History

The American Association for State & Local History (AASLH) is an organization dedicated to connect and support researchers who are focused on state and local history. The organization hosts professional development workshops, advocacy, conferences, publications, and supports research.

The American Historical Association is the largest historical association in the world (with over 11,000 members), focusing on providing leadership for historians, upholding ethical standards for historians, and promote the work of historians. The organization is open to all historians in the U.S., and is not just for people focused on studying American history (the organization of people focused on U.S. history is the Organization of American Historians or OAH).

The Arizona Historical Society (AHS) serves as the steward of Arizona’s history. Their collections broadly represent Arizona history that offers a one-of-a-kind resource for Arizona history. The organization offers public programming, educational outreach, and exhibitions, as well as academic and community-based research.

The Aztec Museum is the local history museum of San Juan County. The museum focuses on the western settlement of San Juan County and the four corners. In addition to presenting the history of the county through building and artifacts, the museum hosts a number of historical events and talks at the museum.

Facing History and Ourselves is an initiative to create lesson plans and train teachers in the best ways to present history relating to racism, antisemitism, sexism, and homophobia. The site includes various sample lesson plans and free trainings relating to best practices for teaching difficult history. Many of the lessons focus on major activists and individuals.

The Historical Society of New Mexico is the society of historians in New Mexico and for historians who are focused on New Mexico history. Their mission is to mission is to increase and disseminate knowledge of New Mexico and the Southwest Borderlands history through research, publications, and educational outreach, as well as to encourage the preservation of historic objects and property. The organization does this through conferences, programs, grants, and historic plaques.

History Colorado is a branch of the Colorado State Government (under the Department of Higher Educations), which focuses on historic preservation and presentation of historical materials. The organization operates eleven museums and historic sites across the state of Colorado. The organization also hosts a free, public, resource center (Colorado’s Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation) for researchers to look into the state's history.

The purpose of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society is to promote the study of the history of immigration to the United States and Canada from all parts of the world, including studies of the background of emigration in the countries of origin as well as dealing issues of ethnicity in U.S. history. In addition to their newsletter and journal, the society works to create symposiums on immigration and ethnicity issues.

The National Coalition of History is a lobbying and advocacy group promoting the presentation and preservation of history. The organization works to support the National Archives/Library of Congress, promote freedom of research, and promote the declassifying of historical materials.

The National Council for History Education is a nonprofit professional organization that serves as a partnership between K-12 history teachers and professional historians. The organization elevates the importance of history teaching and learning through professional learning, community building, and advocacy.

In addition there are various state branches of the NCHE.

Public history is a branch of history that deals with historians who interact with the public, including those who work in universities, schools, libraries, archives and museums. The National Council on Public History inspires public engagement with the past and serves the needs of practitioners in putting history to work in the world by building community among historians, expanding professional skills and tools, fostering critical reflection on historical practice, and publicly advocating for history and historians.

The Oral History Association has served as the principal membership organization for people committed to the value of oral history. OHA engages with policy makers, educators, and others to help foster best practices and encourage support for oral history and oral historians. With an international membership, OHA serves a broad and diverse audience including teachers, students, community historians, archivists, librarians, and filmmakers.

Note: Not to be confused with the Oral History *Society* which performs a similar service, but in the U.K.

The Organization of American Historians (OAH) is the largest scholarly organization devoted to the history of the United States, and to promoting excellence in the scholarship, teaching, and presentation of that history. An international non-profit membership organization, the OAH has over 6,000 members who are university and college professors as well as individuals employed in a variety of scholarly and institutional settings, including libraries, museums, national parks, and historical societies.

The mission of the San Juan County Historical Society is to collect and preserve historical documents pertaining to San Juan County; preserve these documents for future generations and create a computerized database from these documents for legitimate research and scholarly endeavors. The San Juan County Historical Society's facility houses our collection of historical documents. Members and the community are welcome to call and make an appointment to conduct family and scholarly research. The society also hosts a number of chats throughout San Juan County and publishes books on San Juan County history.

The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) is an association of scholars dedicated to exploring the events and the meaning of United States history between 1776 and 1861. SHEAR’s mission is to foster the study of the early republican period among professional historians, students, and the general public. It upholds the highest intellectual standards of the historical profession and encourages the broad diffusion of historical insights through all appropriate channels.

The Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) is the largest scholarly group concerned with the archaeology of the modern world (A.D. 1400-present). The main focus of the society is the era since the beginning of European exploration. SHA promotes scholarly research and the dissemination of knowledge concerning historical archaeology. The society is specifically concerned with the identification, excavation, interpretation, and conservation of sites and materials on land and underwater. Geographically the society emphasizes the New World, but also includes European exploration and settlement in Africa, Asia, and Oceania. The organization also has ethical principles for the extraction and presentation of materials.

Previously named the American Military History Foundation and the American Military Institute, the Society for Military History s devoted to stimulating and advancing the study of military history. Its membership has included many of the world's most prominent scholars, soldiers, and citizens interested in military history. The organization hosts an annual conference, publishes a peer review military history journal, and awarded prizes to prominent scholars.

The Utah Historical Society (formerly Utah Division of State History) is a branch of the state of Utah's government, whose job it is to preserve and present the history of the state of Utah. The organization hosts a number of libraries, archives, and museums in the state as well as publish works on history.

The World History Association (WHA) is a professional association of scholars, teachers, and students organized to promote world history by encouraging teaching, research, publications, and personal interactions. The WHA brings together university professors, college and community college instructors, secondary school teachers, graduate students, and independent scholars in a collegial camaraderie rarely found in more narrowly focused academic and professional societies. Its mission remains the advancement of scholarship and teaching within transnational, transregional, and transcultural perspectives.