PAT Fact Sheet
- Established March 17, 1921 at the University of Arkansas
- 990+ chapters and over 400,000 members
- Historian journal published quarterly – circulation: 12,500 members and more than 1,000 libraries
- 8,500 initiates (annual average)
- 35 regional meetings nationwide each spring
- Over 25 scholarships and prizes awarded annually (doctoral and graduate student scholarships, undergraduate student scholarship, paper prizes, book awards, manuscript award, best chapter awards, student history journal awards)
- Membership qualifications (undergraduate)*
- Undergraduate students must complete a minimum of 12 semester hours (4 courses) in History, earned in the classroom, online or through AP or transfer credits (or a combination thereof). A minimum GPA of 3.1 in History and 3.0 GPA overall are required. A student need not be a history major to apply.
*Graduate students and faculty have separate requirements