Members Directory
This directory is a complete list of all members elected to the
Society since its founding in 1812. Members, who now number more than 800
persons, are elected by
their colleagues in recognition of scholarship, for support of cultural
institutions, for manifest interest in bibliographical matters, or for
distinction as community or national leaders in humanistic affairs.
Members Directory Index
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The membership includes scholars,
educators, publishers, collectors, cultural administrators, civic leaders,
journalists, writers, and filmmakers, as well as lay persons with an
interest in the field of American history. Thirteen presidents of the
United States have been members, and AAS members have been awarded
over sixty
Pulitzer Prizes and over fifty Bancroft
Prizes for their work. Members have been elected from every region of
our
nation and from thirty-three foreign countries.
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