About Us
The American Historical Association (AHA) is a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1884 and incorporated by Congress in 1889 for the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical documents and artifacts, and the dissemination of historical research. As the largest historical society in the United States, the AHA serves as the umbrella organization for historians. In this role, it conducts an active scholarly and professional program for historians interested in every period and geographical area. Among its 15,000 members are faculty at secondary schools and two– and four–year colleges and universities, independent historians, and historians in museums, historical organizations, libraries and archives, government, and other areas.
The Pacific Coast Branch was organized in 1903 to serve members of the American
Historical Association living in the Western States of the United States and the Western
Provinces of Canada. All members of the AHA
living in those areas, therefore, are also members of the Branch. Dues of the
parent and branch association are handled by the Executive Director of AHA,
400 A Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. 2003.
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Independent of the AHA itself, the Pacific Coast Branch maintains business offices at: Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108
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The Pacific Coast Branch also publishes the Pacific
Historical Review, which carries all information on Branch affairs. Individual
subscribers of the PHR
are also voting members of the PCB.
Subscriptions to the Review are made through the Journals Division, University
of California Press, Berkeley, CA 94720.
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Our Officers
- Officers
- President:
Rachel G. Fuchs, Arizona State University - President–elect:
Barbara Molony, Santa Clara University - Executive Director:
Peter J. Blodgett, Huntington Library - Managing Editors of the PHR:
David Johnson and Carl Abbott, Portland State University - Counselors
- Samuel Truett, University of New Mexico (2009)
- Colleen O'Neill, Utah State University (2009)
- Beshara Doumani, University of California, Berkeley (2009)
- Andrew Wiese, San Diego State University (2010)
- Lisa Forman Cody, Claremont McKenna College (2010)
- Kevin Allen Leonard, Western Washington University (2010)
- Sara Elkind, San Diego State University (2011)
- David Igler, University of California, Irvine (2011)
- Louis Warren, University of California, Davis (2011)
- Past Presidents
- David Wrobel, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Linda B. Hall, University of New Mexico
- Albert Camarillo, Stanford University