Polish American Historical Association

The Polish American Historical Association (PAHA), founded in 1942, is a scholarly not-for-profit association devoted to the study of Polish-American history and culture.

Originally a section of the larger Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, the PAHA soon became an independent organization. On 11 September 1942, historian Oskar Halecki proposed the founding of an autonomous historical institution and chose Mieczyslaw Haiman of the Polish Museum of America in Chicago as its founding president.

Since 1944 the PAHA has been publishing Polish American Studies, an interdisciplinary journal focused primarily on the social sciences and humanities in relation to the American Polonia. It is currently edited by Anna Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann.

The PAHA is an affiliate of the American Historical Association.

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