Immigration and Ethnic History Society

The Immigration and Ethnic History Society was founded in 1965 as the Immigration History Group. It was renamed the Immigration History Society in 1972, and was subsequently chartered as a non-profit organization in Minnesota. In 1998, the Society, which had traditionally dealt with matters of ethnicity as well as immigration, changed its name to the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. [Read more. . .]

Enroll or Renew Your Membership

Membership in the IEHS includes a subscription to the quarterly Journal of American Ethnic History as well as to the IEHS Newsletter. There is an annual meeting and dinner in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians. We organize and sponsor sessions on immigration and ethnic subjects at various academic conferences. We also sponsor awards for outstanding books and articles and an award to encourage promising dissertation research. The Society is a member of the Association of North American Immigration Institutions (ANAII). [Read more. . .]

What's New at IEHS

The Organization of American Historians (OAH) and the National Council on Public History are currently accepting proposals for the 2013 OAH Annual Meeting, to be held in San Francisco, CA, Thursday April 11 to Sunday April 14, 2013. The call for papers if available on the OAH website at

http://annualmeeting.oah.org/call_for_proposals/2013_sanfrancisco.html

Our website allows members to search for conference panelists, access special offers, peruse our syllabus archive, and more! Please check it out and send feedback to Website Editor Rachel Kranson: Rachel.Kranson (at) gmail.com

The American Historical Association has announced its call for proposals for the 2013 annual meeting. Paper and session proposals due 2/15/12. Meeting theme: "Lives, Places, Stories." Meeting Place in New Orleans, January 2-5, 2013.

January 28, 2012