Southern History Association

Not to be confused with Southern Historical Society or Southern Historical Association.

The Southern History Association was a short-lived professional American organization of historians who studied the American South. The organization was founded in 1896, at the time of the Southern Renaissance, when a need for professionalization among historians in the United States gave rise to a more scientific treatment of history.

The organization was founded in Washington, D. C., in 1896, and many of its members were not academically employed. Founders included historians William K. Boyd from Trinity College (now Duke University) and Richard Heath Dabney from the University of Virginia, and literary scholar William Peterfield Trent, from Sewanee. They published a well-regarded journal, Publications of the Southern History Association, and were hoping to organize conferences and attract a broad audience. However, the association never managed to gain such an audience or the necessary institutional support, and never had more than 250 members. The articles published in the Publications were "dry as dust" and focused more on America as a whole and the idea of nation-building, rather than on the South, and according to its own editor, Colyer Meriwether, was unable to reach a more popular Southern audience. By the end of 1907, the association had ceased to be.[1]

## References

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1. ^ Johnson, Bethany L. (2010). "The Southern Historical Association: Seventy-five Years of History 'in the South' and 'of the South'". The Journal of Southern History. 76 (3): 655–682\. JSTOR 25700143.

## External links

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* Publications of the Southern History Association at HathiTrust

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Historical societies for the southern United States

South Atlantic|

| Florida|

| Orlando|

* Historical Society of Central Florida
* Orange County Regional History Center

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Others|

* Clearwater Historical Society
* Florida Historical Society
* Friends of Seagate Inc.
* Jacksonville Historical Society
* Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation
* Taylor County Historical Society

Georgia|

| Atlanta|

* American Baptist Historical Society
* Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
* International Time Capsule Society

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Others|

* Historic Chattahoochee Commission
* Georgia Historical Society
* Georgia Salzburger Society
* Roswell Historical Society
* Southern Historical Association

North Carolina|

| Durham|

* Forest History Society
* Labor and Working-Class History Association

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Others|

* Conference on Latin American History
* Hickory Sabre Society
* Society of North Carolina Archivists

South Carolina|

| Charleston|

* Historic Charleston Foundation
* Preservation Society of Charleston
* South Carolina Historical Society

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Others|

* Beech Island Historical Society
* Sea Research Society

Virginia|

| Lexington|

* Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
* Society for Military History

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Richmond|

* American Association for the History of Medicine
* Historic Richmond Foundation
* Preservation Virginia
* Virginia Department of Historic Resources
* Virginia Historical Society

Others|

* Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training
* Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
* Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
* Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
* United States Marine Corps History Division

East South Central|

| Alabama|

* Alabama Historical Commission
* Historic Chattahoochee Commission

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Kentucky|

* The Filson Historical Society
* Kentucky Historical Society
* Southern Association for Women Historians

Mississippi|

| Jackson|

* Mississippi Department of Archives and History
* Mississippi Heritage Trust
* Mississippi Historical Society

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Tennessee|

* American Association for State and Local History
* East Tennessee Historical Society
* Oral History Association
* Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
* Tennessee Historical Society
* West Tennessee Historical Society

West South Central|

| Arkansas|

* Arkansas Historical Association
* Cotton Belt Rail Historical Society
* Sequoyah Research Center

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Louisiana|

* Louisiana Historical Association
* National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
* North Louisiana Historical Association

Oklahoma|

* American Journalism Historians Association
* Cherokee Heritage Center
* Oklahoma Historical Society
* Pushmataha County Historical Society

Texas|

| Austin|

* Texas Historical Commission
* Texas Jewish Historical Society
* Texas State Historical Association

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Fort Worth|

* North American Society for Oceanic History
* North Texas Historic Transportation

Houston|

* Modern Greek Studies Association
* Southern Historical Association

Lubbock|

* American Cowboy Culture Association
* West Texas Historical Association

Others|

* Dallas Historical Society
* Gillespie County Historical Society
* National Coalition of Independent Scholars
* Society for the History of Discoveries
* South Texas Historical Association

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