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Professional Organizations

This is a list of a few associations that promote the study of history on various topics. Email the librarian listed to your left if you have suggestions for additions, or discover a dead link.

American Antiquarian Society
The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) is an independent research library founded in 1812 in Worcester, Massachusetts. The library's collections document the life of America's people from the colonial era through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
American Association for State and Local History
Providing services and leadership to thousands of institutional and individual members. It is the only comprehensive national organization dedicated to state and local history.
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), a nonprofit, non-political, scholarly society, is the leading private organization in the world dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about the former Soviet Union (including Eurasia) and Eastern and Central Europe. The AAASS supports teaching, research, and publication relating to the peoples and territories within this area.
American Historical Association
American Jewish Historical Society
The American Jewish Historical Society provides access to more than 20 million documents and 50,000 books, photographs, art and artifacts that reflect the history of the Jewish presence in the United States from 1654 to the present.
American Society for Environmental History
Founded in 1977, ASEH promotes scholarship and teaching in environmental history, supports the professional needs of its members, and connects its undertakings with larger communities.
Baldwin Wallace University History Department
Center for History and New Media
CHNM uses digital media and technology to preserve and present history online, transform scholarship across the humanities, and advance historical education and understanding.
Economic History Society
The Economic History Society exists to support reseach and teaching in economic and social history, broadly defined.
International Institute of Social History
The International Institute of Social History (IISH) is the world's largest documentation and research centre in the field of social history.
Ohio Historical Association
The mission of the Ohio Historical Society is to help people connect with Ohio’s past in order to understand the present and create a better future.
Oral History Association
The Oral History Association, established in 1966, seeks to bring together all persons interested in oral history as a way of collecting and interpreting human memories to foster knowledge and human dignity.
Organization of American Historians
The Organization of American Historians is the largest learned society devoted to the study of American history.
Phi Alpha Theta - History Honor Society
A professional society whose mission is to promote the study of history through the encouragement of research, good teaching, publication and the exchange of learning and ideas among historians.
The Historical Association - UK
The Historical Association brings together people who share an interest in, and love for the past and it furthers the study and teaching and enjoyment of history in all forms.
World History Association
The WHA is the foremost organization for the promotion of world history through the encouragement of teaching, research, and publication.

Primary and Research Sources

The following is a brief list of research links and sites containing primary sources or other historical information useful for studying history. Email the librarian listed to your left if you have suggestions for additions, or discover a dead link.

Library of Congress Digital Collections This link opens in a new window
A digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.

Avalon Project - Yale University
Primary documents in law, history, and society
Digital History - Links to Key Documents in American History
EuroDocs
Online sources for European History

Style Guides

Links for style guides and aid in citing sources.

Chicago Manual of Style Online This link opens in a new window
17th edition of the style guide. Includes both author-date and notes-bibliography references.

Chicago/Turabian Documentation
The University of Wisconsin's Writing Center guide for Chicago Style of documentation
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Popular online resource for many different citation styles.
University of Wisconsin Writing Center
Another popular website useful for aiding in the citation and usage of various styles.

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