's Two Bodies.
See her Perspectives articles
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 '70's.
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.
Ford, Guy Stanton (1937)
Some Suggestions to American Historians .
Foner, Eric (2000)
American Freedom in Global Age.
See his Perspectives articles
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.
Gottschalk, Louis (1953)
A Professor of History in a Quandary.
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.
See her Perspectives articles
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.
Jusserand, Jean Jules (1921)
The School for Ambassadors.
K
Kerber, Linda K. (2006)
The Stateless as the Citizen's Other
See her Perspectives articles
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.
Link, Arthur S. (1984)
The American Historical Association, 1884-1984:
Retrospect and Prospect .
Louis, W.M. Roger (1984)
The Dissolution of the British Empire in the Era of Vietnam .
See his Perspectives articles
M
Mahan, Alfred Thayer (1902)
Subordinaton in Historical Treatment.
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, William H. (1985)
Mythistory, or Truth, Myth, History, and Historians.
McPherson, James M.
No Peace without Victory, 1861–1865.
See his Perspectives articles
Miller, Joseph C. (1998)
History and Africa/Africa and History.
See his Perspectives articles
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
See his Perspectives articles
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 .
See his Perspectives articles
Spiegel, Gabrielle M. (2008)
See her Perspectives articles
Stephens, H. Morse (1915 )
Nationality and History .
Storrs, Richard Salter (1896)
Contributions Made to our National Development by Plain
Men.
Strayer, Joseph R. (1971)
The Fourth and the Fourteenth Centuries.
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 .
See his Perspectives articles
W
Wakeman, Frederic E., Jr. (1992)
Voyages.
Webb, Walter Prescott (1958)
History as High Adventure.
Weinstein, Barbara (2007)
Developing Inequality.
See her Perspectives articles
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 .
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