APA History and Archives

           

APA was founded in July 1892 at Clark University. Its first president was G. Stanley Hall and it began with 31 members. After World War II, it expanded and grew quickly. Today, APA is the world's largest association of psychologists, with 54 divisions and more than 134,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students as its members.

Joseph “Joe” McVicker Hunt joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois in 1951. Hunt was already a productive contributor to American psychology by this time, but the years at Illinois were the peak years of his intellectual and professional life. Just one year after arriving at Illinois, he served as APA president and by the end of his first decade there had authored one of the most important volumes on child development, “Intelligence and Experience” (1961).

Collections Oral histories archive Governance archive Photo archive Historical test collection Historical film collection Classic books Coin collection APA materials at the Library of Congress

Resources Presidents of APA Presidential addresses Directory of annual meetings APA membership statistics APA Governance Survey Report (PDF, 709KB) Obituaries Psychological images in publication APA: An Historical Perspective

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