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title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
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chapter_name: "AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION"
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# 36 U.S.C. § 21301 - Organization

## Text

American Historical Association (in this chapter, the “corporation”) is a body corporate and politic in the District of Columbia.

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

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 2130136:20 (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.