41st Annual Meeting | 2021
Virtual
Program
37th Annual Conference | 2017
Ivy Tech Community College, Lafayette
Program
36th Annual Conference | 2016
Indiana Memorial Union and Wylie House Museum, Indiana University, Bloomington
Program
35th Annual Conference | 2015
Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Program
34th Annual Conference | 2014
Anderson University
Program
33rd Annual Conference | 2013
University of Indianapolis
Program
32nd Annual Conference | 2012
Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana
Program
31st Annual Conference | 2011
Indiana History Center, Indianapolis
Program
30th Annual Conference | 2010
Anderson University Flagship Enterprise Center
Program
29th Annual Conference | 2009
The History Center (Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society), Fort Wayne
Program
28th Annual Conference | 2008
Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Program
27th Annual Conference | 2007
Indiana Memorial Union, Indiana University, Bloomington
Program
26th Annual Conference | 2006
Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana
Program
25th Annual Conference | 2005
Indiana History Center, Indianapolis
Program
24th Annual Conference | 2004
University of Indianapolis
Program
23rd Annual Conference | 2003
Earlham College and Indiana University East, Richmond
22nd Annual Conference | 2002
Indiana History Center, Indianapolis
21st Annual Conference | 2001
Purdue University
20th Annual Conference | 2000
New Harmony and the University of Southern Indiana
19th Annual Conference | 1999
Butler University
18th Annual Conference | 1998
DePauw University
17th Annual Conference | 1997
Franklin College
16th Annual Conference | 1996
Indiana University, Bloomington
15th Annual Conference | 1995
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and Indiana State University
14th Annual Conference | 1994
New Harmony and the University of Southern Indiana
13th Annual Conference | 1993
Ball State University
12th Annual Conference | 1992
Earlham College
11th Annual Conference | 1991
Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Indiana
Program
10th Annual Conference | 1990
Purdue University
9th Annual Conference | 1989
Butler University
8th Annual Conference | 1988
University of Notre Dame
7th Annual Conference | 1987
Franklin College
6th Annual Conference | 1986
DePauw University
5th Annual Conference | 1985
Indiana State University
4th Annual Conference | 1984
Ball State University
3rd Annual Conference | 1983
Indiana University, Bloomington
2nd Annual Conference | 1982
Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
1st Annual Conference | 1981
Purdue University
Organizational Meeting | 1980
Indiana State Library, Indianapolis
41st Annual Meeting

Beyond Boundaries -- Indiana Academies Symposium

Christy S. Coleman, Ph.D.
Executive Director | Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation
37th Annual Conference

The Promise and Perils of Literacy: Reflections at the Quincentenary of the Reformation

Brad S. Gregory, Ph.D.
Dorothy G. Griffin Chair, Department of History | University of Notre Dame
36th Annual Conference

The Memorial’s Vernacular Arc: Between Berlin’s Denkmal and New York City’s 9/11 Memorial

James E. Young, Ph.D.
Distinguished University Professor of English and Judaic Studies | University of Massachusetts, Amherst
35th Annual Conference

Abraham Lincoln in Indiana, and Why It Matters

Brian Dirck, Ph.D.
Professor of History | Anderson University
34th Annual Conference

The United States and the Great War, 1914-1917

Lawrence Sondhaus, Ph.D.
Professor of History | University of Indianapolis
33rd Annual Conference

Emancipation and Freedom: How Civil War Veterans Remembered Slavery

Caroline E. Janney, Ph.D.
Professor of History | Purdue University
32nd Annual Conference

Dragons of the North: Voyages of the Viking Longships

John Hale, Ph.D.
Director of Liberal Studies, Liberal Studies Program | The University of Louisville
31st Annual Conference

The Door of Hope: Republican Presidents and the First Southern Strategy

Edward O. Frantz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History | University of Indianapolis
30th Annual Conference

Local, National, Global: Studying History in the Eighteenth Century

Andrew Cayton, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of History | Miami University, Ohio
29th Annual Conference

The Constitution and Lincoln

Mark E. Neely, Jr., Ph.D.
McCabe Greer Professor in the American Civil War Era | Pennsylvania State University
28th Annual Conference

Lester A. Walton—His Story, My Story, History

Susan Curtis, Ph.D.
Professor of History | Purdue University
27th Annual Conference

Why Aren’t We All Public Historians?

Dwight Pitcaithley, Ph.D.
Professor of History | New Mexico State University
26th Annual Conference

The Roller Coaster Course of 'American Empire,' 1750-2006

Walter LaFeber, Ph.D.
Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor | Cornell University
25th Annual Conference

Mr. Tom Cochrun
News Director | WISH-TV
24th Annual Conference

Civil Rights Anniversaries: The Brown Decision, Freedom Summer, and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement

John Dittmer, Ph.D.
| DePauw University
23rd Annual Conference

22nd Annual Conference

21st Annual Conference

20th Annual Conference

19th Annual Conference

18th Annual Conference

17th Annual Conference

16th Annual Conference

15th Annual Conference

14th Annual Conference

13th Annual Conference

12th Annual Conference

11th Annual Conference

Vevay, Indiana, and Chabag, Bessarabia: Interpretive Reflections on the Making of Two Immigrant Communities

Leo Schelbert, Ph.D.
Professor of History | University of Chicago
10th Annual Conference

Paternalism and Dependency: the Paradox of American Indian Affairs

Francis Paul Prucha, S.J.
Professor Emeritus | Marquette University
9th Annual Conference

8th Annual Conference

7th Annual Conference

6th Annual Conference

5th Annual Conference

4th Annual Conference

3rd Annual Conference

2nd Annual Conference

1st Annual Conference

Organizational Meeting

2017 Thornbrough lecture

Recovering the History of the Black Panther Party in the Era of #BlackLivesMatter

Robyn C. Spencer, Ph.D.
Professor of History | City University of New York
Program
2016 Thornbrough lecture

A Crisis of Political History? A View of the Field through the Lens of African American Women’s Electoral Activism

Lisa Materson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History | University of California, Davis
Program
2014 Thornbrough lecture

Contingent Freedom: Civil Rights from Brown v. Board to Michael Brown

Jelani Cobb, Ph.D.
Director, African Studies Program | University of Connecticut
Program
2012 Thornbrough lecture

Bill Traylor’s Paintings: ‘The Ladder of Escape’

Mechal Sobel
Professor Emerita of History | University of Haifa
2011 Thornbrough lecture

To ‘Keep the Light Burning’: Recasting the Story of the Civil Rights Movement

Patricia Sullivan, Ph.D.
Professor of History | University of South Carolina
Program
2010 Thornbrough lecture

Arc of Justice: A Story of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

Kevin Boyle, Ph.D.
Professor of History | Ohio State University
Years prior to 1995, this lecture was not called Thornbrough.
It was simply the "IAH Fall Lecture".
1989 IAH Fall Lecture

Randy Roberts, Ph.D.
Purdue University
1988 IAH Fall Lecture

David Thelen, Ph.D.
Indiana University, Bloomington
1987 IAH Fall Lecture

Gunther Rothenberg, Ph.D.
Purdue University
1986 IAH Fall Lecture

Dwight Smith, Ph.D.
Miami University, Ohio
1985 IAH Fall Lecture

Emma Lou Thornbrough, Ph.D.
Butler University
1984 IAH Fall Lecture

Patrick Furlong, Ph.D.
Indiana University, South Bend
1983 IAH Fall Lecture

Panel Discussion

Ralph Gary, James H. Madison, Lewis Perry, and Otto Pflanze
IUPUI, Indiana University, Indiana University, Indiana University
1982 IAH Fall Lecture

Howard Mehlinger, Ph.D.
Indiana University
1981 IAH Fall Lecture

John Bodnar, Ph.D.
Indiana University
1980 IAH Fall Lecture

John Higham, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins

Past Presidents

J. Michael Raley
2020-2021
Hanover College
Steven Stofferahn
2019-2020
Indiana State University
Kathleen Tobin
2018-2019
Purdue University Northwest
Anita Morgan
2017-2018
Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
John Larson
2016-2017
Purdue University
Daniel Murphy
2015-2016
Hanover College
Nancy Conner
2014-2015
Indiana Humanities Council
David Murphy
2013-2014
Anderson University
Matthew Vosmeier
2012-2013
Hanover College
Joel Shrock
2011-2012
Anderson University
Ray Boomhower
2010-2011
Indiana Historical Society
Marianne Wokeck
2009-2010
IUPUI
Thomas A. Mason
2008-2009
Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
A. James Fuller
2007-2008
University of Indianapolis
Leigh Darbee
2006-2007
Indiana Historical Society
Joanne E. Passet
2005-2006
Indiana University East (Richmond)
Stephen Cox
2004-2005
Indiana Historical Society
Katherine Tinsley
2003-2004
Manchester College
David G. Vanderstel
2002-2003
National Council on Public History
Rebecca Shoemaker
2001-2002
Indiana State University
John M. Glen
2000-2001
Ball State University
Darrel Bigham
1999-2000
University of Southern Indiana
Paul Hanson
1998-1999
Butler University
Barbara Steinson
1997-1998
DePauw University
Thomas Hamm
1996-1997
Earlham College
William G. Eidson
1995-1996
Ball State University
Donald L. Layton
1994-1995
Indiana State University
Jan Shipps
1993-1994
Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
William Pickett
1992-1993
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
James H. Madison
1991-1992
Indiana University Bloomington
Peter Sehlinger
1990-1991
Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Lloyd A. Hunter
1989-1990
Franklin College
M. Jeanne Peterson
1988-1989
Indiana University, Bloomington
Mark E. Neely, Jr.
1987-1988
Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library and Museum, Fort Wayne
Oakah L. Jones
1986-1987
Purdue University
Bernard Friedman
1985-1986
Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Clifton J. Phillips
1984-1985
DePauw University
Harold Woodman
1983-1984
Purdue University
Emma Lou Thornbrough
Butler University
Walter T. K. Nugent
1981-1982
Indiana University Bloomington

Past Board Members

A list of the past IAH Officers and Board/Council Members (1981-2021) may be found by clicking the link below.

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