DHA Membership is open to scholars, institutions and organizations[1] and is an affiliated member of the American Historical Association (AHA) and the Organization of American Historians (OAH).
The Disability History Association[2] originated with informal conversations by a group of pioneering disability scholars at the Summer Institute on Disability Studies in the Humanities at San Francisco State University in 2000.
[3] The following year, they created H-Disability, a discussion group in the prominent online scholarly platform H-Net.
[4] In 2004, the organization held its first board meeting, and then the community was incorporated into the Disability History Association in 2007.
The DHA sponsors the Outstanding Publication Award, awarded annually to a book or an article which explores significant new ground in the field of disability history.