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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1880s

Andrew Dickson White (1884)

On Studies in General History and the History of Civilization

1880s

Andrew Dickson White (1885)

The Influence of American Ideas upon the French Revolution

1880s

George Bancroft

On Self-Government

1880s

Justin Winsor

Manuscript Sources of American History: The Conspicuous Collections Extant

1880s

William F. Poole

The Early Northwest

1880s

Charles Kendall Adams

Recent Historical Work in the Colleges and Universities of Europe and America

1890s

John Jay

The Demand for Education in American History

1890s

William Wirt Henry

The Causes Which Produced the Virginia of the Revolutionary Period

1890s

James B. Angell

The Inadequate Recognition of Diplomatists by Historians

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