Talk:American Historical Association

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It's a pleasure to welcome a new editor to Wikipedia. Of course this is a critical encyclopedia and must represent all points of view--just like the AHR does. As an off-and-on AHA member for 40 years, I would suggest that the article has to include all aspects of what the organization has been doing. Saying the organization "largely defined the profession and practice of history over the past 125 years." seems flatly untrue; perhaps the membership was meant (but that stretches it some). Deleting a quotation from Arnita Jones ("Individual membership has for long been drawn significantly on tenured faculty members in higher education institutions, but the percentage of tenured and tenure-track faculty has shrunk over the years, with serious implications for our membership base.") seems to reduce the information content rather than add to it. Rjensen 18:56, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Er, the list of presidents say that the year given is the year of that president's presidential address. But our article text says (and my physical presence at the convention and memory of it supports the notion) that Sheehan gave his address at the 2006, and not at the 2005 convention. Does that mean the whole list is off by one? john k 19:39, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Should the page mention that in 2003 the AHA's Theodore Roosevelt- Woodrow Wilson Public Service Award was awarded to former KKK member Senator Robert Byrd? 162.84.133.162 (talk) 17:12, 3 June 2008 (UTC)