American Historical Association - Past Presidents

Past Presidents

Presidents of the AHA are elected annually and give a president's address at the annual meeting:

  • Andrew Dickson White (1884, 1885)
  • George Bancroft (1886)
  • Justin Winsor (1887)
  • William Frederick Poole (1888)
  • Charles K. Adams (1889)
  • John Jay (1890)
  • William Wirt Henry (1891)
  • James Burrill Angell (1892-93)
  • Henry Adams (1893-94)
  • George Frisbie Hoar (1895)
  • Richard Salter Storrs (1896)
  • James Schouler (1897)
  • George Park Fisher (1898)
  • James Ford Rhodes (1899)
  • Edward Eggleston (1900)
  • Charles F. Adams (1901)
  • Alfred Thayer Mahan (1902)
  • Henry Charles Lea (1903)
  • Goldwin Smith (1904)
  • John Bach McMaster (1905)
  • Simeon E. Baldwin (1906)
  • J. Franklin Jameson (1907)
  • George Burton Adams (1908)
  • Albert Bushnell Hart (1909)
  • Frederick Jackson Turner (1910)
  • William M. Sloane (1911)
  • Theodore Roosevelt (1912)
  • William A. Dunning (1913)
  • Andrew C. McLaughlin (1914)
  • H. Morse Stephens (1915)
  • George Lincoln Burr (1916)
  • Worthington C. Ford (1917)
  • William R. Thayer (1918-19)
  • Edward Channing (1920)
  • Jean Jules Jusserand (1921)
  • Charles H. Haskins (1922)
  • Edward P. Cheyney (1923)
  • Woodrow Wilson (1924, died before completing his term)
  • Charles M. Andrews (1924, 1925)
  • Dana C. Munro (1926)
  • Henry Osborn Taylor (1927)
  • James H. Breasted (1928)
  • James Harvey Robinson (1929)
  • Evarts Boutell Greene (1930)
  • Carl Lotus Becker (1931)
  • Herbert Eugene Bolton (1932)
  • Charles A. Beard (1933)
  • William E. Dodd (1934)
  • Michael I. Rostovtzeff (1935)
  • Charles McIlwain (1936)
  • Guy Stanton Ford (1937)
  • Laurence M. Larson (1938)
  • William Scott Ferguson (1939)
  • Max Farrand (1940)
  • James Westfall Thompson (1941)
  • Arthur M. Schlesinger (1942)
  • Nellie Neilson (1943)
  • William L. Westermann (1944)
  • Carlton J. H. Hayes (1945)
  • Sidney B. Fay (1946)
  • Thomas J. Wertenbaker (1947)
  • Kenneth Scott Latourette (1948)
  • Conyers Read (1949)
  • Samuel E. Morison (1950)
  • Robert Livingston Schuyler (1951)
  • James G. Randall (1952)
  • Louis Gottschalk (1953)
  • Merle Curti (1954)
  • Lynn Thorndike (1955)
  • Dexter Perkins (1956)
  • William L. Langer (1957)
  • Walter Prescott Webb (1958)
  • Allan Nevins (1959)
  • Bernadotte E. Schmitt (1960)
  • Samuel Flagg Bemis (1961)
  • Carl Bridenbaugh (1962)
  • Crane Brinton (1963)
  • Julian P. Boyd (1964)
  • Frederic C. Lane (1965)
  • Roy F. Nichols (1966)
  • Hajo Holborn (1967)
  • John K. Fairbank (1968)
  • C. Vann Woodward (1969)
  • R. R. Palmer (1970)
  • David M. Potter (1971, died before completing his term)
  • Joseph R. Strayer (1971)
  • Thomas C. Cochran (1972)
  • Lynn Townsend White, Jr. (1973)
  • Lewis Hanke (1974)
  • Gordon Wright (1975)
  • Richard B. Morris (1976)
  • Charles Gibson (1977)
  • William J. Bouwsma (1978)
  • John Hope Franklin (1979)
  • David H. Pinkney (1980)
  • Bernard Bailyn (1981)
  • Gordon A. Craig (1982)
  • Philip D. Curtin (1983)
  • Arthur S. Link (1984)
  • William H. McNeill (1985)
  • Carl N. Degler (1986)
  • Natalie Zemon Davis (1987)
  • Akira Iriye (1988)
  • Louis R. Harlan (1989)
  • David Herlihy (1990)
  • William E. Leuchtenburg (1991)
  • Frederic E. Wakeman Jr (1992)
  • Louise A. Tilly (1993)
  • Thomas C. Holt(1994)
  • John H. Coatsworth (1995)
  • Caroline Walker Bynum (1996)
  • Joyce Appleby (1997)
  • Joseph C. Miller (1998)
  • Robert Darnton (1999)
  • Eric Foner (2000)
  • William Roger Louis (2001)
  • Lynn Hunt (2002)
  • James M. McPherson (2003)
  • Jonathan Spence (2004)
  • James J. Sheehan (2005)
  • Linda K. Kerber (2006)
  • Barbara Weinstein (2007)
  • Gabrielle M. Spiegel (2008)
  • Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2009)
  • Barbara Metcalf (2010)
  • Anthony Grafton (2011)
  • William Cronon (2012)

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