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The Organization of American Historians, founded in 1907 as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, is the largest professional organization for the investigation, study and teaching of American History. It serves a membership of 11,000 college and university professors, high school teachers, students, archivists, public historians, and institutional subscribers such as libraries, museums, and history societies, as well as individual and institutional foreign members.
Each quarter the organization publishes the Journal of American History, the OAH Newsletter, and the quarterly OAH Magazine of History. The Annual Meeting Program, mailed in January, highlights the events of the upcoming convention. All members receive electronic access to full-text, current issues of these publications. You also may choose to receive access via JSTOR to online, fully searchable back issues (1914 to 1999) of the JAH.
Journal of American History
For over eighty years, the JAH has been the leading scholarly publication in the field of American history. A major resource for students and scholars, it includes reviews of books, films, museum exhibits, and textbooks for teaching, as well as coverage of international scholarship on the U.S.
The History Cooperative
Your membership provides access to full text, current issues of the Journal of American History online at http://www.historycooperative.org.
OAH Magazine of History
If you selected a membership category which includes a subscription to the Magazine, you can expect each quarterly issue to focus on a theme or topic in American history and include informative articles, lesson plans, and current historiography.
OAH Newsletter
All members receive paper and online versions of the quarterly OAH Newsletter, which offers timely news of the organization, as well as essays and information on key issues and opportunities in the profession.
Annual Meeting
Join your colleagues for conversations on a broad range of issues, make professional contacts, and view the latest historical publications in the annual meeting exhibit hall which features nearly one hundred publishing houses. The meeting also includes Focus on Teaching sessions and a series of professional sessions for graduate students, and State-of-the-Field sessions providing overviews of developments in various areas of American history.
Recent Scholarship Online (RSO)
A rich, searchable database drawn from more than one thousand history-related journals, anthologies, and indexes, RSO will keep you up-to-date on new history books, articles, and dissertations.
Teaching
Since 1907, the organization has been committed to excellence in teaching, from universities to precollegiate classrooms to museums. The OAH Magazine of History and Teaching Units encourage the use of primary sources in the classroom. "Teaching the JAH" presents online tools to use the latest scholarly research in the Journal of American History in the U.S. survey course. OAH works on your behalf with foundations and other organizations to provide travel grants, professional development conferences, and other resources for history educators at all levels and in all settings.
Professional Advocate
OAH is a founding sponsor of the National Coalition for History and joins other cooperative efforts, including the National Humanities Alliance, that serve as a voice at national and state levels for historians and history educators. OAH also seeks respectful and equitable treatment of part-time/adjunct faculty and other historians.
Promotion of History
OAH encourages understanding and appreciation of history by the media, students, government, foundations, and the general public. The organization regularly helps journalists and filmmakers find historical consultants among its membership. Since 1994 OAH has partnered with the National Park Service to involve members in improving historical interpretation at NPS sites. OAH also offers its Distinguished Lectureship Program of more than 250 speakers for public presentations.
Awards, Prizes, Grants, and Fellowships
OAH sponsors or cosponsors more than twenty awards, prizes, grants, and fellowships given in recognition of scholarly and professional achievements in the field of American history.
Insurance Programs
Members residing in the U.S are eligible to participate in the Trust for Insuring Educators insurance programs, which offer professional liability, term life, automobile, disability, medical, and a range of other insurance services at group rates.
Comprehensive Health Insurance
Potentially save thousands on health insurance. Plan options include Health Savings Accounts, Family PPO Plans and Group Employee Health Plans. Visit www.assurantaffinity.com/oah/ for more information.
OAH Teaching Resources
OAH Magazine of History
OAH/NCHS Teaching Units
Regional Conferences and Focus on Teaching Sessions at the OAH Annual Meeting
OAH Tachau Teacher of the Year Award
History Educator Membership
Members in this category receive the OAH Magazine of History (instead of the Journal of American History), the OAH Newsletter, and the Annual Meeting Program.
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