The AAHC is an academic/
professional association that works with both
history and
information technology. It sounds like an odd combination, but
historians became heavily involved with
data storage and such long before many other
academic disciplines did. They hold an annual
convention, the location of which changes every year. Anyone may join; their
website is at http://aahs.sfasu.edu/ ... they're pretty cool people, really; the
membership is a huge range of historians of every field,
librarians,
statisticians,
theorists and so on.
Eavesdroppping at conversations at this year's convention would have caught mentions of everything from
Nicholas Negroponte to
J-STOR to
virtual reproductions.
Their official blurb reads:
The American Association for
History and
Computing (AAHC) is dedicated to the reasonable and productive marriage of history and
computer technology. To support and promote these goals, the AAHC sponsors a number of activities, including an annual meeting, an
electronic journal--the
Journal of the Association for History and Computing (JAHC), a continuing publication series, and a variety of summer workshops.
The association welcomes members from any
endeavor relating to history, and anyone interested in the aims of the association is encouraged to join.