This is a partial list of historical and heritage societies in the United States.
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National societies
- American Antiquarian Society
- American Historical Association
- American Baptist Historical Society
- Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation
- National Council on Public History
- National Japanese American Historical Society
- Order of the Founders and Patriots of America
- Organization of American Historians
- Society of American Historians
- Shapell Manuscript Foundation
State societies
Societies with museums include:
Other state associations
Territorial societies
Federal District societies
- Cleveland Park Historical Society[3][4]
- Historic Chevy Chase DC[5]
- Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
- Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington[3]
- Sheridan Kalorama Historical Association[3]
- Supreme Court Historical Society
- Tenleytown Historical Society[4]
- United States Capitol Historical Society[3]
- White House Historical Association[3]
County and local societies
Alabama
- Birmingham Historical Society[6]
- Blount County Historical Society[5]
- Bullock County Historical Society[5]
- Cherokee County Historical Society[5]
- Chilton County Historical Society[5]
- Clarke County Historical Society[5]
- Clay County Historical Society[5]
- Crenshaw County Historical Society[5]
- Elmore County Historical Society[5]
- Escambia County Historical Society[5]
- Fayette County Historical Society[5]
- Greene County Historical Society[5]
- Hale County Historical Society[6]
- Lee County Historical Society[5]
- Limestone County Historical Society[5]
- Marengo County Historical Society[5]
- Marion County Historical Society[5]
- Mobile Historical Society[6]
- Montgomery County Historical Society[5]
- Randolph County Historical Society[5]
- Russell County Historical Society[6]
- Shelby County Historical Society[5]
- Washington County Historical Society[5]
- West Jefferson County Historical Society[5]
Alaska
- Cook Inlet Historical Society[3]
- Cooper Landing Historical Society
- Cordova Historical Society[7][3]
- Eagle Historical Society[7]
- Gastineau Channel Historical Society[3]
- Hope and Sunrise Historical Society
- Kasilof Regional Historical Association
- Kenai Historical Society
- Kenai Peninsula Historical Association[3]
- Kodiak Historical Society[8]
- Matanuska Valley Historical Society[9]
- Nome Historical Society[10]
- Palmer Historical Society[7]
- Port Alexander Historical Society[7]
- Resurrection Bay Historical Society
- Salcha Historical Society[7]
- Sitka Historical Society[8]
- Soldotna Historical Society
- Tanana-Yukon Historical Society[7]
- Tongass Historical Society[7][3]
- Wasilla-Knik Historical Society
Arizona
- Apache County Historical Society[5]
- Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society[6]
- Gila County Historical Society[5]
- Graham County Historical Society[5]
- Maricopa County Historical Society[5]
- Mohave County Historical Society[5]
- Navaho County Historical Society[5]
- Northern Gila County Historical Society[5]
- Prescott Historical Society[6]
- Yuma County Historical Society[5]
Arkansas
- Benton County Historical Society[3]
- Clark County Historical Association[3]
- Cross County Historical Society
- Drew County Historical Society[11]
- Faulkner County Historical Society[5]
- Garland County Historical Society
- Glade Community Historical Society[11]
- Johnson County Historical Society[5]
- Ouachita County Historical Society[12]
- Pope County Historical Association (formerly Arkansas Valley Historical Society)[11]
- Pope County Historical Society[13]
- Pulaski County Historical Society[11]
- Saline County County History and Heritage Society[3]
- Sharp County Historical Society[3]
- Washington County Historical Society, Arkansas[5]
- White County Historical Society, Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
- Georgetown Historical Society
- Laurel Historical Society
- Lewes Historical Society
- New Castle Historical Society[6]
- Seaford Historical Society
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
- Adair County Historical Society[15]
- Allen County Historical Society[16]
- Anderson County Historical Society[15]
- Barren County Historical Society[15]
- Big Sandy Valley Historical Society[12][17]
- Boone County Historical Society[18]
- Boyle County Historical Society[19]
- Clay County Historical Society[20]
- Eastern Kentucky Historical Society[15]
- Erlanger Historical Society[18]
- Filson Historical Society[21]
- Hart County Historical Society[5]
- Henderson County Historical Society[6]
- Kenton County Historical Society[18]
- Kentucky Genealogical Society[12]
- Lincoln County Historical Society[5]
- Livingston County Historical Society[16]
- Louisville Southern Historical Society[22]
- Oldham County Historical Society[5]
- Red River Historical Society[16]
- Simpson County Historical Society[5]
- Woodford County Historical Society[16]
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
- Biloxi Historical Society[23]
- Bolivar County Historical Society[24]
- Canton Madison County Historical Society[5][23]
- Hancock County Historical Society[5]
- Hattiesburg Area Historical Society[3]
- Itawamba Historical Society[21][23]
- Historical Society of Jackson County[25]
- Kosciusdko Attala Historical Society[5]
- Lawrence County Historical Society[5]
- Lucedale George County Historical Society [5]
- Marion County Historical Society[24]
- Marshall County Historical Society
- Mississippi Methodist Historical Society[6][26]
- Noxubee County Historical Society[24]
- Pass Christian Historical Society[5]
- Pontotoc County Historical Society[5]
- Simpson County Historical and Genealogical Society[27]
- South Tishomingo County Historical Society[27]
- Tishomingo County Historical & Genealogical Society[5]
- Union County Historical Society[5]
- Vicksburg & Warren County Historical Society[5]
Missouri
- Adair County Historical Society[6]
- Bates County Historical Society
- Boone County Historical Society
- Cape Girardeau County Historical Society
- Clark County Historical Society[28]
- Grundy County Historical Society
- Holt County Historical Society
- Kimmswick Historical Society
- Miller County Historical Society
- Monroe County Historical County[29]
- Old Mines Area Historical Society[30]
- Platte County Historical Society
- Raymore Historical Society
- Shelby County Historical Society
- Saint Charles County Historical County[29]
- Warren County Historical Society
- Washington Historical Society
- Webster Groves Historical Society
- Westport Historical Society
- Wildwood Historical Society
Montana
Nebraska
- Arthur County Historical Society[6]
- Buffalo County Historical Society[14]
- Douglas County Historical Society
- Landmarks Heritage Preservation Commission, Omaha
- Nuckolls County Historical Society[5]
- Plains Historical Society and Museum, Kimball
- Washington County Historical Society
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
- Albuquerque Historical Society[12]
- Los Alamos Historical Society
- Los Vegas Historical Society[6]
- Luna County Historical Society[5]
- Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico - Roswell
- San Juan County Historical Society - San Juan County
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
- Bismarck Historical Society
- Cass County Historical Society
- Cavalier County Historical Society[3]
- Dunn County Historical Society
- Emmons County Historical Society[31]
- Garretson Area Historical Society[3]
- Grand Forks County Historical Society[5]
- McLean County Historical Society[32]
- Missouri Valley Historical Society
- Ransom County Historical Society[3]
- Richland County Historical Society[32]
- Stark County Historical Society[32]
- Steele County Historical Society[3]
- Walsh County Historical Society[3]
- Ward County Historical Society
Ohio
Oklahoma
- Cherokee Strip Historical Society[6]
- Cleveland County Historical Society
- Edmond Historical Society
- Garfield County Historical Society[6]
- Grady County Historical Society
- Hooker Historical Society[33]
- Keystone Crossroads Historical Society[33]
- Logan County Historical Society[5]
- No Man's Land Historical Society[6][34]
- Oklahoma City/County Historical Society[5]
- Payne County Historical Society[12]
- Pontotoc County Historical Society[6]
- Pottawatomie County Historical Society[5]
- Rogers County Historical Society[33]
- Sapulpa Historical Society
- Southwestern Oklahoma Historical Society[12]
- Spencer Historical Society[5][35]
- Tulsa Historical Society[6]
Oregon
- Benton County Historical Society[36]
- Clatsop County Historical Society[5]
- Cottage Grove Historical Society[37]
- Gresham Historical Society[37][38]
- Josephine County Historical Society[14]
- Lane County Historical Society[12]
- Old Fort Dalles Historical Society[6]
- Polk County Historical Society[37][38]
- Portland Historical Society[12]
- Sandy Historical Society[37][12]
- Silverton Country Historical Society[37]
- Southern Oregon Historical Society[36]
- Tillamock County Pioneer Association[6]
- Umatilla County Historical Society[39]
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
- Alta Historical Society
- Cache Valley Historical Society
- Delta County Historical Society
- Draper Utah Historical Society
- Fort Harmony Historical Society
- Iron County Historical Society
- Lehi Historical Society and Archives
- Morgan County Historical Society
- Park City Historical Society
- Riverton Historical Society
- Smithfield Historical Society
- Summit County Historical Society
- Tooele County Historical Society
- Washington County Historical Society
- West Jordan Historical Society
- West Valley Historical Society
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
- Berkeley County Historical Society[5]
- Doddridge County Historical Society[5]
- Fayette County Historical Society[5]
- Gilmer County Historical Society[5]
- Hancock County Historical Society[6]
- Hardy County Historical Society[5]
- Jefferson County Historical Society[6]
- Marion County Historical Society[6]
- Marshall County Historical Society[6]
- Mercer County Historical Society[5]
- Mineral County Historical Society[6]
- Monroe County Historical Society[5]
- Pendleton County Historical Society[5]
- Raleigh County Historical Society[5]
- Randolph County Historical Society[6]
- Ritchie County Historical Society[5]
- Roane County Historical Society[5]
- St. Albans Historical Society
- Summers County Historical Society[5]
- Taylor County Historical & Genealogical Society[5]
- Tucker County Historical Society[6]
- Upshur County Historical Society[6]
- Webster County Historical Society[5]
- West Virginia Baptist Historical Society
- Wood County Historical & Preservation Society[5]
- Wyoming County Historical Society[6]
Wisconsin
Wyoming
- Jackson Hole Historical Society
- Natrona County Historical Society[6]
- Saratoga Historical & Cultural Association
- Sheridan County Historical Society[5]
- Sublette County Historical Society[5]
See also
- American Association for State and Local History
- Family history societies in the US
- List of hereditary and lineage organizations in the United States
- List of historical societies
- List of learned societies in the United States
- List of subject matter-based historical societies in the United States
- List of time-period oriented societies in the United States
- Lists of newspapers in the US by state and territory
References
- "California Historical Society to Dissolve and Transfer Collections to Stanford", nytimes.com, January 28, 2025
- Su Kim Chung (2015). "We Seek to Be Patient": Jeanne Wier and the Nevada Historical Society, 1904-1950 (PhD thesis). University of California, Los Angeles – via escholarship.org.
- American Association for State and Local History (2002), Directory of historical organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.), Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, ISBN 9780759100022 – via archive.org
- "Historic Districts Coalition", dcpreservation.org, Washington, DC: DC Preservation League, retrieved November 15, 2025
- "Nonprofit Explorer", propublica.org, New York: ProPublica, retrieved June 26, 2025
- American Association for State and Local History (1944), Historical societies in the United States and Canada: a handbook, Washington, D.C – via HathiTrust
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - "Elva R. Scott Local Historical Society Award", alaskahistoricalsociety.org, Alaska Historical Society, retrieved July 9, 2025
- "Alaska's Digital Archives", vilda.alaska.edu, OCLC 850948178, retrieved July 9, 2025
- The Frontiersman, Palmer, Alaska, May 23, 1963 – via Chronicling America
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - "Nome Historical Society changes meeting days", Nome Nugget, Alaska, August 3, 1962 – via Chronicling America
- "Historians & Historic Organizations", encyclopediaofarkansas.net, Central Arkansas Library System, retrieved July 8, 2025
- Social Networks and Archival Context, United States: SNAC Cooperative, retrieved June 25, 2025
- "Early pioneers of Pope", Russellville Democrat, Arkansas, May 11, 1876 – via Chronicling America,
Report of Caleb Davis to the Pope County Historical Society
- Terry Abraham, ed. (2015), "Western United States and Canada", Repositories of Primary Sources, 1995-2015, University of Idaho Library
- "News and Notes: Local Societies", The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, vol. 62, no. 2, p. 162+, April 1964, JSTOR 23375901
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- "Local History and Genealogy", LibGuides, Kentucky: Big Sandy Community and Technical College, retrieved July 4, 2025
- "Kentucky Digital Library", kyvl.org, Kentucky Virtual Library, retrieved July 7, 2025
- Appleton Prentiss Clark Griffin (1907), Bibliography of American Historical Societies (2nd ed.), Washington DC: Government Printing Office – via HathiTrust
- "Annual History Awards | Kentucky Historical Society". KY Historical Society.
- Terry Abraham, ed. (2015), "Eastern United States and Canada", Repositories of Primary Sources, 1995-2015, University of Idaho Library
- "Historical societies in the United States", Officers, Act of incorporation, Constitution, List of members, Historical societies in the United States, 1896, Baltimore, MD: American Historical Association, 1896, p. 42+ – via HathiTrust
- "Local Historical Societies", mississippihistory.org, Mississippi Historical Society, retrieved July 10, 2025
- "Award Recipients: Outstanding Local Historical Society Award (formerly Frank E. Everett, Jr. Award)", mississippihistory.org, Mississippi Historical Society, retrieved July 10, 2025
- "O.S. scouts sell tags for county historical society", Pascagoula Chronicle-Star and Moss Point Advertiser, Mississippi, October 13, 1950 – via Chronicling America
- "M.E. Historical Society to meet", Hattiesburg News, Mississippi, October 21, 1913 – via Chronicling America
- "Partners", msdiglib.org, Mississippi Digital Library, retrieved July 10, 2025
- "Clark County's New Society", The Daily Gate City and Constitution-Democrat, Keokuk, Iowa, January 27, 1920 – via Chronicling America
- "Missouri Local Historical and Genealogical Societies Directory", shsmo.org, State Historical Society of Missouri, retrieved July 26, 2024
- "Links of Interest", frenchcolonialstudies.org, Illinois, US: Center for French Colonial Studies, retrieved July 20, 2025
- "Digital Initiatives: North Dakota Memories Collection", LibGuides, Bismarck, ND: North Dakota State Library, retrieved July 10, 2025
- "North Dakota State Archives", history.nd.gov, Bismarck, ND: State Historical Society of North Dakota, retrieved July 10, 2025
- "Partners", Gateway to Oklahoma History, Oklahoma Historical Society, retrieved July 7, 2025
- Michele Seikel; Tabitha Manners, Oklahoma Digital Collections (PDF), Oklahoma Library Association, retrieved July 7, 2025
- "Spencer Historical Society Binder 01 | Metropolitan Library System". www.metrolibrary.org.
- "Historic Preservation", Research Guides, University of Oregon Libraries, retrieved July 7, 2025
- "Regional Historical Societies and History Museums", Oregon Blue Book, Oregon Secretary of State, retrieved July 7, 2025
- "Contributing Organizations", northwestdigitalheritage.org, Northwest Digital Heritage, retrieved July 7, 2025
- "Home historical society commended by speaker", East Oregonian, Pendleton, OR, November 24, 1913 – via Library of Congress' Chronicling America
Further reading
- Julian P. Boyd. "State and local historical societies in the United States." The American Historical Review 40.1 (1934): 10–37.
- Leslie Dunlop (1944), American Historical Societies, 1790-1860, University of Wisconsin (thesis)
- Walter Muir Whitehill (1962), Independent Historical Societies: An Enquiry into Their Research and Publication Functions and Their Financial Future, Harvard University Press, ISBN 9780674448254
{{citation}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - Houston Gwynne Jones, ed. Historical Consciousness in the Early Republic: The Origins of State Historical Societies, Museums, and Collections, 1791-1861 (North Caroliniana Society and North Carolina Collection, 1995)
- Sara Lawrence (December 11, 2003), "History of Historical Societies in the U.S.", publichistory.org, US: Public History Resource Center, archived from the original on November 3, 2004 – via Wayback Machine
- Ryan Schumacher. "The Wisconsin Magazine of History: A Case Study in Scholarly and Popular Approaches to American State Historical Society Publishing, 1917–2000." Journal of Scholarly Publishing 44.2 (2013): 114–141.
- 2022 National Census of History Organizations, American Association for State and Local History
External links
- Library of Congress, U.S. State and Territory Guides, Local History and Genealogy Research Guides, Washington DC
- "United States Societies", familysearch.org, Utah: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (Mostly related to genealogy but includes links to historical societies).