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Organization of American Historians

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

Founded 1907 as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association.

Official Website:
http://www.oah.org/

Founding Date:
1907

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Joyce Appleby
Historian
9-Apr-1929   Capitalism and a New Social Order
Thomas A. Bailey
Historian
14-Dec-1902 26-Jul-1983 The American Pageant
John M. Belohlavek
Historian
3-Jan-1943   Let the Eagle Soar
Mary Frances Berry
Government
17-Feb-1938   Civil Rights Commissioner, 1980-2004
Kai Bird
Historian
2-Sep-1951   American Prometheus
Henry Blumenthal
Historian
21-Oct-1911 17-Feb-1987 France and the United States
Andrew R. L. Cayton
Historian
9-May-1954   Ohio: The History of a People
Naomi W. Cohen
Historian
13-Nov-1927   Jews in Christian America
Warren I. Cohen
Historian
20-Jun-1934   America's Response to China
Phil Crane
Politician
3-Nov-1930 8-Nov-2014 Congressman from Illinois, 1969-2005
Drew Gilpin Faust
Educator
18-Sep-1947   President of Harvard University
Eric Foner
Historian
7-Feb-1943   Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution
William W. Freehling
Historian
26-Dec-1935   Prelude to Civil War
John Lewis Gaddis
Historian
2-Apr-1941   George F. Kennan: An American Life
Alan Gallay
Historian
26-Nov-1957   The Indian Slave Trade
Eugene D. Genovese
Historian
19-May-1930 26-Sep-2012 Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
Paul W. Glad
Historian
15-Aug-1926   The Trumpet Soundeth
Mary W. M. Hargreaves
Historian
1-Mar-1914 29-Aug-2008 Dry Farming in the Northern Great Plains
J. David Hoeveler
Educator
31-Jul-1943   Watch on the Right
Michael J. Hogan
Educator
1943   President, University of Connecticut
Reginald Horsman
Historian
24-Oct-1931   The Causes of the War of 1812
Linda K. Kerber
Historian
23-Jan-1940   Federalists in Dissent
Ernest M. Lander, Jr.
Historian
16-Dec-1915 17-Aug-2013 Reluctant Imperialists
Richard W. Leopold
Historian
6-Jan-1912 23-Nov-2006 Robert Dale Owen: A Biography
Gerda Lerner
Historian
30-Apr-1920 2-Jan-2013 The Woman in American History
John J. McCusker
Historian
12-Aug-1939   The Economy of British America, 1607-1789
Richard Middleton
Historian
1-Apr-1941   The Bells of Victory
John Niven
Historian
26-Oct-1921 14-Aug-1997 John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union
Frank Lawrence Owsley, Jr.
Historian
13-Jun-1928   The Struggle for the Gulf Borderlands
Nell Irvin Painter
Historian
2-Aug-1942   Creating Black Americans
David M. Pletcher
Historian
14-Jun-1920 22-Feb-2004 The Diplomacy of Involvement
Brenda Gayle Plummer
Historian
20-Oct-1946   Haiti and the United States
David M. Potter
Historian
6-Dec-1910 18-Feb-1971 The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
Michael Schaller
Historian
2-Jun-1947   The American Occupation of Japan
Thomas D. Schoonover
Historian
27-May-1936   The United States in Central America
April R. Summitt
Educator
c. 1965   Contested Waters
William Appleman Williams
Historian
12-Jun-1921 6-Mar-1990 The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
Gordon S. Wood
Historian
27-Nov-1933   The Creation of the American Republic
James Wright
Educator
1939   President, Dartmouth College




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