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Above:: "The Fist." Keepsake from APHA's first conference in 1976.

Since 1976, the American Printing History Association has organized an annual conference on a selected theme in printing history. Conference papers are usually summarized in the APHA Newsletter. Many of the conference papers have been published in APHA's semi-annual journal, Printing History.

Many conferences also have keepsakes printed by dedicated volunteer printers.

Following is a complete list of APHA conferences (held in New York City unless otherwise noted). Information on the latest conference is here.

Year	Topic
2007	Transformations: The Persistence of Aldus Manutius (University of California Library, Los Angeles, CA)
2006	The Atlantic World of Print in the Age of Franklin (University of Pennsylvania, and the Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA) (see description)
2005	[r]Evolution in Print: New Work in Printing History & Practice (Mills College, Oakland, CA) (see description)
2004	Picture This: The Art and Technique of Illustration (University of Delaware, Newark, DE) (see program [HTML or PDF ] )
2003	New Work in Printing History (The Grolier Club, New York) (see brochure [PDF] and program)
2002	A New England Wayzgoose (Museum of Printing History. North Andover, MA) (see description) [Not a formal conference]
2001	Transatlantic Type: Anglo-American Printing in the Nineteenth Century (Washington University, St. Louis, MO) (see program; photographs)
2000	On the Digital Brink (Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY) (see program; photographs)
1999	Fine Book Design in the Twentieth Century (Grolier Club, New York, NY) (see description)
1998	Chicago Printing History (Newberry Library, Chicago, IL)
1997	Twentieth-Century Book Design (University of Texas, Austin, TX)
1996	Twentieth-Century Traditions of Fine Printing in California (Huntington Library, San Marino, CA)
1995	Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Printing: The Book in Jefferson's Virginia and the Early Republic (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA)
1994	APHA at Twenty: Celebrating the Past, Looking to the Future (Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY) (see description)
1993	The Humanist Printer (Providence, RI)
1992	Printing and Publishing History at Princeton: Materials and Methodologies (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ)
1991	A Washington Wayzgoose (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
1990	The Printing of American Newspapers from 1690 Into the Future (Columbia University, New York, NY)
1989	Colonial New England Printing (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)
1988	The Book Arts in Philadelphia, 1785-1840 (Philadelphia, PA)
1987	Government Printing in the Western Hemisphere: Technology, Design, Politics
1986	The Printing Surface
1985	Printing Without Type
1984	Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American Printing and Publishing
1983	Twentieth-Century American Typography and Typographers
1982	Nineteenth-Century America: Book Trade Technology and Social History
1981	The Mark of the Printer: Fine Commercial Printing in the Machine Age
1980	The Permanence of Ephemera
1979	The Renaissance Book
1978	The Decorated Book/The Crystal Goblet: A Reconsideration
1977	Printing Revolutions: The First Two and What They Can Teach the Third
1976	Typographic America: A Bicentennial Perspective