---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 21301"
title: "36"
title_heading: "Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations"
number: "21301"
heading: "Organization"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/36/21301"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Patriotic and National Organizations"
  - "Part B — Organizations"
  - "Chapter 213 — American Historical Association"
---

# §21301. Organization


American Historical Association (in this chapter, the “[corporation](/usc/36/220501.md?p=b-7)”) is a body corporate and politic in the District of Columbia.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1294.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 21301 | 36:20 (1st sentence words before “for the promotion”). | Jan. 4, 1889, ch. 20, (1st sentence words before “for the promotion”), 25 Stat. 640. |

This section is substituted for the source provisions for consistency in the revised title and to eliminate executed and unnecessary words.