The History Division was formed in 1965. A number of outstanding scholars have led the division over the years:
2021-2022: Cayce Myers, Virginia Tech
2020-2021: Will Mari, Louisiana State University
2019-2020: Teri Finneman, University of Kansas
2018-2019: Erika Pribanic-Smith, University of Texas-Arlington
2017-2018: Doug Cumming, Washington and Lee
2016-2017: Michael S. Sweeney, Ohio
2015-2016: Kimberly Wilmot Voss, Central Florida
2014-2015: Yong Volz, Missouri
2013-2014: Kathy Roberts Forde, South Carolina
2012-2013: Lisa Burns, Quinnipiac
2011-2012: Tim P. Vos, Missouri
2010-2011: Ann Thorne, Missouri Western
2009-2010: Elliott King, Loyola
2008-2009: John Coward, Tulsa
2007-2008: Debbie van Tuyll, Augusta State
2006–2007: W. Joseph Campbell, American
2005–2006: Dane Claussen, Point Park
2004–2005: Pat McNeeley, South Carolina
2003–2004: Janice Hume, Georgia
2002–2003: David Abrahamson, Northwestern
2001–2002: David Davies, Southern Mississippi
2000–2001: Carolyn Kitch, Temple
1999–2000: Kathleen Endres, Akron
1998–1999: David T.Z. Mindich, St. Michael’s
1997–1998: David Spencer, Western Ontario
1996–1997: Barbara Reed, Rutgers
1995–1996: Nancy Roberts, Minnesota
1994–1995: Pat Washburn, Ohio
1993–1994: Louise Benjamin, Georgia
1992–1993: Barbara Cloud, Nevada-Las Vegas
1991–1992: Nickieann Fleener, Utah
1990–1991: Roy Alden, Idaho
1989–1990: Betty Winfield, Washington State
1988–1989: Maurine Beasley, Maryland
1987–1988: Jeffery Smith, Iowa
1986–1987: Jean Folkerts, Mount Vernon
1985–1986: Owen Johnson, Indiana
1984–1985: Marion Marzolf, Michigan
1983–1984: Warren T. Franske, Nebraska-Omaha
1982–1983: David Nord, Indiana
1981–1982: Jerilyn McIntyre, Utah
1980–1981: Terry M. Hynes, Cal State Fullerton
1979–1980: Sam Kuczun, Colorado
1978–1979: Robert Kahan, Iowa State
1977–1978: Paul V. Peterson, Ohio State
1976–1977: Thomas H. Heuterman, Washington
1975–1976: Mary Ann Yodelis Smith, Wisconsin-Madison
1974–1975: Donald L. Shaw, North Carolina
1973–1974: John D. Stevens, Michigan
1972–1973: Catherine Covert, Syracuse
1971–1972: Richard A. Schwarzlose, Northwestern
1970–1971: Ronald T. Farrar, Southern Methodist
1969–1970: Joseph L. Morrison, North Carolina
1968–1969: William E. Ames, Washington
1967–1968: William E. Ames, Washington
1966–1967: Warren C. Price, Oregon
1965–1966: Warren C. Price, Oregon