CONSTITUTION.

I.

The name of this society shall be The American Historical Association.

II.

Its object shall be the promotion of historical studies.

III.

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Any person approved by the executive council may become a member by paying $3, and after the first year may continue a member by paying an annual fee of $3. On payment of $50 any person may become a life member, exempt from fees. Persons not resident in the United States may be elected as honorary or corresponding members and be exempt from the payment of fees.

IV.

The officers shall be a president, two vice presidents, a secretary, a secretary of the council, a curator, a treasurer, and an executive council consisting of the foregoing officers and six other members elected by the association, with the ex-presidents of the association. These officers shall be elected by ballot at each regular annual meeting of the association.

V.

The executive council shall have charge of the general interests of the association, including the election of members, the calling of meetings, the selection of papers to be read, and the determination of what papers shall be published.

VI.

This constitution may be amended at any annual meeting, notice of such amendment having been given at the previous annual meeting or the proposed amendment having received the approval of the executive council.

AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.

Organized at Saratoga, N. Y., September 10, 1884. Incorporated by Congress January 4, 1889.

OFFICERS ELECTED DECEMBER 30, 1912.

PRESIDENT:
WILLIAM ARCHIBALD DUNNING, Ph. D., LL. D.,

Columbia University.

VICE PRESIDENTS:
ANDREW C. McLAUGHLIN, A. M., LL. B.,

University of Chicago.

H. MORSE STEPHENS, M. A., LITT. D.,

University of California.

SECRETARY:
WALDO GIFFORD LELAND, A. M.,

Carnegie Institution of Washington.

TREASURER:
CLARENCE WINTHROP BOWEN, Ph. D.,

New York.

SECRETARY OF THE COUNCIL:
CHARLES HOMER HASKINS, Ph. D.,

Harvard University.

CURATOR:
A. HOWARD CLARK, A. M.,

Smithsonian Institution.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
(In addition to the above-nameil officers.)

(Ex-Presidents.)
ANDREW DICKSON WHITE, L. H. D., LL. D., D. C. L.,

Ithaca, N. Y

JAMES BURRILL ANGELL, LL, D.,

University of Michigan.
HENRY ADAMS, LL. D.

Washington, D. C.
JAMES SCHOULER, LL. D.,

Boston, Mass.

JAMES FORD RHODES, LL, D., D. LITT.,

Boston, Mass,

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, LL. D.,

Boston, Mass.
ALFRED THAYER MAHAN, D. C. L., LL. D.,

Quogue, N. Y.

JOHN BACH MCMASTER, A. M., Ph. D., Litt. D., LL. D.,

University of Pennsylvania.

SIMEON E. BALDWIN, LL. D.,

New Haven, Conn.
JOHN FRANKLIN JAMESON, Ph. D., LL. D.,

Carnegie Institution of Washington.
GEORGE BURTON ADAMS, Ph. D., LITT. D.,

Yale University.
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART, Ph. D., LL. D., LITT. D.,

Harvard University. FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER, Ph. D., LL. D., Litt. D.,

Harvard University. WILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANE, Ph. D., L. H. D., LL. D.,

Columbia University.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT, LL. D., D. C. L.,

Oyster Bay, N. Y.
(Elected Councillors.)

FRED MORROW FLING, Ph. D.,

University of Nebraska.

JAMES ALBERT WOODBURN, Ph. D.,

Indiana University.

HERMAN VANDENBURG AMES, Ph. D.,

University of Pennsylvania.
DANA CARLETON MUNRO, A. M.,

University of Wisconsin.

ARCHIBALD CARY COOLIDGE, Ph. D.,

Harvard University.
JOHN MARTIN VINCENT, Ph. D., LL. D.,

Johns Hopkins University.