About
About IAH
Founded in 1980, the Indiana Association of Historians welcomes anyone interested in the study, enjoyment and promotion of history. As an organization, we bring together educators, scholars, genealogists, archivists, public historians, librarians and the general public interested in the pursuit of history. Our purpose is to provide a forum for professional historians to come together as a group for dialogue about the academic discipline they share, but the IAH is also committed to reaching out beyond the university community, or communities, to share the study of history with other professional historians and with the broader public.
Our History
Discussions in 1979-1980 among Emma Lou Thornbrough (Butler University), Gayle Thornbrough (IHS), and Errol Stevens (IHS), led to the calling of an exploratory meeting to organize state historians at IHS on May 20, 1980. A steering committee then met on August 11 to plan a preliminary organizational meeting. More than one hundred persons attended this meeting on October 31, 1980, in the auditorium of the State Library and Historical Building in Indianapolis. On March 13-14, 1981, seventy-seven historians from within the state assembled at Purdue University for the first annual meeting of the new Indiana Association of Historians. Click this link for a brief history of the first ten years of the IAH’s existence (1980-1990).
2024-2025 Board Members
Please email the IAH Board through the Contact page.