American Society for Ethnohistory records
name: label: Creator
content: American Society for Ethnohistory
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnohistory
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content: Professional associations
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content: Scholarly periodicals
creator: label: Creator
content: American Society for Ethnohistory
physloc: label: Note
content: The collection is stored off-site. Advanced notice must be given to view the collection.
bioghist: label: Historical note
content: The American Society for Ethnohistory was founded as the Ohio Valley Historic Indian Conference, an interdisciplinary organization of historians, ethnologists, archaeologists, and linguists. Its purpose was to promote the study of historical Indians of the Ohio Valley. In 1955, the conference became the American Indian Ethnohistoric Conference. The present name was adopted in 1966. The society's purposes, as suggested by the changes in name, have broadened and today it promotes cultural history of non-industrial people.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 18 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1953-1992
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Donated by the American Society for Ethnohistory.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1981-21
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Manuscripts
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Portions of this collection are unprocessed. Please contact the archivist for further information.

Earlier accessions, containing records dating from 1953-1979, have been arranged in the following proposed series: (1) Minutes of meetings, bylaws, and related documents, 1953-1966; (2) chronological correspondence files regarding meetings, 1953-1964; (3) alphabetical correspondence file regarding meetings, 1960-1964; (4) Bernard Fontana's correspondence , 1967-1970; (5) letters sent by Bernard Fontana, 1964-1965; (6) Ethnohistory subscriptions and finances, 1953-1962; (7) Ethnohistory subscriptions, 1953-1962; (8) Ethnohistory editorial correspondence regarding unused manuscipts, 1964-1968; (9) Ethnohistory editorial correspondence regarding published manuscripts, 1964-1968; (10) Ethnohistory book review correspondence, 1964-1967; (11) American Indian Ethnohistory Conference newsletter information, 1960-1963; (12) miscellany, undated; (13) correspondence of Harold Hickerson and Bernard L. Fontana as editors of Ethnohistory, 1968-1973; (14) records of James E. Ayres, 1971-1979; (15) correspondence and other records of Harold Hickerson about ASE business, 1965-1968; (16) correspondence and other records of William Curtis Sturtevant, 1965-1967; (17) correspondence and other records of Mary Wallace Helms, 1977-1979; (18) correspondence of Thomas B. Hinton, 1973-1967; (19) correspondence of James E. Ayres, 1977-1979.

Two later accessions, containing materials dating from 1983-1994, are unprocessed.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Manuscripts
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection consists of the records of the American Society for Ethnohistory and documents the activities of the officers of the ASE and the editors of the journal Ethnohistory. Earlier accessions, containing records from 1953-1979, include minutes, correspondence, financial records, subscription information, newsletters, and materials related to manuscript submissions and published manuscripts. Later accessions, containing records from the tenure of editor Shepard Krech (1983-1992) and secretary/treasurer William O. Autry (1986-1994), primarily contain correspondence, financial documents, contracts, minutes, newsletters, memorandums, manuscript submissions and reviewers' comments.

Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.