Membership Groups

National History Day
http://www.nationalhistoryday.org
For more than 25 years, National History Day has promoted reform in the teaching and learning of history in America's schools. NHD is a yearlong educational program that engages students in grades 6-12 in the process of discovery and interpretation of historical topics related to annual themes. Students write papers and design performances, exhibits, and documentaries that are evaluated at local, state, and national competitions.

Organization of American Historians
http://www.oah.org
Founded in 1907 as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, the OAH is currently the largest learned society devoted to the study of U.S. history. It publishes "The Journal of American History", the "OAH Magazine of History", and the "OAH Newsletter", and sponsors an annual conference and a weekly radio broadcast, "Talking History", among other programs.


National Council for History Education
http://www.history.org/nche
The NCHE is dedicated to promoting the importance of history in schools and in society. The Council and its state-level affiliates link history in the schools with many activities sponsored by state and local organizations, including museums, historical councils, or community groups. The NCHE was founded in 1990 as the successor organization to the Bradley Commission on History in Schools and welcomes all who teach history, from grade 1 to graduate seminars.

American Association for State and Local History
http://www.aaslh.org
The AASLH represents over 5,000 member institutions and individuals who work in state and local history. From its beginning in 1904 as a division of the American Historical Association, the AASLH has grown to become the only comprehensive national organization dedicated to state and local history. AASLH publishes a monthly newsletter ("Dispatch") and a quarterly magazine ("History News"), along with other multimedia professional publications, and sponsors an annual meeting, an awards program, and professional development workshops and seminars around the country.

National Council on Public History
http://www.ncph.org/
The NCPH promotes public history and works for greater public and governmental support of historical programs. Its membership includes museum professionals, government historians, historical consultants and employees in consulting, archivists, professors, and students with public history interests.


Centers & Institutes

Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
http://www.wm.edu/oieahc/
The Omohundro Institute is the only organization in the U.S. devoted solely to the advancement of study, research, and publications concerning the history and culture of early America to approximately 1815. The Institute's focus also encompasses the broader Atlantic World as it affected the mainland of North America from 1500 to 1815. Located in Williamsburg, Virginia, the Institute publishes the "William and Mary Quarterly", books, and a newsletter, "Uncommon Sense".

Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
http://www.yale.edu/glc/
The Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University focuses on slavery, slave resistance, and abolition in the founding of the modern world. It promotes scholarly exchange and transmits scholarly information to the wider public through publications, educational outreach, and other programs. The Center is funded by Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman through the Gilder Lehrman Institute in New York City.

W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~du_bois/
The Du Bois Institute at Harvard University is among the leading centers for African American studies and sponsors a wide range of fellowships, research projects, lectures, conferences, and community programs.

Center for American History
http://www.cah.utexas.edu
The Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin is a special-collections library, archive, and museum that facilitates research and sponsors programs on the historical development of the U.S.

Center for History and New Media
http://chnm.gmu.edu/
Since 1994, the CHNM, based at George Mason University, has used digital media and computer technology, along with innovative scholarship, to reshape how scholars, students, and the general public learn about and use the past. Its mission is to combine serious scholarship and cutting-edge media to foster broad historical literacy.


History Departments

History Departments Around the World
http://chnm.gmu.edu/assets/historydepts/departments.php
This search engine, provided by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, offers links to more than 1,200 history departments worldwide.