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This is a partial list of historical and heritage societies in the United States This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
This is a list of notable hereditary and lineage organizations, and is informed by the database of the Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America.It includes societies that limit their membership to those who meet group inclusion criteria, such as descendants of a particular person or group of people of historical importance.
Dunlap, Leslie W. American historical societies, 1790-1860 (1944). Jones, Houston Gwynne, 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)
Society for Universal Inquiry 1843 1846 A Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform community. Sodus Bay Phalanx: New York Sodus Bay Fourierists 1844 1846 A Fourier Society community. Wisconsin Phalanx [5] Wisconsin Albert Brisbane [6] 1844 1850 A Fourier Society community. [5] Clermont Phalanx: Ohio: Followers of Charles Fourier 1844 1845
A historical society is non-profit organization dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting, and promoting the history of a particular place, group of people, or topic. They play a crucial role in promoting historical awareness and understanding by providing a platform for research, education, and public engagement.
Latvian Literary Society; League of Minnesota Poets; Lewis Carroll Society of North America; List of Lambda Iota Tau chapters; List of Signet Society members; Literary and Debating Society (University of Galway) Literary and Historical Society of Quebec; Literary circle; Literary Club of Cincinnati; Literary Death Match; The Literary London Society
Race in the U.S. is based on physical characteristics, such as skin color, and has played an essential part in shaping American society even before the nation's conception. [26] Until the civil rights movement of the 1960s, racial minorities in the U.S. faced institutional discrimination and both social and economic marginalization. [232]
There also is a fundamentally distinct type of literary society, that, although formed at a college and following the same forms and kinds of literary exercises, was limited to a small subset of the college. These are private literary societies, such as Phi Beta Kappa or Yale's Elizabethan Club. Membership is usually by invitation.