History graduate students
and serious undergraduate history majors should think seriously to
joining one or more professional history orgainzations. Most
offer a journal subscription and/or a newsletter, sponsor conferences,
and
award prizes and felowships.
General History Associations:
American Historical
Association
The major orgainzation for the
history
profession in the United States, no matter what your speciality.
If you are a grad student going on the job market, you WILL have to
join and go the the AHA's annual meeting in January. They publish
the American Historical Review
and Prospectives.
Organization
of American
Historians
A
national organization for historians working on American History.
They publish the Journal of American
History and the Magazine of History for teachers.
Society
for Military History
Publishers of the Journal of Military History, they
also put on a great annual meeting, which is very student friendly.
*New England History--
Colonial Society of
Massachusetts
Founded in 1892, the Colonial
Society of Massachusetts is a non-profit educational foundation
designed to promote the
study of Massachusetts history from earliest settlement through the
first decades of the nineteenth century. They co-sponsor the
publication of The New England Quarterly.
