Founding Member
Founding Member
Become a Founding Member of the American Society of History, Arts and Letters.
An international academic and cultural society based in Orlando, Florida, bringing together writers, historians, researchers, educators, scientists and artists across borders.
The Academy promotes knowledge, encourages intellectual and creative production, and works to preserve memory as a legacy for future generations.
It brings together writers, historians, researchers, educators, scientists, artists and intellectuals dedicated to the study, preservation, and international dissemination of knowledge.
When an intellectual or professional path matures, a question arises: where will this trajectory be formally recorded? The Academy answers through seats, honors, calls and a community of prestige.
ASHAL belongs to a global family of sister academies, founded by members united by a shared mission — ABHL in Brazil, ASHAL in the United States, with expansion envisioned for Europe. Each academy has its own identity and governance; the bond between them is a declared partnership.
A limited number of founding seats for writers, historians, researchers, artists and educators who wish to help establish an international academy — with permanent registry in its founding records.
Collections, decorations and distinctions with current applications and nominations.
Become a Founding Member of the American Society of History, Arts and Letters.
Each seat honors a patron and welcomes a trajectory dedicated to culture and knowledge.
Decorations and distinctions that celebrate contributions to language, science and culture.
Public records will be displayed after institutional validation.
Studies on heritage, history and memory signed by Academy members.
Rio, May 1894: a reader opens the magazine and finds a new story by Machado. It is printed here in full — a conversation the narrator never understood.
Letters from the interior of Ceará, printed in Rio in July 1877: 4,619 migrants counted on a single road, families eating wild plants, children left behind on the way.
Five men, twenty-one years, and a machine of repression that outgrew each of them. A study of character, and of what character does when it holds absolute power.
Events, investitures and recognitions from the Academy and its members.
ASHAL has been established in Orlando, Florida, as an international academic and cultural society devoted to History, Literature, the Arts, Culture, and Science.
The Founding Member distinction is granted once, at the beginning of an institution's life. Applications are under review.
Two independent institutions, one intellectual tradition — and why readers will find studies here that were originally written in Portuguese.
Born in Fortaleza, Brazil, Anapuena Havena built a trajectory that unites literature, history and preservation — founding the Brazilian academy ABHL in 2021 and, from that experience, establishing ASHAL in the United States.
Based in the United States, she leads The American Society of History, Arts and Letters and conducts editorial projects, anthologies and study cycles.