The United States Historical Society is a private organization dedicated to fostering increased awareness and appreciation of America's culture and history through the publication of books, sponsorship of projects, and the artful reproduction of objects that have interesting historical significance, and through this process to assist cooperating museums, historic homes and other organizations to raise funds for their worthy missions.

The symbol of the Society is the Double Eagle. One eagle looks proudly to the past, the other confidently to the future.

The late Pulitzer-prize winning historian,Virginius Dabney, was founding chairman of the Society's Advisory Board.