Historians and Their Publics, Then and Now.
The American Historical Association annual presidential addresses provide evidence of transformations in the profession and the discipline from the founding of the association in 1884. It was not until the late 1970s that AHA presidents began to explore the histories of women and people of color in...
| Published in: | American Historical Review Vol. 127; no. 1; pp. 1 - 31 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2022
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