[1][2] The association sponsors an annual autumn conference on nursing history and publishes the annual Nursing History Review.
[1] The American Association for the History of Nursing provides important historical resources for helping nurses understand the importance of their profession.
[1] There are about 25 people serving in the AAHN as executives or members of the board of directors.
[7] According to Susan Mokotoff Reverby, the history of nursing emerged in the 1970s as an active area of scholarship, and the AAHN played an important role in this emergence.
[8] The AAHN annually presents, at its autumn conference, four awards for completed research in the history of nursing: Eligibility for the awards is restricted to AHN members.