Resources:
American Association for State and Local History
1717 Church Street
Nashville, TN 37203
615-320-3203
www.aaslh.org/
Provides leadership service, and support for its members, who preserve and interpret state and local history in order to make the past more meaningful in American society.
American Historical Association
400 A Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
202-544-2422
www.historians.org
Organized for the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical documents and artifacts, and the dissemination of historical research. Provides leadership and advocacy for the profession, fights to ensure academic freedom, monitors professional standards, spearheads essential research in the field, and provides resources and services to help its 14,000 members succeed.
American Social History Project
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 7389
New York, NY 10016
212-817-1966
www.ashp.cuny.edu
Aims to revitalize interest in history by challenging by challenging the traditional ways people learn about the past. Produces print, visual, and multimedia materials about working men and women whose actions and beliefs shaped American history. Produces teaching materials focusing on social history.
National Center for History in the Schools
University of California, Los Angeles
6265 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095
310-825-4702
www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs
The National Center for History in the Schools has published over sixty teaching units that are the results of collaborations between history professors and experienced teachers of both United States and World History. The units represent specific issues and dramatic episodes in history from which you and your students can pause to delve into the deeper meanings of these selected landmark events and explore their wider context in the great historical narrative.
National Council for History Education
26915 Westwood Road, Suite B-2
Westlake, OH 44145
440-835-1776
www.history.org/nche
Promotes the importance of history in schools and society, partners with numerous school districts in Teaching American History projects, and annually presents a major history education conference for historians, educators, and museum and historic site staff.
National Council for Public History
327 Cavanaugh Hall, IUPUI
425 University Boulevard
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317-274-2716
www.ncph.org/index.html
Devoted to the study and practice of public history. Enhance the public's awareness of the value and uses of history and serves the growing community of public historians.
National Council for Social Studies
8555 Sixteenth Street Suite 500
Silver Spring, MD 20910
301-588-2049
www.ncss.org
Founded in 1921, NCSS has grown to be the largest association in the country devoted solely to social studies education. NCSS engages and supports educators in strengthening and advocating social studies and serves as an umbrella organization for elementary, secondary, and college teachers of history, geography, economics, political science, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and law-related education
National Council on Public History
327 Cavanaugh Hall
IUPUI
425 University Boulevard
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317-274-2716
http://www.ncph.org
NCPH is a professional association devoted to the study and practice of public history. For more than 20 years, NCPH has worked to enhance the public's awareness of the value and uses of history and to serve the growing community of public historians. Maintains a discussion network for members and publishes both a journal and a newsletter.
National History Club
730 Boston Post Road Suite 24
Sudbury, MA 01776
800-331-5007
http://www.tcr.org/nhc/index.htm
A national organization created in March 2002 to encourage the reading, discussion, writing, and enjoyment of history among secondary students and their teachers. Schools in thirty-six states now have NHC chapters, and there are over 4,700 students involved.
National History Day
0119 Cecil Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
301-314-9767
www.nationalhistoryday.org
NHD is a yearlong history education program that makes history come alive through active student learning and educator professional development
Organization of American Historians
112 N. Bryan Ave.
PO Box 5457
Bloomington, IN 47408
812-855-7311
www.oah.org
Is the largest learned society devoted to the study of American history. Promotes the study and teaching of American history.
Organization of History Teachers
William R. Everdell
St. Ann's School
129 Pierrepont St.
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718-522-1660 http://www.historians.org/affiliates/org_his_teachers.htm
Provides history teachers from kindergarten through grade 12 with information on professional opportunities and national developments in the teaching of history. Also functions as an advocate for history in the pre-collegiate curriculum.
Society for History Education
P.O. Box 1578
Borrego Springs, CA 92004
760-767-5938
www.csulb.edu/~histeach/
To support faculty devoted to the importance of history education in universities, community colleges, and pre-collegiate schools. The Society for History Education supports all disciplines in history education in universities, community colleges, and secondary schools through its membership journal, The History Teacher. SHE is an Affiliate of the American Historical Association.
World History Association
2530 Dole Street, A203
Honolulu, HI 96822
808-956-7688
www.thewha.org/index.htm
Founded in 1982, with a mission to promote the study of global history by encouraging and supporting research, teaching, collegial communication, and publication in world history.
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