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4 unusual facts about American Historical Association


A. G. Hopkins

His principal works include An Economic History of West Africa (1973), and, with Peter Cain, British Imperialism, 1688-2000 (2001), which won the Forkosch Prize of the American Historical Association and is considered by many to be the most influential interpretation of British expansion offered in the last half century.

Arthur E. Andersen

Arthur E. Andersen also served as Treasurer of the Norwegian-American Historical Association (1936–42) and was a director of the State Bank & Trust Co. (Evanston, Illinois).

Einar Haugen

Haugen was also a member of the Board of Editors of the Norwegian-American Historical Association.

Leopold von Ranke

In 1884, he was appointed the first honorary member of the American Historical Association.


David Lewis-Williams

His book, The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art (Thames & Hudson) won the American Historical Association’s 2003 James Henry Breasted Award.

Helen Svensson Fletre

During her later years, she was helpful in collecting information for A Century of Urban Life by Odd S. Lovoll and published by the Norwegian-American Historical Association in 1988.

Jonathan Israel

He was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1992, Corresponding Fellow of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) in 1994, won the American Historical Association’s Leo Gershoy Prize in 2001, and was made Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion in 2004.

Julius W. Pratt

Pratt delivered the Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History for 1936, later published as The Expansionists of 1898: The Acquisition of Hawaii and the Spanish Islands. In the period 1938-1939, Pratt was one of the "Committee of Ten on Reorganization and Policy" charged by the American Historical Association with reviewing the organization and recommending improvements.

Wayne S. Vucinich

In 1954, Vucinich won the George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association for his Serbia Between East and West: The Events of 1903-08

William Wirt Henry

William Wirt Henry (February 14, 1831 – December 5, 1900) was a Virginia lawyer and politician, historian and writer, a biographer of Patrick Henry—his grandfather, and who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, and was president of The Virginia Bar Association and the American Historical Association.


see also

Barbara Jelavich

Her book Modern Austria appeared in 1994 in a Japanese edition, and she collaborated on the third edition of the American Historical Association’s Guide to Historical Literature (published in 1995).

Carl Tellefsen

Blegen, Theodore C. Norwegian Migration to America, The American Transition (Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1940)

Earl H. Pritchard

1800 (based in part on his doctoral thesis, 1936), sections written for The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature (1961), the coauthoring of Volume 4 of the UNESCO History of Mankind: Cultural and Scientific Development.

Foner

Eric Foner (born 1943), American historian and former head of the American Historical Association; son of Jack D. Foner

James R. Gaines

A graduate of New York’s McBurney School and the University of Michigan, Gaines is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Historical Association, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Overseas Press Club, and the Online News Association.

Karl Ouren

Lovoll, Odd S. A Century of Urban Life: the Norwegians in Chicago before 1930 (Northfield, MN: Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1988)

Yngvar Sonnichsen

Bjork, Kenneth O. Saga in Steel and Concrete - Norwegian Engineers in America (Northfield, MN: Norwegian-American Historical Association. 1947)