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.f ' .. , ! ., "t :r:o the Congress of the Unit~d States: ~ accorcIance with the act of incorporation of the American Historical Association, approved 4 January 1889, I have the honor of suhnrl~g to Congress the Annual RepOrt of the Association for the year 1967.· .. Respectfully, J \ I S. DILLON RIPLEY, Secretary 1 ,I iii l\ t \ .~ j \ J ~ " 1 ,I .~ ,> -" ~< , t. ~ \' Letter of Translll.ittal . +r THE AMERICAN mSTORICAL ASSOCIATION Washington, D.C., 15 June 1967 To the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution: As provided by law, I submit her~with the 'Annual Report of the Am.eri~an Historical Association for th~ year 1967. This consists of two volumes. ..' . Voluine ,I contains the pro!=ee~gs bf the, Associat~on for 1967, and the report of the secretary-treasurer of the Pacific Coast Branch for 1967. . Volum.e n will contain the Writings on American History for 1965. PAUL L. WARD, Executive Secretary iv " ------~------.------~~- _t? ~. " *,,"' " ,; {\ ~, .. I I THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIA TION is a nonprofit, Il1eIl1- 'I' ,.If bership corporation created in 1889 by special act of Congress for the proIl1otion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical Il1anuscripts, and the disseIllination of the fruits of historical research. Persons interested in the study of history, whether professionally or otherwise, are invited to Il1eIl1bership. Present paid Il1eIl1bership is about 16,000. 'I The Council of the Association, its executive body, Il1eets twice 1 a year. The work of the Association is carried on by its officers, , . I Council, and staff, with the help of an extensive systeIl1 of COIl1- J Illittees. The Association holds an annual Il1eeting with a three-day ! prograIl1 DeceIl1ber 28-30 of each year, at which tiIl1e Il1any pro I fessional historical groups Il1eet within or jointly with it. The Pacific Coast Branch of the Association holds separate annual I Il1eetings on the west coast and publishes the Pacific Historical f Review• , The AIllerican Historical Review has long been recognized as • the official periodical for the historical profession in AIl1erica. It is published five tim.es a year and sent to all Il1eIl1bers. In addition to the Review, the Association publishes its Annual Report, prize books, the list of doctoral dissertations in history, bibliographical and other volUIlles, and the AHANewsletter. The Service Center for Teachers of History publishes a paIl1phlet series and sponsors conferences designed to aid history teachers. The Professional Register serves as a placeIl1ent service for historians. The Association1s capital funds are Il1anaged by a Board of Trustees. Much of the incoIl1e froIl1 these funds is earIl1arked for special purposes, so the Association Il1ust depend chiefly upon Il1eIl1bership dues to support its broader educational purposes. ." Annual Il1eIl1bership, including subscription to the AIl1erican His j torical Review, is $15.00 for regular Il1eIl1bers, $7.50 for student Il1eIl1bers (faculty signature required). Life Il1eIl1bershipis $300.00. '\ Questions about any phase of Association activities Il1ay be addressed to the Executive Secretary,AIl1ericanHistoricalAssocia tion, 400 A Street, S. E., Washington, D.C. 20003. ) v I \.. if !I I .,) L~ e, " .. TABLE OF CONTENTS ,j. ... I. !' Page ,J " -II ,I Act of Incorporation••...... • ' •.•.•.•.... I •••••• ix 0onstitu.tion .•...•.•.•...•..•..•..•.•.•••••. xi 1968 Officers, Council, Nominating Coznmittee,andBoard of Trustees .•..• . ~. . • .....•... -...' xv Officers' Reports, 1967 '•• 1 Executive SecretarY. • • , ••• 3 Managing Editor. ;. , , , ,,', , , ,', 6 Treasurer . "•. ' ..' ....•.. ~ •. -.-;. a ••••• 8 Draft cbudg ets· " .. , , ,-', , ,', 13 , Membership ,ata·tistica, , • , , " 14 Minutes· of, Council Me e ting s, 1967, " , , 16 Minutes 'of Business Meetin:g.' 1967 ~ , , , , , " 31 Annual Meeting, 1967', ~.;', 'o'., ;. , , ;. , 35 Program: Ghairman's Report ~ , 37 Synopsis of PrograIIl ;.', , ~ , ... -. 48 COIIlInitteesalid Delegates ,',' 67 NoIninating CoInInittee, 69 COIIlInittee on CoIIlIIlittees 70 Prizes' an~ Honors ....•.••.• -.•••' ... 71 COIIlInittee on Honorary MeIIlbers , , ;. " , 71 List of Honorary MeIIlbers ,',', , , , , .. ,', , , .. 72 CoInIriittee on Prizes and Awards" , • ,', 73 COIIlIIlittee on the HarIIlsworth Professorship •• 74 List of Prizes and Awards '. ""~ • ;. , • , ••• 75 COIIlInittee on the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize 76 CoInInittee on the George Louis Beer Prize. 77 COIIlInittee on the Albert J. Beveridge Prize 77 , " The Albert B. Corey Prize .' •••••••••••• 79 ComInittee on the John H. Dunning Prize ••• , 79 1 CoInInittee on the Clarence W. Haring Prize 79 i CoInInittee on the Littleton-Griswold Fund. , •• 80 COIIlIIlittee on the Robert Livingston Schuyler Prize .- .... e' •••••• ~ •••••• 81 I COII1II1ittee on the WatUIIluU Prize. • " 81 Teaching and the CurriculUIIl. , ,. , , • , 82 { Service Center COII1II1itteeon Teaching. ;. 82 l CoInInittee on University and College Teaching, 85 ( VII r I ! ,tL ;;j , ' 'J ') f \' . " 'w vm AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Page Teaching and the Curriculum.,Cont'd Committee on the Feature FilIns Project •••••• 86 6 • . ... Committee on the Professional Register ••••••• 87 I" ~ Committee on Ph.D. Programs in History •••••• 88 ./ Research and Publication •••••••••••••••••••• 90 CoIpnlittee pn the Historian. and the Feqeral. Gov- ,,' e,=-e~t ,.•• , ••...... •.•••.•...•• ,. • •.• . • '90 Committee onNa tional.Aid to Historical Re- s~~z:cp...... ,a •••• , •• _•• ,a ••.••••' r. • • 91 Committee on the ;F;r~edo~ of Historical, Inquiry. .. '92 Co~ttE;e qn BipliograpQigal ,SerV;ices I to History. 93 Comm.j.~ee on ~titative pata in History•. «, ••• • 93 Com~ttee qn,4meric;:a,n-~ast ,Asj.ap. Relation~ ...... ', 94 Co~ttee qn Ip.~e,rIia,tj,onal $~toric~l Activities •• '. • • 96 Committee on C,o~e1D,oration.. of; the A me ric a n RevQlu~ion, Bic,eIltennial •••••• ' ••. i .,,, •• • • •• • 97 JoiIlt COp).mittee fo~ ~e D~fe:nB,e of the Rights of, Histp:rians lJnder ,~~ First A-m,endnlent,. •• • .. • • • • 98 Joint, Committee. of tl1eG~dia.n Historical Associ- ation and the AmE;ric;a:n$~tp:ric~~s sociation. • .. • • 100 Joint Conunitt~e oIl, ~he. Sta~u,s of 'the Natio.nal Ar- cPivel;J ••••••••• ,. ,•••.•••• 18 ~ •••••••.••••• 100 Delegat~s I Reports" 1967 Advisory Gom,mitt~e ~o the Marquis Bibliographical Li~~a}:y Society :i- ••••• '. i. 1a -••- •••••' •••••• 101 American Council of Learned Societies •••••• 103 A:ngl9--American' Commj,.tte~ on Bibliographies of B~i~sh Histo~y •• '., ••• '••• 'e, • < ••••••••••• 104 Central Atlantic RegiQll.a1 EducaJ;ional'Labora~ry • 105 Consor~iUI'Il of Professional ,A.s_s.ociCl.tions for Study , oj Special TeaCher I~p~ovement Programs •••• 106 Comite Inttl.r~tional ges Sciences Historiques ••• ," 109 Inter~ti()nal Textboolt Project•• , ...... 109 National Council, fo:r .. Accreditation of Teacher Edu- cation ...... ,...... 110 :Natiqnal Council for the Social Studies--So.cia1 Edu- .. cation' ••••' •.• ~ • •i r • •• *' •••••••••••• 110 Natiqnal I:Iistori~al P\lblications Commission,. III Socia,]. S.cie:nge Research Council 113 Ac;l Interirn.Appo~tm~nts, 1967 ••••• 114 Annual Report of Pacific· Coast Branch ••••• 115 List of Offic~rs :for 1968 ••••••.•••••••• 117 Report for 1967 .•.•••..•...... • 119 List of Doctoral Dissertations in History Recently Com pleted at Colleges and Universities in the United States •• 121 .' t. ,. -.. ~, .I ACT OF INCORPORATION 'j , ' r .. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of AInerica in Congress assembled, That Andrew / D. White, of Ithaca, in the State of New Yorkj George Bancroft, of Washington, in the District of Columbiaj Justin Winsor, of Cambridge, in the State of Massachusettsj William F. Poole, of Chicago, in the State of illinoisj Herbert B. Adams of Baltimore, in the State of Marylandj Clarence W. Bowen, of Brooklyn, in the 'I State of New York, their associates and successors, are hereby j created, in the District of Columbia, a body corporate and politic by the name of the AInerican Historical Association, for the pro , , 1 motion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical manuscripts, and for kindred purposes in the interest of A:merican history, and of history in AInerica. Said Association is authorized to hold real and personal estate in the District of Columbia as far as IIlay be necessary to its lawful ends, to adopt a constitution, and IIlake bylaws not inconsistent with law. Said As sociation shall have its principal office at Washington, in the Dis trict of Columbia, and IIlay hold its annual IIleetings in such places as the said incorporators shall deterIIline. Said Association shall report annually to the Secretary of the SIIlithsonian Institution, concerning its proceedings and the condition of historical study ! in AInerica. Said Secretary shall communicate to Congres s the whole of such report, or such portions thereof as he shall see fit. l The Regents of the SIIlithsonian Institution are authorized to perIIlit said Association to deposit its collections, IIlanuscripts, books, paIIlphlets, and other IIlaterial for history in the SIIlithsonian In J stitution or in the National Museum, at their discretion, upon such conditions and under such rules as they shall prescribe. ~ The real property situated in Square 817, in the city of Wash " ington, District of Columbia, described as lot 23, owned, occupied, l. and used by the American Historical Association, is exempt froIIl ~ all taxation so long as the same -is so owned and occupied, and not used for cOIIlIIlercial purposes, subject to the provisions of sec \I ¥ tions 2, 3, and 5 of the Act entitled, "An Act to define the real property exeIIlpt from taxation in the District of Columbia,".ap proved 24 December 1942. ) [Approved, 4 January 1889, and aIIlended 31 July 1957.] { IX \ ,1 \ 'II ~ !.j .,~ '. "\ ! t. ~.. ":. " CONSTITUTION .I , ARTICLE I' The nameofth'is soCiety shall be the American Historical e 'As s bci'a'tion. \ ( ... "" .) .,f ,ARTICLE U J 'Its object shall be the I>rciniotionofhi~torical studies. 'ARTICLE ill kp,y pe:rEio,n apprqved ~y the COllI!9iJ. may b.~come an active member of the Association. Active membership shall date from the receipt by ~e Tr.easurer <;If ,~eJj,rst, p,aymElnt q£ dlles, whi<:h shall be $),.5.00 a yea! or ,a ..sillg~t:lp~rmentF!£ $?Q9.00,for life. Life me#tkers~R is given men$~;t:s'o/ho. haye ~elonged to the Associa tion fo"r fifty ye!i,rs. ~y student regu!a~~y registered in an ins~itu t~on gf l!'la:r:n41g ,a.nq app~9yedcbythe. .counci]. may be!=ome a junior ! member of the Association upon the payment of $7.~0 and the certificati.on, of ¥is stcatus .. as a EI~dent bya faculty me.mber qf his lnstitutio:n, .ap.dafter- the ~:rljl.t year ~ay contin~El as ,such. with the approval of the CoUncil, by paying annual dues of $7.50 and present ing evidence of his status as a student. Annual dues shall be pay able at the beginning of the year to which they apply and any mem ber whose dues are in arrears for one year may, one month after I the ~a.iling. of a nqtice of such deljp,quency to his.~ast known addresE!" be dropped from the rolls by vote of tlte Council.or the 1 Executiye Committee. Memb.ers who have beencs() dropped. :may be reinstated at any time bythepay:mentofone year's dues in advance. I Only active me:mbers shall have the right to vote or to hold ()ffice in the A,ssociation.Persons not resident in the Vnited States,:may be elected by the Council as honorary or corresponding :members, ! and such members shall be exempt fro:m payment of dues. i " ! ARTICLE IV SECTION 1. The officers shall be a President. a Vice President. a Treasurer, an Executive Secretary. a Managing Editor of The A:merican Historical Review,and, at the discretion of the Council, ) an Editor and an Assistant Secretary-TreasUrer. I SECTION 2. It shall be .the duty of the Executive Secretary, \ under the direction 6f the Council. to promote historical scholarship .~ in America through the agencies of the Association. He shall exer cise general oversight river the a:ffairs of the AssoCiation, super ~ vise 'the work of its committees, formulate policies for presenta 1 tion to the CoUncil. execute its policies and perform such other .\., duties as the Council may from time to time direCt. SECTION 3. The 'other officers of the Association shall have such duties and perform. such functions as are customarily attached to their respective offices or as may from time to time be prescribed J .' by, the Council.' . . ' " ~ XI ,I '-r----~---~~. --~- " " ' :. Jj .. xu ~IGAN ftISTOl}10AJ.. ASSOCIATION .J SEC TION 4. The President, Vice President, and Treasurer shall be elected in the following m~e,r':;:iThe Nominating Committee at , , such convenient time prior to the first of September as it may de ter.nU,nesh~ 4tvit~, e~,g,h JI:lemP,e.~ of tlle ;Asl:I.C?J.c.ia~i9nJ(), Hldic~te his " " ,I" ~ or her nominee for each of these offices. With these s-q,ggeEJtion.s in. "! mind, it shall draw up a ballot of nominations which it shall mail .. to each member of the Association onorbefore the first of Decem "" ' ber, and which it shall distribute 'as the official ballot at the Annual Busines s,M~!'r~~g. It s,haJJ. pr,e~,e~~ ,~,Ws,) ~ee~~gpra1ly' fYlyC?ther nominations for these offices petitioned for to the Chairman of the Conunittee at least one day b,~o!,,~tlle Business Meeting and sup ported by the D.a;mes of ~enty voting ~embers of the Association. 'The election shall be ina'de:from'tliese nofu.iilatidns -at the Business Meeting•. _' .';,' -"\i<" , ,,;, ,,' SE~rrON ,~.~eExe'Ctitive Secr~tary,theNssistant Secr~~rY Treasurer,' the,-Ma:iiaging- EditOr 6f The American HistOtica1 Re' view, and ·the' Editor' shall be 'appo~tedb'y the CoUncil for sp~cifiea terms' of office :notto' exceed'three years, and shall l?e elig~ble for reappointment. They shall' receive such compensation as the CounCil may deterrnme. J" ,; " , . , SEC-TION 6. If the office 'of' Presidentshau, through any cause, become vacant, the Vice President shall thereupon become Presi- dent. ' " AR1J,OLEV SECTION 1. There shall bea Cout"cil, constituted as: follows: (a) The President, the Vice President, th'e Executive'Secretary, the Treasurer, and the Managing Editor of The American Historical ReView. ' (b) Elected m.em.bers, eight in ntimber, chosen oy ballot in the manner provided in Article VI, Section 2. Theserriembers shall be elected, for a term of four years; two to be elected each year, except in the case of elections to complete unexpired terms. ' " (c) The former Presidents, but a former President shall be entitled to vote for the three years succeeding the expiration of his term, as President, and no longer. " . SECTION 2. 1:11e <;;o~cil shall c;onduct the business, manage the property, and care Jor the gen,eral interests o~tp.e AS,sociation. In 'the exercise of itsp:r;qper functions, the Council may appoint such com,mittees, cony:nis~ions, and bpards as 'it ~y deem, necessary. The ,Council shall make a full report of its activities to the Annual Meei~g otthe .t\.,ssoci~tici'n;' The As so c;:iation l'XlAY by vote at any .Ann~ Me~ting"inElt~uct the, Council to diElcon~1l,e o~ enter upon any ;activity, and may take such oth,er.,action directing !:he affairs of the ,AssoCiation as it may deem necess,ary and proper. SECTION 3. For t¥-e tr~ac~ion of necessary bllsiness when the Co:u,ncil.is not in sesl\lion, th,e Council shall elect annually from its membership an ExecutLy.e, COm,mittee., of not more than six mem b~r'~ \V:hlch shall, inclucie" tlie#Xecu,tiv~ Se~retary and the Trea,surer. Subject always to the general direction of the Council, ~e Executive Com,mittee shall be responsible for the management" of Association interests and the carrying out of Association policies. ~ '; ~ ~ . " .. " , CONSTITUTION XIII J ARTICLE VI ; , $EC!ION 1~ :Th,er,e s4~4 be:,a Nor¢na~ing';Co~ttee)o consist of ii'l!'~ Inem.bersJ , ~acl),of whom. shall., serve a ter:r:I1 of two years. In <1 .. the o4d''':llunlbered yea:rs, two newm.e~bers shc01be elected;.in the r even-num.bered yea~s, tilree; t;w.~ alternation shall c9n(inue, except "~ .fd ,1 ,; . in the case of elections to com.plete unexpired,term.s. If vacancies o~ the NOxclnating Cornm.itt~e occur betw~en the Hm.eof the AnnUal • _', • , " " ,', ~ :) .: _." -', , '1- " .. _ • '.' .' 1 Elections, the Nom.inatJ.ng CpInn?ittee shall fill them. by c4rect ad ;nt'e:t"~~ ~ppoinhnents ~.' ,;...... • ," ';:.' . " 1 SECTION 2.Electl,Je~~IT.J..bers of t~e Cq,!:]]-cll find m.eIl!b~rs, of the Nom.inating Com.m.ittee shall be chosen as follows: The Nom.i nating Com.m.ittee shall present for each vacant m.em.bership on the Council and on the Nom.inating Com.m.ittee two or m.ore names, in cluding the nam.e of any person who m.ay be nom.inated by a petition carrying the signatures of twenty or m.ore voting m.em.bers of the Association. Nom.inations by petition m.ust be in the hands of the Chairm.an of the Nom.inating Com.m.ittee by Novem.ber first. The Nom.inating Com.m.ittee shall present these nom.inations to the m.em. bers of the Association in the ballot distributed by m.ail as described above. The m.em.bers of the Association shall take their choice from. am.ong these nom.inations and return their ballots for counting not later than the 20th of Decem.ber at 6 p.m.. No vote received after that tim.e shall be valid. The votes shall be counted and checked in such m.anner as the Nom.inating Com.m.ittee shall prescribe and shall then be sealed in a box and deposited in the Washington office of the Association, where they shall be kept for atleast a year. The results of the election shall be announced at the Annual Business Meeting. In the case of a tie, choice shall be m.ade at the Annual Business l Meeting from. am.ong the candidates receiving the highest equal vote. ARTICLE VII ., i SECTION 1. There shall be a Board of Trustees, five in num. ber, consisting of a chairm.an and four other m.em.bers, nom.inated by the Council and elected at the Annual Meeting of the Association. Election shall be for a term. of five years except in the case of an ! election to com.plete an unexpired term.. The Board of Trustees, acting by a m.ajority thereof, shall have the power to invest and reinvest the perm.anent funds of the Association with authority to em.ploy such agents, investm.ent cpunsel, and banks or trust com. panies as it m.ay deem. wise in carrying out its duties, and with further authority to delegate and transfer to any bank or trust Ij com.pany all its power to invest or reinvest; neither the Board of I Trustees nor any bank or trust com.pany to whom. it m.ay so trans i fer its power shall be controlled in its dis cretion by any statute or ~ (. other la~ applicable to fiduciaries and the liabilities of the indi 't vidual m.em.bers of the Board and of any such bank or trust com.pany , \ shall be lim.ited to good faith and lack of actual fraud or willful )( m.isconduct in the discharge of the duties resting upon them.. " ," '\ r I J ( j I. . , 1 XIV AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ARTICLE VIII SECTION 1. Am.endm.ent,s to this.~ons.titution may)le prQposed b-y a'majority vote ofanY'i-egi4ar"bli~iliess session of the Ass'ocia tion or by i majo,rity vote Of theCoWldl !arid rilfly' be adopted by a ... majority'vqte Of'th'e neXt regular business session.prdVidedalways that the proposed amendment and an explci.natlon thereof shall have been' circulatedto~ the rllembership of'the Associatioh not less than twenty' days precedlD:g tne date of the Dusmess:sesshm ahvhich'the finci.l vote is to'b~ tall:en. it shiillbe the'duty' bfthe Executive'Secre tary to arra,nge for the distribution of all such' pioPcis'ed amend- ments"amongthe, members of the .A,ssociafiQn. ~ , ' ,." ' -',_J - I' -"'" . .~. ·1", " '{ " 1, , . ,/ 1968 OFFICERS. COUNCIL. " • .. NOMINATING COMMITTEE, ~ '" « " / 1 AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES ,I OFFICERS' PRESJ.I)gNT JOHN K. FAIRBANK Harv!!rd, University, VIC~" PRESIDENT i c. VANNWOODWARD ,! Yale University " TREA~R. 1 ELMER I:.OUIS KAYSER George Washington University I EXECIJTIVE SEC,RETAR Y. PAUL L. WARD American Historical Association MANAGING EDITOR HENRY R. WINKLER " American Historical Review ASSIST ANT EXECUTIVE. SECRETARY ROBERT L. ZANGRANDO 1 American Historical Association I COUNCIL \ EX OFFICIO t THE PRESIDENT, VICE PRESIDENT, TREASURER, 1 EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, AND MANAGING EDITOR } xv ~ fl ( ".". -. \ .. ". \ '";- XVI AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION .,J FORMER PRESIDENTS ,. CHARLEs H; McILWAIN Harvard UniversitY , ,-' - " - - ~ , ~ ': ' , '" - ..~.'~ : r .. KENNE'IH S. '·LATOURETTE . l til Yale University . . ./ SAMUEL E.MOrusON Harvard University LOUIS R. GOTTSCHALK University of Cblcago MERLE'dURTI University of Wisconsin DExTER PERKINS' University of Rochester ~ - I I ;. ~ ~ , " ;, WILUAM L. LANGER Harvard University . , -I',' ALLAN NEVINS Henry E. HuntiIigtori Library BEfu\lADOTTE E~ SCHMITT Universl~of Chicago SAMUEL FLAGG BEMIS Yale University •CARL BRIDENBAUGH Brown University , i JULIAN p. BOYD The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Pririceton University " VOTING FORMER PRESIDENTS . FREDERIC C. LANE ROY F. NICHOLS University of Pennsylvania HAJO HOLBORN Yale University E liliCTED.. MEMBERS THOMAS C. COCHRAN University of Pennsylvania (term expires 1969) PHIUP D. CURTIN University of Wisconsin (term expires 1970) , , " , , , " J S ~ ~ · , " . ,. OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF '!HE COUNCIL FOR 1968 XvII '" DAVID'M. PO~R Stanford University (term, expires 1971), CAROLINE ROBBINS ~ Bryn Mawr College (t~ El?CPids 1968} \ , f f ~. ". r' 'iJ CARL E. SCHORSKE ,> '" ., University o(Califor~(term ElXPire~ J968) JOHN L. SNELL, JR. } University of Nort;h. Garo~B; (t~'i~ires 1969) , _, ~ _ .. ~ J, LYNN WHITE, JR. University of California,(t~ E!}CP~es 1971) Wll.LIAM 'B. WILLCOX' ',' University of Michigan (term expires 1970) EXECUTIVE COMMlTIEE THOMAS C. COCHRAN University of Pennsylvania JOHN K. F AlRBANK Harvard University ELMER LOUIS KAYSER George Washington University PAUL L. WARD American Historical Association WILLIAM B. WILLCOX University of MiChigan HENRY R. WINKLER American Historical Review ", NOMINATING COMMlTIEE BRYCE LYON, CHAIRMAN Brown University (term expires 1969) MERRILL D. PETERSON University of Virginia (term expires 1969) LEWIS W. SPITZ Stanford University (term expires 1969) CHARLESF.DELZELL Vanderbilt University (term expires 1970) FREDERICK B. TOLLES Swarthmore College (term expires 1970) ~ '" ~ \ ') 334-554 0-69-2 -'," .- , . XVIII AMERICAN HlsroRIGAL ASSOCIATION ... BOARD OF TRUSTEES W. A. W. STEWART, JR., CHAIRMAN' : U.S. Trust Company of New York (term expires 1973) PERCY EBBOTT ., \- # .' r Chase National Bank of New York (term expires 1971) .. , ' ... CECIL FITZHUGH GOROON Tucker, Anthony & R. L. Day of New York (term expires 1969) STANTON GRIFFIS Hemphill, Noyes & Company of New York (term expires 1970) JULIAN ROOSEVELT Dick and Merle-Smith of New york (term expires 1970) " " ," , -0-: ~ . . . " i' • , " 1967 Officers' Reports " ,I, .. J) '"\ ; , .' 'OFFICERS~ REPORTS .i " .:;-:-;'~ /,' ....'. 'j h/.: .V} ~ i ~~l ;/" ./-")( 'i:j;,,}'~' l:~ " ~ '\ .;.. !, :.' .. .~;TJ ~'.;} 'j) (\ j. t' 1 '. ''I t ~"';,<->-,,:«, ~" 1 , " " .; ,,, ,.' 1..' ,~ .' . :-~.~ ; ',1 ~ t ,I ! I'. ," "', '1 ~ -:.." " ,. t.. _,',-; j :c--;;; :.n , ,1. r ~'-i:- "1(. .' ~ '1 1" Th~year,1967, .ioi,thejM~p~f~~o~;s:,~ta# ami cciWm.!tt~,i ~'~.~~ore ~ y~ of,laying gr,oundwor~ ~,.a,x~, gt, !=om.pletipns. Many of,~~~~ts will d~erv~ l'ub~c, report, PIllY; W~~, ,C~~:mi~' JP,fruit/.0J!., J3,ut the f9~owh;lg"deserv~!l mentiop,~ p,art,9f an, QY~ew. of ili~ Y'*!f:., 'I, ,; ;j'"" ., ,'" "".' , , Th!,! on~ hllIJPy,exceptio~ was th~ ~~.coll}e ~ th~ fJ:'ic~X. S~eveIlfl cas~;~ so the ~g up of,~~ w~k'af $~Joplt c;:,oguqi~ tor the l?,efense of ~e Rights of Historians l!J¥l~., tl}e F#"s~" ~eqclm~~ }", Friday IIl9xmng session ~ b~en & arr~ed t,o~tW;p'0w t;he Joint COmm1~~'s experi~cesome ,lessons for,~ture \t. ~es of, chap.~e" 'I:'I;le ,,~o.un~er~t ipp~t:qted in federal c~ts, ',the wide ne~s pap~ 'llub~city, ,die ge):!et:ous F~,()I}S~ ,W m~s tq the, appealforfu,nds, and the pr~.,~,ge 0r.J¢.g~ Clint~n,W~~',sdegsion JastMay, all wese and mu~ ,e1s~ h,ave .hEllp~. p1~e ,th~ three-.y~~ ordeal, by I?r., S~evens ,into a l~son that Will det~ ,uIifQ~edsll;its, a~ ),aw against i4tur,e his,torical publications • ..As contr~tFo ~,1:af1k,C:9mpleted.; 1 .. giv~ firstlllace, to tQe workof'tl1ei ney.r Co~~e on. Ph,Q •. J?rggrams ~,1,listory. Tl).e Ol:;F0beJ;,Ne\VSlett~ carri~ i~ statetpent of,. ,staD!iardS for" such prograIllS. ByQoUJ;\g! Ilction last ~ the Committee has twe~ve months in which to moveto,ar4 'a}i$,~~, ,~prov~ pr.oP;.ams in specifIc ~titut1ons. Its aim is, to clarify .8pP,I;'0~j~t~ s~~gs~ii~~!'!t'eby to 'encoUJ;'~e cquntryv.ride mwrovement, ,Tllis ~, !l .lgg~ :job, d~~g~~,~st efforts of YllUJ; sta#.' "'., " ,'," , : ' ',' ,;. ' , .• . A number"af, specific sc:h,qlarly,p~~j~tshIlY~ ~ m()Ving ah~:.4t"tl].ftime of $,is present meeting Ith~·fepOl\t Qf;,~lsprip,g's Ine~t:ingr~,tQ~ J!lMi~Blli,lio graphical CoIJllll1.tte~,p:i"app~if1g iz!. prln,t ~ a bOok en#lied Bibliography and the Historian. edited by DF,. p~grp.ar P~aiI:.andJl9PefullYWi*ih~Il~ ~9 ptonths a fO,UIldaqon grant, Wi,l1 ap~~ c:o~s~owng Ii hiBtoria,n },q:p~~~lote in " detail tPe applicati9Il. of r~~y ,new bib,liogr~h,j,cl!l tec,liniques, to,th~ ne.e,qs. of our profe~~ion.. . .,". '. '.' ,'; ," ..., . :. ' C)" . ':: Two other projects~e possibJe initia.lly by grailts' ~om. t,h~ ~acl9rUiJ. Eildowj ment for the Humanities have been proceedfng well The Co~ft~r"pnQl\~~q!.tiye Data has h~ld t\'fQ wor~ confer.~ces $!sfall on Goroparlltiv~)i~'tQrical ~ta#Btics, with Ja,co)J P1:;ice, as \,s~ dir~qr. puriIig t!J.e s'1'mt'leJ;'B. t~~i~ ,of ~W s¥ients, under the direction, Qf~7&.,.AlleIl. s~PPed ~e c:ol()¢atcoUrq'~01(dS in several eastern states for cas~ to il1ustrat.eq-~om und.er law•. ',,' . A; , ' On Labor bay a new Committee on Americ~EaStAsianReiadOris .metior the first time to ,co~l!'l~~ the f~ul~ti,ori C!f apr:ojecrihat~~ecmentiy hal'! been !: discussed with foundations. This attempt to bring to the expertise, ,Of 'l Will bear both AmeriS8.Q.,dJplomatic ~torians and Far Eastern spe$lists op,.the c.ornplex cultural fr()n~er betwe~ Mn,ericans and Easi.As~s~r:ecent t¥n,~, ~i a,fWlljest that has heretofore fallen l:Ie.twe.en ,the ~o ~~ti~. Y;our S~cr~Plf}'.!sa1so tallq.ng to pos~ible do,nors, abo)lt If project for specialfel).ows¥p~in,pre~ and Roman I)jstory, for w~cq thepr()SPE¥=ts"seem good" .' '\; ..' " ',,; " A numbElI' ofp1!iIIS for federal gOVernmen~ ac!;ic;m !tavei.mportanc,e f9J;' histori ans as,scholaz:~. The Congress early this teartl,lrn¢~ 1;he,,Rennsylvania ~venue "\1 I, 3 ~ "i ~ " , .~' ,. ',. 4 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION .I Commission to formulate plans for a Center for Scholars, to be located just north of the present Archives, as part of a memorial to Woodrow Willson. Word is that : the plans are taking shape substantislly along the lines of the proposal set out in Julian Boyd's presidential address of 1965, although the focus will be less upon historians than upon the full range of disciplines exemplified in Woodrow Wilson's .J I career. Legislation to make possible this memorial can perhaps not be expected .. until after the elections of next November. , I "" . The position otthe. Natiollal Archives .inthe federal governmeI)t has been the subject of careful 'study by the Joirit'Coinmittee on the StatUs of the National Archives, appointed a year ago. Financial assistance has generously been provided by the Council on Library Resources, to allow preparing an adequate report, and we all hope tha~ the coming weeks Yfill see favorable develop~en~ in consequence, The Ass'oCiatiohthroilgli its staff and conimlttees has at the same tiIne lent support to the proposal in tlie' Senate to establiSh aNatfon~Sodiil Scitmce FowicIation, but like 80 many other generous and importiliiiprqjects this'has been lield Up by the . stringenCies arising from the current war. The 16ng;.awaited revision Of the copyrigllt law also hiiS. been subject c# AHA studyiibd representationS to the senate. and this legislation similarly has been held up,tDoUgh iii this case the cause is a need to explore further the implications of. new technology, ' The'varioUs programs' of federal aid, to educationhilve contiriued to Sbsorba considerable fracrlonof the ,time of our professional staff. Your Secretarym .weeks past has served, as consUltant on Ii major effort by the Office of Education to enlist 'andencoUragecoOperatioh-onidutatlon facultles ,and 'arts andsC1ence faCulties and ,schoolleadership--allthree elements~in improVIng teacher tralning a,t th~ hl,ghesi: leyel. TheCoh$orf!um" Of PfofessiolW Associations for SpeCial Studies of Teaclier ImpI'ov&\leIit programs, ch8lred this .yearby J 000 Thompson a's tile 'Association's c;lelegl;l.te, has r'eOtgariizoo and proi'nises' to be much more effeCtive in bringilig' tile 'best staridardS Of scholars and speCIalists to bear on various"Office of Education' projects. ." .. , ,.;...... , , X'most interesfingeffort 'to' eXplore and clarify the usefulness of motion pictures' for history teaching has d'eVeioped this year out of a project launched under .a small grant from the Office of Education's Bureau of Research, The S~c¢"c;entef,by pr~aring a spectalpamphletanda sample newsouiid track for a documentary film, hopes now to poirit die way toward the better use of films in secondary school teaching, 'A special ad hOC coIllrillttee; acting fOr the,Coriuniitee on UniversitY; ana College Teaching,: is ~ engaged oriaproject to create,: 'for use " as assignments iIl colleg~cOurses, "packages" rather lik~ bOoks'of reaCtirigs, each consisting'of a cartridge of selectedfootiigefrom a major feature film accompanied by a selecti,0n.9f reaclings ,to Illatch !IIld balance, This project seems a promising way' to make' plaIner the 'role of discipline ,iri the stimulation and gUidimce of hiStorical lmagiIiatio'n:.·' . . " ' ...... The service Center; s regUlar vlork hasgohe forward with its usual quiet effectiven.ess, ItS'gUall:ty was partiCui~ly tinderlih'ed this}allby the sini~taneous publication of three paJilphlets;:-on'the Arli~1cari Revolution, the Frencli Revolu tion, and recent ImperiaJ.iStn, the fitst of' whfchis .a summary of' scholarship that cdn hearten us all ~s we' look forward to 'the 'wave of indiscriminating interest that aheali.is certain . to accompany".' '. the Anlerican:' RE&olution Bfcentetmial. in' tlie. __ years __ just _ This range Of activities, and the continued growth of the Association, have in cre8.~ecI the rieooto rethink the role of the Association under the'nl'!w conditio~s of s~1iolariyworK in our country. Th'e Review has shifted tllls fall to five issues a yeai:to 'meet' pressing needs, and under Henry Winkler's able edito.r~hip bas maintained its distinction and high degree of uSetuIness. A special eVenmgpiin:gl at th.e meet;ip.'gthis year is reVieWing ci-~rl:~y the toie of ow Anilual Meeting. A 70 per cent response to' thej:!!rectoryqtiestionriaire sept.out to members last '. spring has been entered on IBM cardS,SO that-we' maydraw from ~it' some statis-' tical information on the composition of the Association. · ,~, '" ., ", , '.~ ,,~ ~ OFFICERS' REPORTS 5 ~l In all these matters the priorities, and the satisfactions for the members of your staff, have centered in helping make clearer the role history should play in the tbinking and activities of today. I am grateful for the quality of understanding and cooperativeness that again this year has so consistently characterized the work of the Association's committees, officers, and office staff. My particular gratitude goes to Henry Winkler, upon his forthcoming resignation as Managing t Editor, for the unfailing good judgment and good teamwork with which he has t·$' responded to my needs for advice andassistaDl~ein learning to serve the Associa ,l .; tion during these past two and more years of its adjusting to new situations and ., challenges. " Paul L. Ward, Executive Secretary ", ,', , ", '. l; , ., \ j , , { 1\ '\ ,.; .. , , AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION J : l' ,J >' .("' I' ,/ , J REPORT OF THE MANAGING EDITo:R This will be my last annual report as editor of the American Historical Review. I have informed the Board of Editors and the officers of the Association that I have accepted the post of Dean of the Facriltyof Liberal Arts at my university, Rutgers, and thai I will r'emain as editor until a successor can be appointed, at the latest by 1 july 1968. Whether I have served the profession well is for the members of the Association to judge; that my experience as editor has been an enriching one is to me unquestionable. I leave the editorship with real regret, not the least because I have had the privilege of working with a dedicated and efficient staff at the Review. Partricia Fox, Rita Howe, Betsy johnston, and john Appleby in Washington have been largely responsible for the care and the expertise with which the Review has been produced, and jane Burks in New Brunswick has made it possible for a largely absentee editor to function with the minimumpossible waste of energy and time. It has been rewarding, too, to work with officers as devoted to the scholarly and pedagogical interests of our profession as are Paul Ward, Elmer Kayser, and Robert Zangrando. And I have been genuinely honored to be permitted to learn as much as I have from the distinguished scholars on the Board of Editors who are largely responsible for ensuring that my judgments are sound and my sense of proportion reasonably balanced. .', The details of the past year's operations can be quickly summarized. Volume LXXII (October 1966-july 1967) contained 1635 pages, some 20 pages more than the previous volume. Aside from the advertising matter that is highly useful to readers and that constantly seems likely to crowd out the articles and reviews, the volume contained almost exactly the same number of 'reviews as in the previous year, 967 as compared with 966. There were eighteen articles and one symposium in addition to Roy F. Nichols' presidential address "History in a Self-Governing ;' Culture." Seven of the articles were on modern European history, eight on United States history, one on medieval history, and two on ancient history, a relatively standard mixture the content of which is much more important than its distribu tion. Contrary to editorial predictions, .some fifty fewer articles were submitted than last year. In part, the reduction appears to reflect some growth in the under standing that the Review is seeking articles of genuinely broad treatment and appeal, however narrow or specialized the subject matter. In part, it seems to be a matter of timing, since the number of articles submitted since 1 September 1967, . has once again gone up in comparison to earlier periods. FigUres, however, hardly begin to indicate thatVolumeLXXll was a memorable one in the history of the Review. It was the last volume of the quarterly publication of our journal. Beginning with the October 1967 issue the Review has gone on a five-times-a-year schedule, a major change in format that should make it possible, as I urged in earlier reports, to soliCit reviews of more books, to give space once again to some longer and more wide.;.ranging reviews of major new works, to publish an occasional unconventional article, and to seek out informed discussions of general issues of interest to the entire profession, for example on methodologi calor philosophical or bibliographical questions. I flatter myself that with the help " 6 .~------~------~------' .. ,OFFICERS' REPORTS ' 7 J of many colleagues I have moved the Review in a modest way along the road described in the October issue. The Board of Editors believes that the Review should continue its traditional course, publishing articles that reflect the most important original work that is " t being done in various fields. The Board also feels, however, that the Review " fl' should seek to attract manuscripts that interest a wide segment of its sub , scribers. TPeReview '!V1ll hQPe tq publish, $er,~ore, articles th~t may be read .1 with profit by thespeeiallStfor their intriJisic'interest: ot' bY the nonspecialist for the insights iriio'methodolo~chlprobtemS theyoff~, for the fruitful com parisons they suggest, orfor the speculative generalizations they may stimulate. But I have no illusiQns. It will be illY successp~,~h9 wil}. hav.~.the ~lc <¥, ~p~oying the fi've;is~esip \y~ys thatwilfmjucEdhe' R~ew ·even~inqr.e tis~ tom~s of'the AfuericaIi'HIStorital ASsoc~~on ~ to.:btl.!~. t1adet~, mcreaJ~.#iglyI:~ coining to feel~t, ~e present' 'foI'niatOf,,/@ otlf jour~i!? WCe~y ~o ungergo major duinges 'withlli the ·ne)tt cOUll1e o(aec,@e~, Tlie tec1uiolo~f~; c?~ges '!=1ia~ alr'eady bave oeen 'r~cbg$eq as' dppC#tunitfe~' rathertliaiJ. ~oyanc~sby ,chemistS and ,med1ca1 'scholin'si, bypsycb6loils~ 'and "1lligtiit"ts, by . musicologiSts and sociologiSts; aie~goihgto have, t6 'be coped ,With: by iUstorums, itin!iY' w~ll !ie, ~t journals 4I tl1!! ftI9ite· willco\lt'a.ID, an ai:1:icJe 9'r. tWo ,~Yefyg~eral'Hiter,est, or particUlar1)' ~legant1y ;,vritten,or of oveiTidiilg-historiCBl sign#icarice, but then a , relatively· large ntim15et of brief !iutlior":pI'epar~ab§tr~ci:s.'TI!e ab$trac~ could . point the way to easily duplicated copies of arti¢les tbatcan he furt:@~eci to those ~ who order'them Tw' a: IiliIilinaI fee; A iitJit:iber of editors' ofhlstOricaI journals have " been reflectiDgoii, su~h possibilities, aildl.ani 'i::onviI!.Ced that tlieir atitftidoliiB focused on a real is~e. The enormous':p.oQ(iof print with VJhiclIsch~lar.!lhave t9 i< cope is, Gleai'ly going to have to be controlled in more'manageable form thimis' the , current practiCe. ',' "'.' " .' .' ','.' . Ours !is a conservative discipline, ahd we ~ve lagged behind others in seeing the possibilitieS iriherentin thetciols and'machiIies of our Clmtemporary teelinology. To illustrate, the tiple is' iong oVerdue' wlien ~e proViSion of hibUbgraphis:al materials should be placed oJ;i a D;tucli more systematic basis t\lanis ()urcurrent practice. Historians ,will have to cooPerate -at the very'ieastwith :>Qcialscientists ,, and humanists in working out not ohly:cq6I;dipate(t ~ffiscauy' achievab~e systems of computer-controlled c;listribtf~on of hlbliograplifcal ~a~eri!!1s, In~u~h a task the scholarly'associationS '?ill! have to b~ filllyfmrolved, and Witbiri those associa " tions the 'editors of jourrlalS Will have to pl'ay key roles. The task Of a new teditor, then, will be, in my judgment, more extensive and more difficult than was that of ': my predecessors or myself. But his opportunity to serve the profession will by that token be comparatively greiner. I must not go on at length, since this is a report and not a funeral oration over an expiring editor. But I do not want to conclude without expressing my gratitude to the two members of the Board of Editors who are finishing their terms at this meeting. Joseph R. Strayer and C. Bradford Welles have given freely and wisely of their time to the business of the Review, and it would be superfluous for me to do more than thank them. I can ohly go back to what I said at the beginning of this report. I have learned enormously from scholars such as they, and I will leave the Reyiew deeply indebted to the Council of the Association for the chance to have worked so closely with so many first-rate historians and first-rate human beings. I hope and believe that I will leave the Review to my successor in good condition. And I hope that his experience will be as rich and satisfying a one as mine has been. ' I Henry R. WInkler, Managing Editor t"" i l- I " t_,______~~------~--- "j ~ t r" ~ .i, '1, ." .r~ ~ . " .. ' "\,. AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION .I : " ~. . '" .;f REPORT OF THE TREASURER FOR . FIsCAL YEAR 1966-1967 ,Th~. American Histor~cal ~s~iation headquarters ~d its eqgipm~t are valued' at $147.294.66 •. On 31 August 1967. the ,Association had $67.587.69 in cash .fot geiler-.al' Pti:tp9ses. Temp?!;SrY iIiyestm~D;ts 'CI.f unrestricted funds ~oun.ted:to . j $~48;S77.15;$1.065 .. 65 was iii receiVables. Funds. llIlrestricted as to use of income and in the cust6 Elmer Louis Kays.er, Treasurer " 8 OF' L ~ c . , .' OFFICERS' REPORTS 9 J AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION BALANCE SHEET 31 AUGUST 196'1 and 1986 ASSETS •. " . r ~ ~ .. .., General. Fund: Cash ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• $ 67,567.69 $ 42,894.43 Due f'raI ~570,916.08 BDd $497,634.73) ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 394,542.68 ~173.B3 Total general. fund ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••' ••• 511,776.37' 518,131.20 Special Funds and Grarita: Cash ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 120,912.14 114,510.01 Due fraa General. Fund •••••••••••••• '•••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1,,702.62 T~ inveBtJoenta, Bt cost (market value - ,55,037.23 and $129,422.61) ••••••••••••••••••••••• : ••••••••••••••. 55,890.20 131,079.76 Permanent investments, regular accotmt, at cast (market value - $250,852.03 and $242,210.54) ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 173,356.28 173,3S6.28 PeI'llllnent invest.ents, Matteson B.cCOtmt, at coot (market value - $121,086.15 and $115,899.91) ••••••••••••••••••••••••• 9.1,784.94 ~.23 ~ Total. special i"undB and granta ••••••••.•••••••••••••••••••• 441,943.56 ~857.9O Plant Fund: Property, plant BDd equi_t, at coot ••••••••••••••••••••••••• 178,208.20 128,069.89 Lese: Accumuleted depreciation•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 30,913.54 26,733.25 ~ Total plant fund ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 147,294.66 ~336.64 ~ ~ General Fund: t, 552.89 401.79 I Unrem1 ttad payroll taxes ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Special escrow funds ••••• 600.00 600.00 Due to Special Funds BDd Grant ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1,702.62 J1 Fund balance •••••••••••••••••••••• 510,623.48 515,426.79 Total general fund ••••••••••••••••••• 511,776.37 518,131.20 t Special Funds BDd Granta: Fund balance ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 441,943.56 ~7.90 Total. special i"undB and granta ...... 441,943.56 512,657.90 ,1\ Plant fund: ) Fund balance •• 147,294.66 101,336.64 Total plant fund •••••• 147,294.66 101,336.64 f Totals ••••••• ,1,101,014.59 $1,132,325.74 i~. . ,'I, 10 AMERICAN HISWRICAL ASSOCIATION .J AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION : STATEMENT OF REVENUE AND EXPENSES.- GENERAL FUND YEARS ENDED 31 AUGUST 1967 AND 1966 « I <" 1967 1966 ~ .,. Revenue: .1 Dues •••••••••••••••• $209,474.00 $140,562.25 American Historical Review •.• 53,569.37 34,470.79 Annual lleeting ••••••••••••• 40,015.15 32,884.43 Investment inOClDl:e ••••••••••••••••••••••• 31,094.26 . 23,995.65 Royalties, publications and misc .....•...••.•...... • 8,367.69 5,310.10 Gain on sale of investJ:nente ••...... •.••...... •..•...... 41,298.05 60,921.33 Total revenue ...... •.•.•...•.•...... •••.....••.... 383,818.52 298,l44.55 Expenses: Salaries ••...••. ; ...•..•...... •••••.. 66,934.72 96,560.89 Annuities - retirement ••••••••••• 3,,67.67 3,710.49 Retirement pay ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 758.29 641.63 Travel ...... ••.••.••••...... •... 4,471.85 13,443.69 Payroll taxes .....•••••.••..•...... •...•.•••••••...... •.... 4,837.19 2,788.20 Em;ployee.s I insurance .•••••• "...... 1,530.92 891.24 General insurance ...... 1,3Ol..45 Office expense ...... -0 ••••••••••••••• 14,008.06 13,113.26 House operating expense •••••••••••••••••••••• 3,149.13 4,741.36 Office furniture and equipment •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 6,698.57 5,506.00 Auditing and legal expense·...... 35,040.50 13,068.43 American Historical _Review: Salaries .•••.•...... ••...... ••••.•• \ . 45,722.03 Notes and artie lea ...... 3,487.50 3,134.25 Publication, printing snd distribution ...•.....••... "...... 69,858.97 65;286.05 Office expense ...... ". 16,259.68 Newsletter ...... ".••••.•...... • "...... " 14,536.38 9,014.67 Annual subvention - Pacific Coast Branch ...... 700.00 300.00 Council and cOlJll1i ttees ...... 10,199.99 9,080.46 Spedal projects cCJll!littees ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 635.40 21.19 Annual l&!eting •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 24,759.51 10,552.15 Data processing supplies ...•.• 0- 0- ...... 11,354.07 Dues •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 740.95 400.00 Harbert Baxter Adama Prize •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 300.00 Building maintenance and repair ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 588.49 Investment management fee ••••..•. " .....•••••..•.••.••.... 3,019.00 3,047.00 C~ting~t and miscellaneoUB. __ ...... '" •• '" ...••..•.•.... 1,077.50 ~771.30 Tota1 expenses ...... • '" ••••.•. $344,9'2.33 $257 ! 660.75 Excess of revenue over expenses ..... 38,866.19 40,483.80 Prepared on a cash baais, except for aocrual of revenue as noted. !'! , /'0 l 1 ( OFFICERS!' REPORTS u ? J J s AMEmc~ HlSTOmCAL ASSOCIATION y c"-", ..~' , ," ' J::r J ,,-,_ '\ '- ; , , j ,< : j: STATEMENT OF RE.:YENUE ~ E)!PENBES - GEr!!E~ FUND COMPAIlED WITH ANNUAL BUDGET J YEAR ENDED Si'AOOUST 1967 ~ ) .f 'v ! Over or ; (Under) .' j I Actual ~ ~ '" ? Revenue: j, Due••••.•••••••••••• 209,474.00 =,000.00 (526.00) Amerioan Historical Review ...... 53,569.37 31,000.00 22,~9.37 Annual meeting ••••••••••••••••• 40,015.15 26,000.00 12,015.15 Investment inCCllll! •••••••••••••••• 31,094.26 24,000.00 7,094.26 Royalties) pubUcaUona and. mise 0- 6,367.69 7,000.00 . 1.,367.69 Gain on sale of investnlente ...... o.o...... 41,296.05 41,298.05 Total revenue ...... 363,616.52 300,000.00 83,8is.52 Expensee: Se.laries .... 66,934.72 66,000.00 934.72 Annuities - retirement •• 3,~7.67 3,600.00 (32.33) Retirement pay •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 756.29 760.00 (1.71) Travel. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 4,471.85 10,000.00 (5,528.15) PsYroll taxes ...... 4,837.19 3,000.00 1,837.19 Employees I insurance ...... , ...... 1,530.92 2,200.00 (669.08) General ins1.tt'8.Ilce ...... 1,304.45 1,304:45 .' Office expense ...... 1.4,008.06 ~,000.00 5,008.06 l{o~e operating expense ...... o...... 3,l49.13 6,000.00 (2,850.67) Office furniture and equipment ••••••• 6,696.57 4,000.00 2,698.57 Auditing and legal expense •••••••••••••••••••••••••• . 35,040.50 1.2,000.00 23,040.50 American Hi.toric.l Review: Salaries ...... 45,722.03 44,000.00 1,722.03 Notes and articles ...... 3,467.50 3,200.00 267.50 Publication, printing IUld dietributioo •••••••••••• 69,858.9'7 66,000.00 3,856,9'7 Office expense...... 16,259.68 4,000.00 1.2,259.68 Newsletter ..... 14,536.36 15,000.00 (463.62) Ann\\&l subvention - Pacific (bast Brancb•••••••••••• 700.00 500.00 200.00 Council and COIIIIlittees ..•..•. "." ...... 10,199.99 10,000.00 199.99 Special proJecte cCllDittees •••••• 635.40 635.40 Annuall6oeting ...... 24,759.51 8,000.00 16,759.51. Data Proces6ing ...... 1l,354.07 9,000.00 2,354.07 Duee ...... 740.95 600.00 140.95 Herbert Baxter Adama Prize ...... JOO.oo 300.00 " Building maintenance and repe1r ...... 2,500.00 (2,500.00) InvestD!ent management fee ....•...... • .- r •••••.....•. 3,019.00 3,500.00 (461.00) Contingent and miscellaneous ..... 1,0TI.5O 2,500.00 (1,422.50) Total expenaes ...... 344,952.33 265,360.00 22!.592.33 Excess of revenue over expenses ...... $ 38,666.19 $ l4,64O.oo $;)4,226.19 I l, Prepared on a caBh basis, exoept for accrual of revenue as noted. J 1 J { j 1 ,• I " / I ~ l It 1 12 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION .; I AMERICAN :ifisTORICAL AsSOCIATION STATEMENT OF cHANGES nnNDIVIDUAL SPECIAL FUNDS AND GRANTS (ON A CASH BASIS) YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 1967 ~' .. Balaccee Balaccea j-,- to'll' 1 Sept. 1966 InCCllll8 Expend!tures , . ' ,Ftmd or Grant ~.1%7 " " JI Ad..... Prize Ftmd ...... $ 3.94 $ 3.94 .I Asia Foundation-Travel and llemberahips ••••••••••••••••• 4,500.00* 3,924.57 575.43 Beer Prize Ftmd ••••••••••••••• 9,068.25 294.00 9,362.25 Beveridge Prize Ftmd •••••••••• 131,208.56 4,663.41 6,,56~.17 127,310.62 Ca'rn.egie Corporation Grants: Hiat. o:f Amer. Education ... . .71. .71. Travel. to Internat ·llltgs .. . 453.30 161.5E1 291.72 Corey Prize Ftmd. 5,559.19 92.75 5,651.94 council on Library Resourcea Status of Nat'1 Archives .... 2,500.00* ~,493.31 1,006.69 Dunning Prize Fund •••••••••••• 9,713.30 73.50 300.00 9,466.60 Endowment ••••••••••••••••••••• 43,747.33 4,267.50** 46,034.63 Ford Foundetion Gracts: Bibliog. of Brit. Rist. 3,123.12 2,500.00 623.12 Conf. on latin Am. Hist. 76,972.05 1,653.60 59,381.00 19,244.65 Nat '1 ,BiBB in Textbooka ••••• 2,932.13 692.60 2,239.33 Ftmd for the Defense, etc. . .. 4,709.44 6,553.91* 5,103.90 6,159.45 Haring Prize Ftmd ••••••••••••• 3,563.07 8,069.36*** 500.00 1l,152.43 The Historical. Center Fund .••• 37.00 36.00 73.00 History as a Career Fund 224.56i/ 531.31 306.73 J. Pracklin Jameson Ftmd •••••• 5,995.71. 410.09 6,405.60 Littleton-Griswold Ftmd ••••••• 48,031.65 1,935.93 500.00 49,467.58 IIatteaon Ftmd ••••••••••••••••• 132,659.62 5,220.39 457.00 137,423.21 NDEA Institutes Evaluation •••• 7,190.501 15,000.00* 1l,032.19 3,222.69* Nat 'I Endowment for Human! ties: Comp. Historioal Statistics. 6,250.00* 1,649.70 4,600.30 Colonial Court Reoords •••••• 5,000.00* 6,076.71 1,076.71* Survey of Biblio. Services .. 20,600.00* 16,207.60 4,392.20 DE Grant-Film Cri terls Study •• 2,500.00* 3,297.24 797.24* Professional Register 1,207.17 2,217.35 1,016.40 2,406.12 Ftmd for Repaira & Renovation. 3,324.16 3,324.16 Revolving Fund for Publica- tions ...... 4,302.43 174.69 4,477.12 Fund for Service Center ...... 31,412.95 35,736.04 76,332.44 9,181.4H Schnyler Prize Fund ••••••••••• 465.34 1.6.29 100.00 381.63 ," Watumull Prize Ftmd ••••••••••• 500.00* 500.00 White Prize Fund •••••••••••••• 1,762.34 42.00 1,624.34 $512,657.90 $126,900.12 $199,614.46 $441,943.56 , Debit balacce * Contributions and gracte ** $487.50 represents contributions and grants *** $8,000.00 represents contributions and grants , ' " .~ '" .;.'~< . . " .. J '" ',' \ fl OFFICERS' REPORTS 13 "" ~. DRAFI' BUDGETS, 1967/68, 1968/69 'l' Actual Original Proposed Proposed 66/67 Propos.d Revised 68/69 iF ..!!lf2L ~ , ,\ !!!QM. ,-t Dues ...... 209,474 224, 000 222,000 234,000 i ' r ,. AHR ...... 53,569 30,000 60,000 65,000 .l" Annuallioeting ...... ~,015 22,000 25,000 45,000 ~. InvestzDent Inccme ...... 31.,094 25,000 '30,000 32,000 " Royalties ...... 8,368 6,000 8,000 8,000 t '" (, t $342,520 ,307,000 $345,000 $384,000 ;:. DISBURSDIEIlTS Salaries ....•...•...... •.. 66,935 70,700 76,700 81,300 j:" Annuities ...... 3,568 6,000 4,500 5,700 ijc Retirement ...... 758 1,000 1,000 1,000 ,~:--","~ Travel. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 4,472 10,000 5,000 5,000 Payroll taxes ...... 4,837 6,000 6,000 6,000 Insurance ...... 1,531 General. Insurance ...... 1,304 2,500 2,500 2,500 Office expenses ...... 14,008 9,000 9,000 9,000 House operating expenses ...... 3,149 6,000 4,000 4,000 ~, Furniture & Equipment ...... 6,699 4,000 4,000 4,000 Auditing & Legal ...... 35,040 10,000 10,000 10,000 '1,\ AlIIerican Historical Hevi...... 135,329 141,300 144,300 164,300 AHA _lett.r...... 14,536 15,000 16,000 17,000 ~; Service Centet** ...... 9,400 43,200 26,000 _J,'_ Pacific Coast Branch ...... 700 500 500 500 :', .~~:"I- Council & CoIIGitte...... 10,200 10,000 Special ProJecte ...... 635 10,000 10,000 Annual Yeeting ...... 24,760 8,000 10,000 12,000 Data processing ...... ll,354 9,000 9,000 9,000 Dues ...... 741 600 600 2,000 Bldg. IllBintenance & repair ...... 5,000 2,500 2,500 ' " Investment .I4rt. Fee ...... 3,019 3,500 3,500 3,500 Contingent & lIiBc...... 741 2,500 2,500 2,500 't Herbert Baxter Ad ..... Prize ...... --.2QQ. --.2QQ. $344,816 $330,000 $364,800 £377 ,800 *See below for analysis of the American Historical Review. **See below for analyaia of the Service Center . ....ANALYSIS OF 'SERvICE CENTER BUIXlET Actual Original Proposed Propoood 66/67 Proposed Revised 68/69 ..!!lf2L ..ff!f§L DISBlmsEllEHTS " Salari.s ...... 19,856.08 21,400 24,700 27,000 Office expenses ...... ~ ...... ~ ...... ~ .. 23,698.08 6,000 11,000 ll,ooo llaillng cost ...... ~,917.·71 3,500 4,000 4,500 ~vel •••••••••••••••••••••• ~ ..... ~ ... 328.10 1,500 1,500. 1,500 Yaes & Prod. Coots ...... 2),537.03 25,000 35,000 35,000 danrerences ...... ~ ... ~ ...... 3,893.38 5,000 5,CX)(). 5,000 f ProJect Development ...... l~.oo ~ $'76)2.4 *:~ @:~ @:m less: { Sales ...... 35,738'.cv.: 55,000 40,000 60.000 ~,5~.40 Revolving Fwld ...... 31,412.95 To general aocounts ...... $9,181.45 ¥ 9,400 $43,200 $26,000 *AliALYSLS OF AMEluCAN 'HISTORICAL REVIEW BIJlXlET DISBURSBIIENTS salor:lee ...... 45,722 49,300 52,300 72,300 Hote. & Artlca...... i .. . 3,488 4,000 4,000 4,000 Printing & Diotributicm ..... ,...... ,69,859 84,000 84,000 . 84,000 Of £lee e:zpeIUIes ...... *13~:;W f14i:%l $u1:~ ~164 300 \\.~ " " I, f 14 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION '" MEMBERSHIP STATISTICS AS OF 1 DECEMBER 1967 .. I.~ 15 Dec. 15 Dec. I: 1966 1%7 , Total I.Iembership: ; \ Honorary ••••••• 17 19 l t Life ...... 399 408 ':L , 1" Annual ...... 15,014 ,,15,269 ,... Trustees ...... 5 5 ) I Fifty-year members ...... 35 31 t, 15,470 15,732 I 1 Total paid membership, including life members ...... 15,413 'l5 ,677 '\ Delinquent members ...... 1,:380 2,162 .~ TOTAL !.!!l!BERSHIP ...... 16,793 17,839 ',"'---:: .. Cains: Life .members ...... 0 0 ... 0 0 ...... 0 ...... 45 13 Annual members ..... 21~8~ 2, 2 ;J~ '''' Losses: Deaths - Honora.r:r IlielIlbera ...... o ...... 3 2 Life JlIieUlbers ...... 8 4 Fifty-year members ...... 4 .3 (.. " Annual members ...... 40 . 35 " ~ ~ .Resignations ...... __ ...... 169 117 Drop ...... ~. 1,3~ 1,074 1,4 Net Gain ..... 1,7.54 Ij046 TOTAL IIEl!BERSHIP ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 16,793' 17,839 II. IIEl!BERSHIP BY STATES 15 Dec. 15 Dec. 15 Dec. 15 Dec. 1966 1967 1966 ...12§L AJ..ab81m!. ••••••••••••••••••• 93 110 New flalnJ'Jshire ••, •••••••••• 68 96 Alaska •••••••••••••••••••• 10 18 New Jersey ...... • 543 6()1, Ariwna ••••••••••••••••••• 74 83 New Mexico ••••••••••••••• 55 53 Arkansas •••••••••••••••••• 41 47 New York ••• # •••••• "." ••••• 2,293 2,440 California •••••••••••••••• 1,423 1,.547 North Carolina ...... 345 391 Colorado •••••••••••••••••• 165 180 North Dakota ••••••••••••• 22 26 CQIUlecticut ...... 390 476 Ohio ••••••••••••••••••••• 635 726 " IIelaware •.••••••••••.••••• 56 63 Oklahoma ••••••••••••••••• 77 96 D. C••••••••••••••••••••• 472 440 Oregon ••••••••••••••••••• '136 151 Fl~ida ••••••••••••••••••• 169 197 Pennsylvania .• ~ •••••...•. 682 1,023 Georgia ••••••••••••••••••• 143 181 Puerto·Rico ..•.•••••••. ~ ~ 13 11 GWIm •••••••••••••••••••••• 1 3 Rhode Island •••••••••• , •• 93 119 Hawaii. ••••••••••••••••••• 35 38 South Carolina ••••••••••• 98 107 Idaho ••••••••••••••••••••• 24 20 South· Dakota ••••••••••••• 26 34 Illinoi••••••••••••••••••• 820 956 Tennessee ••••••••• i ••• ;. 0' '163 186 Indians ••••••••••••••••••• 370 401 Texas •••••••••••••••••••• 427 472 lows •••••••••••••••••••••• 173 209 Utah ••••••••••••••••••••• 55 62 Kanaas •••••••••••••••••••• 146 154 VeI'lDOD.t •••••••••••••••••• 55 68 Kfln~ucl!y •••••••••••••••••• 136 151 Virgin Islands ••••••••••• 1 1 Louisiana ••••••••••••••••• 125 144 Virginia ••••••••••••••••• 502 571 1Iaine ••••••••••••••••••••• 71 87 WllBhington ••••••••••••••• 200 218 J.larY,land ...... 474 533 West Virginia.: ...... 72 82 1&a.aBachUBetta ••••••••••••• 859 963 Wi.consin •••••••••••••••• 362 418 IIichigan •••••••••••••••••• 563 656 Wyoming ...... , •• 8 8 lliImesota ••••••.••••.••••• 227' 261 J.Iie.i6.ippi. •••••••••••••• 34 45 Canada ••••••••••••••••••• 350 401 l.tiasouri ••••••••••••••••.. 290 302 Other Countries .....· ...... 409 445, lIontans ••••••••••••••••••• 34 35 15,435 17,232 Nebraska •••••••••••••.••••• 91' 104 Addres. unkncnm .....· ..... 35 607 Nevada ...... ·...... 16 19 15',470 17,839 .' -""-- OFFICERS' REPORTS IS J III. MEMBERSHIP BY REGIONS . 15 Dec • 15 Dec. . 1966 1%7 ~, ~!tf~~ .. ~~~:.~~.~~~~:.~~~~~:.~~~~~~~:~~~.~~.~~~~~:.~~: ...... 1,556 1,809 ... North Atlantic: New York, New Jersey, PelUlBylvania, Maryland, Delaware, r District of Columbia ...... 4,720 5,103 .... 1,447 ,) Sduth Atlantic: Virginia, North Carolina, Solfth Carolina, Georgia, Florida ...... 1,257 ,; Notrt.h~Centra:l: ~, Ohioj ,Indiana, ;ll.linois, W.chigan, Wisconsin ...... 2,750 3,157 SQ'titlr"Centra.1.:- Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee,- KentucKy, West Virginia...... 498 574 West Central.: J.tlnnesota,_ -Iowa, ,J.{isBouri, ArkHnBf!B', l£iuIsiap.a,' North Dakota" South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas ..... ~.... ' ... ~ .... ;...... ; ...... 1,645 1,849 Pacific Coast: M:mtana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexioo, Idaho, Nevada, utah, AriOOIlB., Washington, Oregon, California, Hawaii', Alaska ...... 2,235 2,432 Territories and Dependencies: Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam ...... """,, ...... 15 15 ~ .... "." ... " .. "." ...... "." ...... 350 401 other Countries .... 409 445 . , .Address Unknown ••••••••••••••••••• ...... 35 fJJ7 TotaL ••••••••••••••••••••••••• 15,470 17,839 IV. DEATHS REPORTED SINGE. 15 DECEl.lBRR 1%6 HonoraiX 1kl:tib~rs: Pieter Geyl, Utrecht, Netherlands ••••••• (31 December 1%6) ~r~ Rftter, Ereiburg, Ge~ ...... ( 1 Jul;{ 1967) ute 'I!embe'ro: , . . (12 January 1963) ~~. Y~~:~dr:..~anfu/~~:.:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: (29 August 1%7) Sidney,E. FayJ Cambridge, .Mass. • • ..Lena, G. 'Van ;Bibber, Elkridge, I.!:l ...... F1Jity-Yea:r.'~rs! (21 September 1966) ~;~~Jd!t:r:=~~~bt~~c~;i:·::::::::,:::::::::::::::::::·:::::,:::-::':::::::: '(26 November 1%6) Kent RobertS areenfield, Baltimore, I.!:l ...... ; ...... (25 July 1%7) ~d F. W. Schmidt, Annapolis, W •••••••••••••••••••••• lIa.be~ ~~ ~ea:kBj.1)all8B, Tex. ; •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• .Atimlia l6ombliri!:. ' F. Lee .Benns J Rensselaer, Ind. • ...... ~ ~ ...... ~ ...... ~ ... .. 11611ay 1%7) Brother 11. Alphonaus, Ne1r York, N. Y. • •••••• ~ •• ; • ; •• ; ...... , •••• ( ·2 June 1%7) Jl~'~-CarpeI!teI:, l.4on.ticello, Iowa •••• : •••• ~-r ...... ~.~ ••••••••• t' ...... ·•· •• ( January 1%7) (23 December ,1966) ~:'~~: :=~On~-'E:::.t~o:.:~~_:.:::::,:::~'::::'::::::::::::'::::::::::::::!:: (10 October ·1%7) Victor ll. GPoPer; Alexandria, Va ...... ( 3 November 1966) ( 9 November 1966) (23 JUne 1%7) (21 December 1966) ( 3 March 1%7) (16 April 1%7) (20 Ootober. 1967) .. ,;~~,~1~::::::::[,':li,::i',:::::::::'::'::::::,'::::i:: (29 March. 1%7) ( 8 September 1%7) . (29 December 1966) ~~f~:;:H:;:~:~;{;:,::.~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: (23 February 1%7) Bever:!Y UcAnear:; :Fulton.,~. • ...... (15 IIay . 1967) J~F,c.lIcCrysiaf, Sandusl ( 5 AUgtW't, 1%7) (30 June 1966) (28 1Iay" 1%7) ~1~~~~~:~:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::\:::::: (13 SepteJllbU 1%7) WUlfam R: Reynolds, 'Hicl J8lDeS J. Vul..fson, Washington; D.;O •• ""t';,.-•• ' ••• '... _ ...... io- ••••••• ; •• ~ .. ~ •• c ••••·':; •••-, , (lHlllrch 1967) Paul A.- W.. Wallace, Jenkintown, Ps ...... ( 8 liIlrch 1%7) Richard O. Wood, Randolph, N. H...... (25 December 1966) Stanley J. Zynie"sld, Lexington, Ky ...... ( 6 April 1%7) 334-554 0-69-3 " . " . e~ )', if >i" ,; .. t , . AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ~ ".. , 1/' <, ,1 $ I MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 13 May H)67 e, The meeting was called to order by the chairman, AHA President Hajo Hoiborn, Present were: Mr. Holborn; John K. Fairbank. Vice-President; Elmer Louis Kayser, Treasurer; Paul L. Ward, Executive Secretary; Henry R. Winkler, Man aging Editor of the American Historical Review; Council members Thomas C. Cochran, Philip D. Curtin, WauaceFerguson, andJohnL. Snell, Jr.; voting former presidents Frederic C.' Lane and Roy F. Nicbols; and Assistant Executive Secre tary Robert L. Zangrando. Council members Julian P. Boyd, Richard Hofstadter, Carl E. Scborske, and William B. Willcox were unable to attend. The minutes of the meeting of 27 December 1966 were approved, together with the supplementary action by post card ballot initiated 6 January 1966, appointing Mr. Fairbank to the vacancy on the Executive Committee and approving the reappointment of Percy Ebbott to the Board of TrUstees. e The Council secondly approved Executive Committee actions 1) expanding the American Historical Review from four to five issues, upon recommendation of the Board of Editors, and 2) revising the membership of the Committee to Collect the Quantitative bata of History to' reflect the Council's engagement of the com mittee's scope at the meeting of 27 December 1966. The next agenda item was appointment of adelegate to the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). Mr. Ward referred the Oouncil to the delegate's report for ~966 by Charles ~ellers. On ,Mr. Ward',s recommendation, the Council named Henry Cord Meyer to serve as the delegate to NCATE to serve from November 1967 to November 1969; " provided he consentS.' , e, ' , 'e ' ' 'The next agenda item was the nomination of an AHA representative to the NationalResearch Council. Mr. Ward explained that he and the other offj.cers had d~emed 'it in line with established policy to ask for formal affiliation with the Division of Behavioral Sciences of the National Research, Council, UPOfi b'eing invited ~odo so. This invitation was only one of a number of recent developments in line with, the argument of th.e e Hlghani ,1U',ticIe in the Review of October 1966. Upon Mr. Ward's recommendation, C. Vann Woodward ,was appOinted. if he will consent. ' ',' Mr. Ward then reported on the Consortium of Professional Associations for Study of Special Teacher lI!1provement Program~ (CONPAS$). AHA,delegate~ to CONPASS are Mr. Ward and John M. Thompson. Mr. Thompson's term expires thif; spring, but heelEIe willing to continue to serve and indeed is accepting election as chairman of CONPASS. The ACLS, the American Economic Association. and the, Am.eri'can' Political SCience AsSOciation have joinedCONPA$S recently, and it has reorganized in order to be better able to adviSe aIid~tfence'the Office of Education 'in connection with teacher improvement programs. The Council ap pointed Mr. Thompson as delegate to CONPASS through 30 June 1969. The CoUncil then turned to a series of oommittee matters. 16 I l_~_~_~-__)r-----:--. __ MINlITES OF COUNCIL MEETINGS,1967 17 '. Mr. Ward, as Secretary of .the joint Committee for the Defense of the Rights of Historhms Under the First Amendment, requested appropriation of $3,000, from the corresponding, AHA fund, to the treasurer of the joint Committee, The joint Gottumttee 'had voted to appropriate $1,000 to apply for a writ ofcertiorar,ifrom the Supreme ,Gou:ttto fiIilsh the Stevens v, Frick case, and.had.also voted to con tribute$4,OOO'towlird legal expenses incurred in connection with the Frick v. Stevens case still 'pending in the Carlisle, Pennsylvania, court. ,The Organization of American Historians had accordingly sent $2,000, and the Association $3,000, as an advance, to the joint Committee. ~. CochranaSkErl whethe,rit ';"oJJlclb\eapproP~+atefo_r .the council to ,authorize a s~cond. appeal. to AHA m,embers fo~ Amds ,IIi, !=asE! such f)lnds,sho1l!d ~ n~eded befgre Pte D~emb~ meeting. 'J."Pe,Coun~U a~e~ ~a,t if, f0I: ,example, the. JUdge in Penp1'lylvania, ;Here tq rJ.!le for Mi",. S~eye~ .ana WssFi-ick theil. app~ed, .the A~s()ct~ti()n shollJ.dl:!e realiY to act to enwhas#~ tile. consJ:i~tio!¥il issue on the appellate level. The Council accorcl1ilglyvoted to authorize the, Tr~asur~ to expend at his. clli;cretio~'all ,of the m.9I!~¥~ 11P-ftcFugd~?I" th~[)efense,Qf the Rig~ts of Histori¥s tang: to,~pthopize theE;?C~uny~ S~7,ta,r:y to ask for additional ,contri- butions from MIA meinbers if he deems it necessary." . . . " Ne~ ,tl]t;~Council; cOrlS,i!iereli Ii; tlu;~e:P#t -propos!i1 frorp, the Corhmittee on Ph~, P... Progr ayts, ,pi .H!J:Itory. 11le cqIIriIiittee asked the Council's judgment in principle, and also -comments to ,~mPbases, resPecting a draft statement of "~wn4ards ~o,r. Ph.!), Ri~grruDS .,fu fli§~~ty,". which it submitted with the uiider stancfu.1g ~~Juriher re'l'forJeing WEl!'l ne,ooed and that an introduction is' to be added, A draft panel ofconsultS.nts was appeDded to die statenient.·. .' Section' i of die corhm1ttee's' proposal was that the statement of standards, when completed, bepubUshM'in the(AHANewsletterand transmitted to the Council of. Graduate Schools, Office of Education, and the six regional accrediting asso ciations; for use in thelr evaluations of doctoral programs in history. ' . Secti0lllIOftheproposaIdireeted the Council's attention to the list of historians to be. invit~ to serve as' consultants to advise and ev~uate Ph.D. programs 'in history, and proposed that the list of those wllliilg-to serve be transrriittea to the Council of Graduate Schools, the Office ,of Education, the six regional accrediting as~oCiations, and, o~ request, to hlSto.ty dej!,artmE;!Ilts and deans Of graduate schools who desire advice. The coIrimItteeftirtlierproposed thattlie list be ac companied by the suggestion that any evaluation mvolve at least tWo cOhsUltants representing different' broad fields6:f' hiStory, ¢ld that the list be revised every ivio yearsbya standing Committee on Ph.D. programs inHistory., .' , Some Council Ineriiliers 'felt Section III presented more diffiCulty than the precediiig two sections. The'E!ouncil'decided first to vote on Sections I iUId II and then~odiscuss and vote <;mSecdori ill. On the bliSisofpreeeding detailed dis- cussion, 'Sections I ana II were approved.' , ' '.. . '. section III of' the proPosal was that the Council authorize theexlsting com mitteeor a new coIhmirtee to draw up a listof depar'tinentS now offering Ph;D. programs in history which meet the criteria and standards being araf~ed, such list lobe expB.hded from time to time by'regUlar reviewproeedures,and to be pubUshed in up;-to-.:.aateform in. esch'issue of the AHA Newsletter.' . 'Mr. Lane said there is no doubt that the Ailso.C:iation is moVing in the direction I of accreditation,but that it would beil very serious business to'startlinplicitly i black-listing institutions to which some of our Ul.~mbers belong.' Mr. gn~ reit I erated his hope that the Association would takei:his mod~st step, sCiymg that if'it J delayed any further it would abandon a responsibility to graduate students: He ) poiniedout that this is the secohd AHA committee to propose ihis coursebfac:tion; , Mr. Snell then moved the approval of Section III with the proViSion that theup-:-to date list of institutions. ,which meet acceptable standards will b~ publisned in the ~ AHA Newsletter beginniilg with the first isSue of 1969. The'motioh carried. ' ~ Mr. Ward then reported that John Bowditch is resigrifng from the Coinmittee ) on Ph.D. Programs ili History because he is off to France to do research. The I ~ 0' "'" ".1 · 18 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION J Council voted to give the Executive Secretary the authority to make all' appointment t15 replace John Bowditch as chairman of the committee.. . , : "'Mr. 'Snell pointed out that now the Council has in 'effect m~e this. a standing d6fIiIhltte'ei .it'might be adv1sabl~to enlarge'or alter i~ membership. The Council q voted to, iDformthe Committee on:Committees that the Committee on Ph.D. Pro 1 ' ,. ~ grains' in' HiBtOryhad been made a'standing cOmmittc:!e. and .to recommend'.that the: 'Committee' oil. Oommittees!' consider !the' qilestion of,its size; and composition " ana roSke' 'a . recommenaation,iricluding' a plan :for .l'otation of. members, to the , t " " Council at its meeting in December 1967. " ,~ <; 'rPe next agenda !t~ was, a request forwarded by the Committee on Interna tional'HistoricaI'Activities that the AHA send congratulationS to the Hungarian " Hfstor1cal:&fsocfdtion 'on itS''lOOth'anniversary.' Mt. Wardackhowledged that, like othersiith schoiarly groUps ihIrori Curtaiti countries; theHAA is run out of a go~etWhent instt'nite. it was.,~oved that Mr: HOllJorn be appointed'to draft an apPJ;'opr1(tE:!.cortgratula¥OrY message in Latin, Mr. 'Holborn indil:;atedwillirigness, and the motion carried., . ."" " . " ' ,: The' ri.ext'iteniwaS' aprelliniriaI:ydr~t propBshl from thec:omtilittee on Inter national Historical 'Activities bY wltich the Association would seek furids Under the International Education Act t6 establish' an Office 'of International HiStorical Activity•. This. office wouJ4' s~e', iI;dtiilly as.!!- c1eafing house' of information on iIiternational historical activities. The j;lroposalcalled for funds for a sinall staff, compilation of resource IDes, and occasioniil pUblication.',. ' It was' 'moved that the &8fi proposal !tom the COnlmittee on Interhational Historiciu Activities be received by; the Councllwith'lhterest. The motion carried. Mr. Ward reported at'~ 'p~int th~th~ ,hllfi not yet, 1;le~n able to liD.e up anyone to gather information and raise funds~or the prRPosednati0nal center for .his- torical research. ., " , ,. •-i' Mr. Holborri' reported that the East GeqI,l:an ar.chirfves are now gratifyingly open to United States historians, He suggested that.the invitadon. of last December ~t be renewed, invitingWUv1dual Eas't 'German histc,rlani; to attend the AHA 1967 amuu4 ~eeting. The cOIlfle~~s gf the Council ~as tq liefer this until the annual meetWg was .again heIp.lrtthe United States. . . Mr. Ward then reported on the progress of theJoint Committee on ,theSt~ of ,the N!!.tional Archives. The COmmittee Vias formed asprovki~ 1ri Mr. 'Soyd's resolution last Decemb~., With Mr, Boyd and Kent Roberts Gt:~enfie14 as the AHA members. It met first·on 15 ~arch. following an oppqr:tl\hil=Y ~O;t; ~, I?oyd and ,'< Mr. Ward and some others. to talk with the Bw;eau of ,the Btu;lget" which if! starting its own ~~y of the sta~,of the Archives. The commi~~ewas keeruyay.rare of the possibility that, the Bureau of the Budget~aymak~recglllIDendatiqns contrary to the committee's. A request was made to the Council on. Library ResoUrces for funds for the preparation of areportto sUm up as s,olidly as I?ossib,le the d~~a tions of the committee. A grAAt of $2§00 w~ rc:ceived for t:hl&purpo~e, and Ii. G. J ones, State Archivist of Nor$ Carolina, l;1as secui;ed. a three-week leave of absence to come to Waslljngton and dr$ ¢er~ort. Mi. Ward Pext reported !h.flt,Kepr~sen~!iv~F.Bf~ord Morse pf Massachu: s ens has introdu<.::ed a bill. in Oongr;ess, which is whCllly in acc9~d with the resolu tio,n proposed by: th~ Co~tt~e on Commemora.tionof .the ~~ican Revolution Bicentetm1al and"adopteq. b,y ,tl1~ .C9~cil. and fI1erpb~ship of th,e AHA in DeY«i!~ber. c€fJJing f9l' an;a~,tl:iol'izatioq of~2QO,OOQ for the first.. two years of operl!;tion of the national American Revolqtion Bicentennial Celebration. , . Mr. : W~d.,.tnfClrmed the Coiincil that, instead of awarding a prize this year, the CoIIllDittee on the .. Alber~ J. Bev~idge Award is preparing a proposal for a change jn ¢.e terms of the awarli will ,be laid before the new Committee op Prizes and A'V~,ds. ' . ' ", " Mr. Ward then reported on relations with the Organization of American His.torians. First he. announced that ,the Council is invited'by the Council at the " OAR to be its guests at a breakfast at the 1967 annual meeting. It ...... as ad.;led that .. I, " MINUTES OF COUNCIL MEETINGS, 1967 19 J the' DAB 'has set tip anew committee on the future of the OAH, which will consider what t:hi!lgs des&v:e,.to he done for the good of the profession. Mr., Ward then ~epor.:ted· on the Belmont Conference on Bibliographical Services ,to; Histox:)r.Hesaid the' conference had heena success partly because of the good Q qualities of the Belmont Estate, which the SmitbsonianInstitution is making avail '. I able to. any' group planning an overnight meeting. A' preliminary report from Aubrey , \.: Land~ staff director for the Joint Committee on Bibliographical Services to history, J reported the following recommendations from the conference: I 1 I. . Characteristics of the bibliogr:aphicals~ces: desirable for history: /·1I a) Coverage of, fields: the bibliography, aimed at, should embrace all of r history, but for practical reasons Arrierican (U.S.)history should be the first field covered-as an iriitial step'in rea.IiZing the total scheme. ~""" b) Coverage of the literature: ,the biJ:!liographical service should include books (monographs), journal artiCles, such simipublished matter as machine 'produced and mimeographed reports, relevant ephemera, but not manuscripts.: :.' I c) Arrangement: the compilers should insure that the classification of \ materials is compatible with the Library of CongresS thesaurus. II. 'Research'in Progress The Joint Committee J:"ecornnrends.that the AmericanHistorical Association expand. -Publication .of research in. progress, exploring . possibilities of cooperation withaWropriate agencies suCh as the D~artment ,of State, Smithsonian Institution, National Science Foundation, University Microfilms, and similar; ·organiZations. Ill. OrganizationalArrangements a) The;] oint Committee recommends $at the American Historical ASSOCia tion createacommitte~ to 'Study and act;upon the matter of bibliograph I ical services' and to implementrecommendations landIlabove,' consulting with I.the .organiZations constituting the J o~t Committee and seeking hroader·representati,on.m the profession (European•. Asian, etc~). ' l b) The Joint Cormhittee urges the 'ExecutiveSeoretary of th'e American HistoriCal Association:'to move the Council of the Association' to, appoint a professional staff to establish an information science system for \ history, i I The Council voted tcicreat~ a comIDi~eeto study and iI).iike):"~t)):rlIrl~dation~ on bibliographical seJ:"Vic,es .andtq Uppl~ent .recOrIinieru:Hltroris ,I Ill1d 1.1, and , ~ authorized the Exec.qtiye)?ecr.etary to groceed with the'~g()f tli~co~ttee .' in corisultation with the ExeCutive Committee. ' , . '-,' " \ The Council then, in 'response to the, ,second part of ~eco~~I!dation IiI,' a4-: tllOriZed the ExecuJive Seeret!p:"y torllise funds fora PiJ.q,t sbldy directeq lit arriving .at ,a .comprehensi.ve pl!ih for an .information science sy§t~iJi ~or ~tbry. (I The Council thep considered the ques'don of size of the Noqiipat1tig Coriiroiffee, which is schec:lu1~ to ~eet 20 MI!Y. '. '. '.: , . '. . j , < After . pre1in:iipary cOmmentS. on ,M;r. Potter's letter to"tpe Qow:lCil; ~t .was moved that the. NOrIDnating Cotnmittee be made a seven-member conliniitee with terms of t\1{0 year's, t:hi-e~ mfi!mpers to):le appointe \ \ ''-,,------.\> ,.< " .. ',e ," 20 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION .; Next Mr. Ward reported a letter from Louis Morton, the Program Chairman of the Toronto meeting, who wrote that he finds lilinself 1lI1der great; pressure from groups which meet jointly "with the Association to include in the annual meetings sessions planned not by the Program Committee but by the groups. Memb~s pointed out that there is already a policy adopted by the Councilleav.ing .. it to the Program Chairman whether to 'include any given session or not. Alter,.. .. ," ~/ native methods of dealfug With these pressures wer,e discussed. Some members I "" ' agreed with Mr. Morton that joint' sessions might best be ruled out altogether from here on, but others felt the Association would still wish to draw on many of the s BIlle groups and have their cooperation..Mr1 Ward preferred to talk the matter " over with the Program Chairman for .1968, who will soon be appointed, and bring a recommendation to the Council,for action in December.: It was ,the consensus ,of the group that the appropriate,time to make matters clear: to ,the chairmen of the groups would be immediately after the 1967 annual meeting.' " The COUD,cil moved on to the report of the Executive SecretaI:y. Mr. Ward first reported on the status 'of the copyrightlaw revision. Copies of histestiIilony before the Senate Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks and Copy rights had been distributed ,by mail, and Mr. Ward·added,tha:ta.tafuture addi tional hearing the Association understands that Senator McGovern will testify, if he can, to underline the points the AHA most needs to 'put aeross to the Subcom mittee. He 'mentioned that Walter Rundell' has suggested' that the Association at its December business meeting pass a resolution asking state archivists to permit documents to be photographed; for use elsewhere~, hiStorians, as provided by the new law. . He then reported on three projects being carried on under grants from the N ationa! Endowment for the Humanities. The projected volume on freedom under law to be drawn from colonial legal records;is'wellbegun under thedirecrorship of Neal Allen. The survey of bibliographical;services,to history, uup.er Mr. Land's clirection, was reported on earlier in the meeting. 'The newest project on collection of :comparative historical statistics will be'direc!ed by,Jacob Price of the Univer sity of Michigan. Mr. Zangrandoi who Msbeen doing the staff work for the Com mittee to Collect the Quantitative Data of History; reported that his recent talk with'Mr. 'Br.iCe had gone well', and :that Mr.. Price's design involves conferences in November "and December at Ann ,Arbor which are expected to formulate an actionproj ect to follow up the present study. . ' , , " Mr. Zangrando then reported on the status of two projects involVing appli cations to the Offic:~of Educ,ation. AgI:"~t 9f $~090 for a project op. ~ilm criteria was obglined. A Set'Vice Center pamphl~~ ,is p!an,t).ed, and a session will be held at the Toronto iriee~. }in $e.o/ fUmS. ,T!l~ pro~e~t is elJcitlng good co~eration on all sides and represents an iItitlal s~ep for lIllprdVing w;e of films and other au!lio-:v~~al aids., PI the teach1p.g of history. The propo,sal to establish a School History Proj6fts,' BClard, he sa1(l, seems' on the verge of ~ingrejected by the Office of Education. The Office has beep informed that further delay in reaching a Clecl::;lon would be bad fqr the hiStoJ;Ical profession and that a decision for or 'ag'ainSt will be appreciateC1 so that alternative steps can be initiated. , Mr. Ward then repgrted. tha~ he has accepted an invitation to testify at the hearings ~ JUPe. on the'pqssillle establisltmentof a national social science fOunda tion. Mr. Wllr,d. said that fie could. testify either as an individual or on behalf of the, 'AH.f\. 'TQ.e Council decidecl' ~o leave it to hiS . discretion, depending on the character of the hearings and of other testiIilonY. COUD,cil members dilled his attendon to its endorsement with qualifications Of the idea of a National Social Science Foundation, as adopted at the December meeting. In resPonse to a question about, the likelihood of the National Science Foundation's broadening its scope, ,< Mr. Ward said that Rowland Mitchell, of the SocW Science Research Council, a " meInberof the Committee on the Historian and theFederal Government, has undertaken to discuss with Howard Hines of the National Science Foundation the variety of applications currently rece1V,ed by the SsRC from historians. '- " J'f", ~ '0 " . , o • , ,< " . e, MINUTES OF COUNOIL MEETINGS, 1967 21 J Ne~ ~CJ# the~genda t Yi~ th~ qtiestloIiriaii'e abOtitto be Sent to ABA tI!:embers in the interest: of preinlrmg a better membetslllp .directory. A serIeS df letters .. ~d~~~ {O~()\yihgJf!.e m,cu.vU!U!il,! ~hani~;~ t3IeIi,rop:osed ~ect,ofy,'v:1U. ifldicate hIS grOfessionalcategory .!ilid hlstor1cal;>pec1hlty; Not only Will the ihformation ellpIted' by the qUestionnafre proVide IlbetterdlrecfOty, Mr: Ward ~ilid,but it Will t enable me Assodation to ruiJ. haste· statistical aniUysesof fts meriiliership Which e. "" ~e n~~# f9r i":eterenge,ih.cAii~~sjc;lDs, y.rim ageq~i.e!3. T~e C,QJ.mqil apprdVeQ, the c/, " ~!lft ,ques1;i9I]l:iair~.; M1:I .Wsr: d s!rid he hope9. ii would be ~pj>rOJ?r~a~e' to spe€ik On tlI~ resUlts cif it ~t the 196?'!Whqall!le~~~. . "e. LI.; : I.' ...... •. ~ 'J11e qO!!Dcil th!:!l1~ne4 to, o0l!!il!4~I!t1Pt!,{lf,tljT 1'i"eastffi~r';? r~9I"t. 'The f4"st J~en;t'.~!ief thatq~pcrotCP9S~~l,t~'Q'I!4Q!t!P!lS ~Q !he st# ~llichl!E!ecleq~G0\ll19il \ a'pproyal. Mri'o,\Ylirq :r~orted. tJ1at \lW. W~ Jl1~9,hl.!V:!f!,. \ypi:$iJi ;theA~s9cciaijon had '~Sta1l~ r,~,e;ntly .ew~4~ . We .ps'~ :wof\ CJ~ 0 tne,buSptess Off.tge tg ~eJ)oint 1 wn~re It .wasn~5,E\Sf1anr; to .ac:14 ~i 1tc~~Qt1~apF:;~eCJ:'fjt~Y,;to,~~ s~. ThE! second staff additic;m proposed wa~ f9r tlle..Amem.oan HlstorlcatRey,J.e"iif atl.d .Mr. Winkler explairied that he had illtrund a ~adiiatf~d~tt6,be add¢ on, ~l?Jtt-tfine basis ! as a reader. The Council approved thes~e ~o ~i:Utiofi,S to. ilie staff. Next the C9tlncilhellrd~ lWPicnied tlie staff salaries proposed for the fiscal ear b~ LS tember 1967, '. i , , , I y, w. )(~~s.lr· tli:th)~e~,e,D.te4 the,y;ti:~k trudget rep?rt. H.E! expl!lifi~ tha~ SOII1e adjusttb.etit ,hlid 1Je~m¥l~iq grde;- .. ~af fi!e b\ldge~ refl~tfiiore f),ceurahHytlie i adtual 'income andeXperiditufes Of the Association fOr each major AHA actiVitY. } Mr. Kays'er aIs'b eR'HiifuJd that next year the A:ssociation is going' to'dra"r' on the remahl,der: of th~ SEfryfce Cel!t~Fuftd tb help paY fgr i!s eXp~s'es. ';thish~s qot b(;!en done 'tl$ year sin~~ th~ mcrease, in, annual c;Iu,es ha,s. tld~ YCFt peep Offset by the increase from four to five issues annually of the Revlew~ ., " ' The neXt·l\gen~a iferp jlIld,er~ the tr~siJrer~.~rePotitWaB,!IoP~fulosR!it9 ptu:chase 6 II px:operty adJ. in1I1g '49~: A .~iree~ $,E. ~ p~ch:~~ 'Y"~tM addjL thfr4 !?iec~ of proper.ty tc), the. Assqc1ation~.s hoJAirtgslipd give us;.a Inore nearIY.f!lquaF&; plot of land Joca~ed on ,8. ;C:0trIer,~ylI(>'ldinK,~.\lC~ pt;qp~ ·t!le ·",f!,S?9!tti,~ri,is.bettet pro tefted a,~aiil~t. ef!offp to.IlS!l~J~·W'~E!·it0l~~f! ,!f~r9ll!ldllig; 'th¢4fiA, (lffices. The adjo~g hoUS~~s,~QlledfontWE!llPig,,,~ Mil. K!LY.~~ PFopos,ed tlHit tp.e l\H4 plan to rent the tlrnee ·fli16ts as ap'arfuientB. At Ii fater tUne it cou1d'lJe.deeld.ed wlie\hez, to e5cPaIicfiti.~ ~:~qo~fioii"~" O§b}~' §Jl~9'e;ift~(l'fhe .qe"" building; wlUch wol;1ldreqwre re,z9tlfug: Mi;.;l3.t:.o.~akeJ:it1i¢})qsifiCF~'~mllriiig~~ has. s~ggested 'that sin~e.s~cl:t~ehiaI ~~~' ~~gap ~cJ~~~pM~l~~?i,bp~atl When theAHA. through the Service Center for Teachers or a committee. finds itself obligated to identify and secure a speaker as part of a program or project undertaken jointly with another organization. if the desired speaker .. , , , , ~ " 22 AMERICAN lllSI'ORICALASSOCIATION J cannot routinely secure the travel expenses from bfs own ip.stitution or , otherwise. the AHA will, at the Executive Secretary s discretion, d~art . trO!IT its usual practice and itself. contribute to ()r me~thiS tr!ivel ex pensElf!. The same rule. will be .extended to cover, when nect;ssary.and on " the no1llipation of the ProgramCoJllIIlittee or the Executive Co~ittee, " I ;oneoutstanding speaker from abroad at the annual meeting. .' " Then Dr. Zangrando provided tlie Council with information on die reactions "". he has received in connection with the Council's decision laSt December to note in professional register listings the institutions currently on the AAUP censure list; FoiJrsuch inStitUtions were then bclriglisted. One asked to'drop out; a second protested; but in the case of the other two, letters came from department chair men thanldng the Association for providing them with leverage in their negotia tionswtth theh-. aclmiDistrations. Members of the Council commented that graduate studen¥! had remarked .to them on the helpfulness of such a listing. Then, Upon motion, thenieeting adjourried at 3:30 p.m. >'. Paul L. Ward, Executive Secretary ., :'H \. ':' " ' <, MINUTES OF COUNCIL MEETINGS, 1967 J ~ '. / , '< " J' MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THE AMERICAN 'HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ,27 December 1967 The meeting was talled to ord~ by the chairman, AHA ,President Hajo Holborn. Present were:Mi'. HaThorn; John K. Faiibank. Vice-President, Elmer Louis Kayser, Treasurer; Paul L. Ward, Executive Secretary; Henry R. Winkler, Man aging Editor of th~ American Historical ReView; electedCpiuicil members Thomas C. Cochran, philip D. Ctirtiil, Wallace Fergusi:in. Carl E. Schorske. John L. Snell. Jr., .aDd William B. Willcox; voting former presidents Julian p. Boyd, Fr¢~ic ,C. LlU:).e, and Roy F. Nichols;, and Assistant Executive Secretary Robert L. Zan~andC!.Cc:)Uncil meml>i:!rRiChard IIofstadtet wa~ unable to attend. I, 1Vfr~ Ferguson read a letter' from former president Samuel Flagg Bemis in which: Mr. Bemis expressed regret that he could not attend the Toronto meeting he had nelpoo i:9 Jlntiat~. ',' , ", I I, I" ' 'O~m,otlon. tlie il:$ute,s of th~ Council meeting of 13 May 1967 were approved as published in the OctOber Review. ' , The CRuncil then, on motion, formally approved actions taken by the Executive Commiqe~since the Council I)leeting of 1,3 ~ay 1967. as f911ows: , -, .'" ,:' AppoiritmentCJfni~et:~:' ,~o 'til~ ~eW, "stanqihg' a:orhinit<~ I 9Il 'Jilibliographical 1 Serv!ces I to 'I HfS!tory esiaJ?lislled, by, ~e ,Council at its. m.~eting of 13 May: l 4tWrey C. Land, Lee BenSon; H,6wCIi;d ,F~ Clfuy• Pt',C;>Ii J . Fiale, R. Stuart Hoyt, \ and .oscar Win,thet. : " ""'" I , ,J Instruction to tli~, rfr¢as~e'rjfo)4:a~,qn'th~s~g'a¢coun~ for the Protection .. of the Rigpts ~~tor~ tQ r~~e"t1i¢.~soCiatl9~'S geileral funds in the amount of $5,9~6,:Zo to, coVer payment (lflegal f~es to, th~ 'Assoc:iatlon' s attorney. l , , c J i ,'r. '. ~. 'T,' ,,', ", -;' ~ 1 Establishrilent of an ad hoc dormru:tiee on Amehcan-East Aslan Relations with ) iIlitial tDembership consisting of John Blum; J6bn~ K,' FairbBnk;Nortnan A. I Gra~bner. RicJ;iardLeOpold;'afid Ernest May. ", > '.' .'. Selection of Boston; Massac;:hilsettsas the Association~s anIlIuil. meeting site 1 I ,. ,. , ' j for 1970. ' . \ I t Authoriza~on ofexp~diture of $36,000 for the purchase of property at is...; 4th ) Street, S.E., WashiIigton, D.C., to be held in theriame Of im\AfIA subsIdiary corporation. ' , . ' , .. ' . Authorization ofexpendirureof $1,000 to round out tota16rigmally budgeted for the International Textbook project apobsored' byth~· AHA; tile National COwlcil for the SpdBl Sfu~e~, . 8nd Phi Delta Kappa. \I / ) ) , ' ~ ( 23 I 1 '-- ,I., cl' I ~ _ j . '. I •• ::" 24 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION .I The next item on the agenda was the report of the Managing Editor. Mr. Winkler presented his report and submitted to the Council his nominations for appoint ments to the Board of Editors: Tom B. Jones, University of Minnesota, whose field is ancient history, and Bryce Lyon, Brown University, a medievalist. The motion carried. Mr. Holbern extended to Mr. Winkler the Council's gratitude ~ '" for his work as Managing Editor, its reqret at losing him, and its best wishes. " " .. The Council then heard the report of the Assistant Executive Secretary• ", Mr. Zangrando first introdUCed the report of the Committee on the Professional Register,Iioting .m!!.t regisJralits and j!>bsposted C9ptinlilHo increa.s,e.lil response to a question, 'he said the Professional Register does n6~ ge~,,¥1uch busih,ess from community colleges and junfor coITegefj; Mr. W~er pointed out that community colleges recruit staff from high schools, so that by pUblicizing the Professional Register at Service Center conferences the Association could move into helping community colleges find staff members. Mr. Zangrando said the Professional Register has instituted a policy of annual billing. lJe 'saidth¢Organization of Amerfcan Historians now uses the United States Employm~~Service ratllerthan the Associationl s Professional Register as in the past tWo yeliI"s. USES is free and is used by some other professional societies" but, bY s9ciE;ties whose emp~oymep.t operations are simpler than the Pro~essi6n~ Register is now. Mr,' Snell,askE'!(j whether it might not be worthwhile to use the USES. Mr. Zaiigrando said dult would mean scrappmg the Professional Register as it presently· operates, J:iutthat the iclea had advantages c and would save money. He said he pll'iriil t6 .lOOk c at the operatiOn USES' carries ?n 'for the OAH at it annual IIleeting next April. ' ' He then introduced' the report of the delegate to the Editoria]. B~/lrd of Social Education, publis~E;d b.¥ the Nati~nal c C?up::1,lfor t:q~ 9 Social Education." " " 'C' ",c.' " ',. ' The next item,¥!-.Mr. :z~grand!?;'s tm,orr)Y!l-~ili,e.rep?J=t of the Committ~e ?n Teaching. He mentioned The Interhiitiohal Texiliook Project' as an example Of coll,a1,>pql~onl;l,e,twe,~nllis,t9ry ,anq otb,er sqqaJ !>p~en7~s~,.:r}lE!result of the project will qe. f4. Po9~ pi f~gs. pn t:hittE!&\' tO~~a1 arE!as IX, U.S~ history, excerpted froll), hi,st6ry te~6<;I!cs Qf otlier ~owil:!1~s. a~ihe ~yhl~t of bur eleventh grade level. Members of theCoWicil will receWe copies 'Of the hOole,when it 1s published in early 1969. Mr. Zangrando further noted that the pamphlet, Preparation of S,~co~ SchQOI Te~chersot ,History•. h;!ls, 1;le~ r~sed, aIlqthat next year the ., g:';~C~i '" p~c~~C~d(~J?AAtl'l!1eJ~ vqu. pr9P'!ilily kE; raised fro,In_.fi!tY cents to seV,~tY-fi've,' ,i:~~. Mtc.~; .tl1~ proI! L_____ ----..-~..,.___ '. }. .~ MINUTES OF'COt:JNCIL MEETINGS, 1967 25 .; , Mr. Zahgranqo then,introduced thereportofthedelegate to the Central Atlantic RegiofullEdubatioh:Lab6ratory. " ;, , i , .. 'fiDagy, i!~i'eportea 'that> the Committee to Collect the Quantitative Data of I:I~tory woulil,lilCe:'its hame changed to "Committee on Quantification in History," a, sfiicethe ccihirirlttee'~, foCus ·is not really on collecting da,ta. Several Council 'J ' r members objected to tlie implications of the word" quantifiCation," flrul Mr~ Cochran ,. <;t moved the committee's name be changed to "Committee' on ,Quantitative Data iQ " .,; History." The motion was seconded and carried. ',,', ' Mr. Snell stressed theimportailcetomeprotessionof improvement of teaching ~ ill juniOr colleges~ smce, junior colleges .f~ed:directlyinto ~versities. He sug,::: 1 gested the C6tnIriittee on'University and Oollege Teaching cooperate with other " historical associations~forinstapce, the Pacific Coast Branch and,the Organi ;\) zation of American HistoIiiahs.:...lli planhing sessions at their meetings, and ,a ( program Of regional coilfeJ7encesj dir~ted to junicir ,college teachers;, . , Tbe' Ooui1cil then turnedto'the'othericoonimittee reports, first,of which'was ! the reportoftlie Co~ttee onOommi:gees,lt'chose to consider' recommendations s eriEitiIIi and take action on, the entire report at the eild i ,.'; 1 I " \ .....' ------~ ..,.. 4 " ·, , 26 AMERICAN HIST()lUCAi..ASSOCIAT.!Q-N, J operationS ~ nine members serving two-year terms; Mr•. Ver Steeg stressed that the Nomi natingCommittee,still. believes that continuity of experience. of members on the : Nominating' Committee' is invaluable, and that continuity would. not be sufficiently 1Iisured by'tlie Council'scounter-pioposal. Mr.Snellquestionedwhether continuity · provided by three.;.year terms ·might not increase, the . risk of perpetuation of .. · cliques; He felt that a larger membership With more rapid turnover would involve I ." '''f more people in thenominatirig process and hence increase the democratic char f' J' acter Of. nominatiOns~Mr. VerSteeg pointed'out that onejob of the NOminating .. Committee is to canvass memberscfor suggestions of names, but that rarely does one.. person:get as many. as five separate nominations bytbis means•. He said the •N ommating Committee conceives: of •its duties as statesmanlike,rather, than directly representative of geographic areas officlds of history. Without resolving 'the above question, "the Council turned to consideration of one immediate problem facing the NOminating. Committee:· one of the races in " the election whose results are to be'announced at the ,Business Meeting 29 DeCem berhas 'been very close, and 'the decision as to who wins hinges 'on interpretation of' the language:on the printed ballot, 'whiclI is anibiguouS~ After discussion, the Council asked Mr. VerSteeg tocbeck:with his office to find, out the total nuinber of voteS, received for·.eachcanCtidate to~ date;·and to report 'back when he knew. The"Council af¢eed'to lei: ,thaofinal figure'be'the deciding oneexcejJt in the event ofa.tie " '" .. , Next. '~~ Clouncll turned'to 'a 'resolutiotrproposed by the Oommittee on the :Historian· and the:. Federal Governrrient on' the subject of William .R. Tay'lor and the White House Advisory Panel on Educational Research and Development. Mr. :Louis MortoIlj chairman of the committee,. read excerpts from.Mr.' Taylor's statement to'the press as quoted' in a letter;fromthe American ,Civil Liberties Union to Donald F. Hornig, the President's scientific adviser.-Members of the Council felt there was vagueness and contradiction in the information it had before ) it, but that the possibilitY existed that a serious issue was raised. After discus ,~ I sion, the Council referred the matter back to the Committee on the Historian and the Federal Government and asked the committee to report back to the Council after investigation, with recommendations-for Council action. f The next item of business was the .report Of the Committee on Prizes and , Awards. The Council agreed that· the report, and indeed the:whole area of Asso . ciation prizes and honorsj;ought to have full consideration, and itwas.moved and \ seconded that considerationOi the,report be deferred until the spring Council I meeting. The motion carried;,;' ' '\ The Committee on the Harmsworth Professorship had directed the Council's \ attention to a new procedure which it wished to institute whereby the initiative for , selecting the Harmswortli Professors.(holders of"visiting'Professorships in recent American hiStory at Oxford) w.ould liewiththe:AHA conimittee, rather than with with the Board of Electors at Oxford; Mr', Ward mentioned that he 'Will' be traveling ) to England next' summer and woUld· be happy to get in touch with ()xford people involved, to find out how they would receive such a suggestion•.. The CoUllcil ap proved this plan. and referred the matter to the incoming ExecutiVE:! Committee. Mr. Ward then introdilced the report of the Joint CbmmittE!e for the Defense f of the Rights of Historians under the First Amendment. The CoIDIDj,tteesuggested, .'" sihce'further casesJike the Ftfck-Stevens case are not expeatedto pe common, ~ that it ,be diScharged and replaced by a small watchdog committee or three mem bers from the AHA and three from theOAH.· that the balahce lIi~~. hands of the J oint Committee's· treasurer' be returned to the two associations.m the ratio of their contributions. and that the new committee hot oruy consider any,threatS and marginal challenges as they arise, but alSo work out witlj6ut delay. a full'''plan , of action" for thehext major challenge whenever it should appear. 'The Council accepted this suggestion and appointectas AHA membersm lliec'OIrrinittee the ~ ~'I president. the ExeCutive Secretary, and Mr. BoYd, '. .;, .' ," The next item on the agenda was the report of the Jo1niOomrriitteeontlie j National Archives, introduced by Mr. Boyd, who Qutlfued the bistoryof the com- (, ~. ',' , 28 AMERICAN HISTORICAL.ASSOCIATlON '" mittee juld submitted its,full report.:(a pook-Iength manuscript prepared by H. G. . 'J oneS,l ArChivist of North 9arolina). He mentioned that since. the ,present Archivist . 'of the United States may retire soon, discussion' of the report may be. necessary ih order to throw light on important 'cons~erationsfor choosinghlssuccessor. d. , He 'said the report contained nothing notably controversial except the ,challenge it ; ~. r offers to,the .current concept that, aU presidential ,papers are priVate>pr!lPerty: of ,~ the president. He said it is important thaNhe Archivist be'responsible for presi ./ . ,dential libraries, and that they should be federally subsidized, Mr.!Schorske suggested that in further discussions ,of the status of the:Archives, , librarians' organizations be included as consulting groups. Mr. Boyd welcomed,the suggElstion. Mr; Ver,Steeg .of the Nominating Committee returned to report that after all ballots received were, counted, one candidate had in, fact receiv,ed one more vote than the 'other,' and according to the procedure previously establlshed, ,the former candidate was the winner, )', It., , Mr~ ;Ward. then'mentioned that it is, the,Nominating Committe~'s practice not 'r to inform,the:momineefor the vice".pnesidency that he has ,been nominated until he sees his name on the, printed ballot. The,€buncilagreed that this.practice could lead That Article VI, Section ,I, of the,American Historical Association Con stitution be ,amended.to'read: "Section I, There. shall be.a Nominating Cilommittee to consist:of seven mem bers. each of ,whom shall serve a term of three years. In successive years, the new. members shalb be elected as follows: three the first year, two the second year, and two the third year: this alternation shall.continue except in the case of electionS to cotnpleteunexpired terms. If vacancies on the Nomi II nating Committee occur between the time of the Annual Elections, the Nomi nating Committee shall fill them by direct ad interim appointments,", The next item of business was the Treasurer's report. Mr. Kayser IlOted that the increase in the value of headquarters and, equipment reflects the purchase by the Association of two lots adjoihing the present headquarters-building, giving the Association a plot of land nea~yrectangular, and protecting it against future contingencies and needs, He explained that the Service Center was set up under a foundation grant, and that the balance remaining from the grant has now been used up, Rather than carry a continuing debit balance in the special grant account, he asked the Council to authorize closing out the special account and subsidizing, the Service Center hereafter as part, of the general fund, into which. w<;lUld go the proceeds from the s ale of pamphlets and other Service~Center income. The motion carried, ,N ext Mr, Kayser explained that the Association has long had the practice, in handling proceeds from invested funds, to allocate ,to these special funds interest at the rate, of 3 1/2 per cent across the board, while the general fund absorbs any income over that, He said the invested funds of the Association now earn more than 3 1/2 p~ cent interest, s,o that the special funds are suffering at the expense of the general fund. On motion, the Council authorized the Treasurer and " auditors to make an all~ation of income which is more realistic and bears a closer relationship .to what invested funds actually earn, by taking an average for \~ ,1, " .' . ' . MINUTES OF COUNCIL MEETING; 1967 29 .I the year of the percent of, ~t~est ,earned by all invest~ flIDds and using that perc;entageas the rate of mterestior all accoUnts; special and general. , Mr .~ayset , explaiJ;led ,tlie 1nerease ·mauditing. and legal ,eXpense OVET the amqiuit bUdgeted ·as ,/icC(nIhtedfc:ir by a new aUdit system instituted ,last year, and IJ by legal exPenses for the Frick case, the Sugar v. Fine case, the sUit against the . . former AIrier-iean HiStorical SocietY, and in connectionWtth th~ cOpyright legisla- , " ,< tion. The COlIDcil then voted to approve theWi:e!ispr~!s'report. .' .. ."x Mr.· Wardintb6duced ;the dI-aft ,budget,' wl!1:ch; afterdisctigliort'was approved . ,t The, Report of ,the E~ecutive Secretary was tl!~pt~l3eIited bY:Mi:".,War~, who added thatm. the next few ,mbnths,. his major,ooncerns ,will be: 1;) If the National Science Foundatiop provides funding fwB:yotlhg On biblio I ~ Ws~oriant6',sPeCialize graphlC'al'Ueeds of . the pn6fessioir;'th~ mlii1 wtllljav¢ to. Ji~ fOund as quickly as possil:lle and launGlied"onhlsduttes~:2) TJ?e l}liiE!ri¢~,.EastAsiaii RtHations porn,... inittee's proposal, which has been laid.before the Ford FOlIDdation, willreqilire !;1iinllar' effortS; MN ward,ilbp~.' ~F~e~o¥J{i pfth~,.GoririIiitree onPh~p; pro g,rams,rn 'Hisidfy,aS aJifit!>f.~eq]jy th~ C::9@,~ll'~~t~sl;ll7iIig, wo~Cf tecpiire, fullest atterttioti,; Withori6;de1ay) \Mr. ,Ward':saidhe,fofifid'atl;r7aotivetbe i " ., .. ~ t , ~ '. " 30 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION .I Service Center pamphlet series as well as the Review. (In the event of his accept ance, his name will be entered here for the record.) The COlIDcil referred the question as to how future candidates for the editorship are selected, to the Execu- 'tive Committee, for consideration' with the other overall problems of the Asso ,j ~ ciation. i' The COlIDcil approved the appointment of Lawrence W., Towner as Program ,j' Chairman for the 1968 Annual Meeting. , "". The COlIDcil appointed Messrs. Cochran and Willcox as members of the Execu tive Committee for the coming year. The Council appointed Mr.'W. A. W. Stewart to serve another. five-year term on the Board of Trustees of the Association. Under further old business, the question of "future ~ual me~ting sites was postponed pending discussion at the spring ,GolIDcil meeting about the ,annual meeting. Mr-.Ward annolIDced that the Pennsylyan,i,a J\Ventle Commission, which has plans for" a WoodrOW Wilson' Memorial, 'that cqrresp9nd in, large part with the Association's proposal fora historical Center for'Scl!91ars, will pa,ve information about these plans for the COlIDcil at its next meeting. Under new business, the COlIDcil voted, to appJ;ove the proposed increase of dues to the American COlIDcil of Learned Societies'to the amolIDt of $1500, begin ning with 1968, ,and to ,instruct its delegate to support ):benew ,schedule of dues when the ACLS next meets. Action arising out of communication with the State HistoriCal Society of Wis consirf waS tabled, 'with general agreement that the CoUncil at its earliest oppor tunity will consider the general problem of gross breac~es of professional ethics and of the procedures by which the professiohcan best guard its interests in the event of any such, breach. , . " .','.. ' Its busmesstompleted, the CoUncil, oli motion:; ildjoUrned. , , Paul L. Ward, Executive Secretary " ~; " I! ' f ; I " '~------'~r------~I \. · \ MIf'lUTES OF BUSINESS MEETING, 1967 .' : ", l 'I ~k .# MINUTES OF BUSINESS MEETING OF THE ,I '1 AMEIUCAN'lIIST,ORlCAt,'~SbCIATION I 29, December 19.67 '1 { ~ The Business Meeting of the Association convened on 29 D~ember 1967 at 4:30 p,m, ih the Ontario Rodm of the Royal York Hotel, Approximately one hundred members attendedjand President HajoHolborn presided. 11, The first itein Of business-was the report of the Executive Secretary, Mr, Ward f presented his report, which was available'in mimeographed fonn, and invited I, questions or cOmments,' , c \ Mr, W; Stull Holt questioned the, statement that the Pennsylvania 4venue Com I' mIssion's j:HanS'for a WoOdrow Wilson Memorial are,l'taking shape substantially along' the' liries Of the proposal set out in Julian Boyd's presidential address of 1965, although the focus will be less upon historians than upon the full range of diSCiplines exemplified in Woodrow Wilson's career," Mr, Holt said it was mis leading to suggest that the Wilson Memorial" which< would simply.include a hostel, would be equivalent to the full-fledged research center for historians proposed in Mr, Boyd's address, Mr. Ward responded that the staff of, the Pennsylvania Avenue Commissfon has indicated that it would make available more detailed information about its plans before the next Council meeting, since it could not do so earlier, He explainea that its plans currently calHor two buildings, one of which is simply a hostel, and the other a center for scholars designed for the use of fellowship recipients, The plans call for fellowships to be granted for two-YElar terms to about forty scholars at one time, On motion, the repair of the Executive Secretary was accepted. The neXt-iteni of bUsinessrwas the;reportof'the Managing Editor, Mr, Henry R, Winkler, who had announced his plans to relinquish the editorship in the summer " of 1968, Mr, Winkler read his report, Mr, Holborn expressed the deep thanks of the Association to Mr. Winkler for his work as editor, saying Mr, Winkler had brought a fresh breeze into the historical enterprise, On motion, the Managing Editor's report was accepted. Mr, Kayser then presented the Treasurer's report, He said he wisned to anticipate two questions I the first of which was: How muCh is the Association worth? The answer to this 'questionwaB to be fotiIid by totaling the value of the headquarters and equipment, the value of special' funds, and the value of the general fund, Mr, Kayser pointed out that the'Assaciation is still worth more than one million dollars; the reason it was not worth more this year than last year was the number Of disbUrsements made in 1967, The second question was: Is the Association making money? Mr, Kayser said that if the figure representing gain on sale of investfuents~which goes back into the generalfund~iS deducted for the total assets, the Iiliswer is no, For the Association not to mak~ money is " a triumph, Mr. Kaysersilid,sihce it is a non-profit organization and last year , came very close to breaking even, In moving the acceptance of the report,'a mem ber congratulated the· Treasurer on coming up with a deficit ,balance, however slight, The Treasurer's report was accepted, , ' 31 1 334-554 0-69-4 t __ ,...-----,----., _ ,> " ~-"" . ~ , 40-; . ' ,., 32 AMERICAN lllSTORICAL ASSOCIATION The neXt it~ of, business was the report of the decisions of the Council at its meeting 2.7 D,ecelnber. The minutes were availab1.e in mimeographed draft form, and Mr. Ward ihvitedcquestions or comments. One member commended the Council ~ (irielec~ Herbert Butterfield to honorary membership, and praised the initia t tives expreSEl¢ by tliis year's Committee on the Harrtsworth Professorship. He further commended the Program Committee for recognizing the anriual meeting's ~ ""', contribut!o\1 to the progr~ss of the l;l}storical piof~ession. , r In ~espopse io aI)-other' tiu,e~tion,. Mr.. W;ard ou~ed the Associ~!ionj s action to date regarc1.h;lg est~U:slrlheIit of a nati()nal ~qcial science fouhdation, noting .' that the Committee on National Aid to triStoric!i1Research and the CoUncil had considered the matterj and that he himself pad .t.estified insuppott·of such a foundation before the Subcommittee on GovertuneIit Research of the Senate Com mittee on GOvernment Qperations in June 1967. . 'flle next. ;4Uesnon was raised by MI) Alden Todg. who~~e4 whetJier it was i. arrappropriateti!he .tollsk.tile E*ecutive Secr.~tary. if he kIlew o! any tr.iplite bejng I planned for Da;vid Ghairtbers Meru:;ns on hiS ne1:ii7,ement as !Ghief of the Manuscript 'DiVision .of $e J:j.bt;~ .9£' Congres~'M1:: WIjJ:~ +,~J,ie«( that l1e knew bt no plan~, bllt inVited l'k' TOdq;t0rSuggest an appropriat~ ulption: 'c. . . . . In reSpo~e)oaquesti(lIl;a:h4?uttl1epossJbility:o'f collec::tipg ;:tnd ptaking avaUable the paPerS gtyen,at,-th~anIll.ial IDeettng S~flsii;>qSi Mx-. Warp' expl,aigtjd that there is a staridiIig off~' On, thepatt of "tlie.. AHA pffice to·prmtllP in fuiVance anY pap~ subriUfted.Jtr tiihe. i~O, .One Ms' y.'et taken Sdv!intilge of this ·offer, Whicl1 suggests ethat;:~uth!:>i-s ~,emp,t iii favor otthe idea~ r,' '.... . i' . . f . " . < .Mf" H()1l? ~ , , :~ f' . < ~ ~;' }~;'-" >, ';.., _,' That the th~s of the, ASsoc!ation be conyeyecl to the t-~~ Arrange~e1lts Chairnian!, :Pr9fessol' Q. B. Gon~Ch,er" iii1dtoth~m.enWers of :!;he Lb9al AI:r:!Ulge ments 09furrrlttee arid. their adniirable staff 6f!!,ide~, f()r~meira\=lsi~taJ;lse, as well as to .the;CliI!~ail Historical Ass6c;lation rin geneJ:'al, for,its hospi6illty. As' the next iterh. of, b\islipess,Mr. Clar~nc;:e L Ver. Steeg was recogfi.ized. B,S , chairman' of the:Nomlnati.ng GOmmitt,ee. , . ;. 'Mr, Ver .Ste~. mory,ecfthe. adopJ:l9n of ,j:ilefoll()wmg slate to serv~ ?-Sr,¢4C~S ;of the As.!,!oqati9t.tfot, 1968:. JorPresWept\P,rof!i!ssorJ oJ:UL!.<.,F'!iirP!ipkQ{ H!¢vard ,.UniVersity,i'fopYice-Prestdeiln"PrO~es&9r c:~ Vann Woodward of'(al:e lJo,iy,er§!ty; for· ;Treas~er.ProfessorElrner. L,ouis KaysE!,r "of G~Qrge V{~:;;hingtqn U~y~sity. Th~ motionw,as duly seconded find MeS~El. F~hanIs:, Kayser,. and WoQflWa!"d ;'Vier.e elected.. . , . . Mrj Ver Steeg then rose ,to rm>0rt to thelmembers the.r~sults of the'mail ballot for three vacancies on the Council of the Association and for two vacancies " on the Nominating Committee, which were as follows: Eiected to the Council were Professors David M. Potter of Stanford University, Lynn White, jr. of University of California at Los Angeles, and Caroline Robbins of Bryn Mawr College. Pro fessor Robbins was elected to serve for one year to fill out the unexpired term " I·,'.' ~ 'f ~ ' ... t: , t" '. MINUTES OF BUSINESS MEETING, 1967 33 ..;I of president-elect John K. Fairbank; Professors Potter and White were elected to full four-year terms as called for by the Constittltion of the Association, Elected , to the Nominating Committee for two-year terms as provided by the Constittltion were Professors Charles F. Delzell of Vanderbilt University and Frederick B. Tolles of Swarthmore College. Mr. Ver Steeg moved that the above candidates be # approved for the offices designated, and for their respective terms of office. The I motion was duly seconded and adopted. " • ti" " # Under new business, on motion by Mr. Todd, it was resolved that the officers , f of the Association consider making a tribute to David Chambers Mearns. There being no further business to come before the meeting. it was on motion, f. adjourned. f Paul L. Ward, Executive Secretary !i I) t " \ I ,: i,~ l' i:.i I ") l . '. I I ~ . , . . ." ~ '!,. ,. r , !, ., f' ' ' 1967 Annual Meeting , . " [ ;. -, ). .~- 0( , ".~) - ~. " ~AL MEETING, 1967 j .; f $1 ! 'It jl ~ ' . It, 't ill r ' , • <'-. }~J I i' I, t '" , REPORT OF THE PROGRAM CHAIRMAN FOR 1967 Only twice since Jts organization in 1884 has the American Historical Asso ciation met outside the United States, both times in Toronto. The first of these meetings was in 1932; the second was the recently concluded Eighty-secOnd Annual Meeting held at the Royal York and King Edward Hotels, Deceniber 28..;30, 1967. Reporting the 1932 meeting in the American Historical Review, "H. E. B." wrote that to go to Toronto "was not to visit a foreign country;" for the Association I "numbered among its members scores of Canadians," and several noted Canadian scholars had served on its Council! In 1967 Toronto was even lel'is loa foreign I country" for the members of the Association than it had been thirty-five years before. The number of Canadian menibers, many of them trained in the United States, had increased from "scores" to 390, and many Americans were teaching and studying in Canadian universities and colleges. t The selection of Toronto as the site for the 1967 meeting marked the obser , vance of the one hundredth anniversary of Canadian Confederation, and the occa sion provided an opportunity for joint meetings with the Canadian Historical I Association as well as the other groups that customarily meet with the AHA. Although attendance did not nearly match the mammoth meeting in New York City in 1966 (which set a record), it was about one thousand higher ·than the San Francisco meeting the year before and strained the convention faCilities of Toronto. (See Table I.) But the complicated arrangements made by James B, Conacher and his Local Arrangements Committee to provide space for housing the members of the AsSOCiation and scheduling the numerous activities for the t three-day meeting proved more than equal to the demands, and there '?Iere only one or two minor problems. Despite storms along the eastern seaboard that, t with an outbreak of the flu, prevented m'any from attending the meeting, the weather in Toronto was generally fair. But the low temperatures led many to " i wonder whether the Association could not observe some ,sUitable occasion south I of the border in one of its future meetings. .i The Program Committee was larger and more widely scattered geographically than usual in order to ensure Canadian partiCipation in planniIlg the meeting and representation of as many major fields as possible. ChairmaIi of the Committee was Louis Morton; menibers were Selig Adler, JacksonBailey. Robert F. Byrnes, Donald Kagan, EriC E. Lampard, K. A. MacKirdy, Richard M. Morse, Fritz \IJ Ringer, John C. Rule, William, R..,T~ylor, Lawrenct;! W. To~er, B. Wilkinson. and Perez Zagorin. A better-qualified or harder working group Of scholars would have been difficult toassenible. ~ach ~,ad~ a major contt;ibution to the program, not only in his own field but in, other areas as well. P~haps the most pleasant ~ part of my assignment was J#,yassociadori with these men, and with the Local Arrangements Chairman. ProfesSor, Conacher. ' The committee met four tinies, at dJ#erent locatl,ons, to suit the convenience of the menibership, first in New York duripg the 1966 meeting, in Washington at the AHA, inC,hicagoduringthemeetiJ;1gof'the O:t;'ganizationof American Historians, and finally in Toronto where it could inspect the meeting rooms. The presence of Mr. ,Conacher at these meefihgs proved rilQst helpful in planning the sessions and 37 b 'tLLJ _____ .' ,.-, - ,11· " .. , .. 38 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ." I Table I ANALYSIS OF IAEETINGS, 1965-67, 1931-32 (This analysis is largely for purposes of comparison, and the figures are approximate.) 1965 1967 1931 1966 (San 1932 " (Toronto) (New York) (Toronto) (Minne- r Francisco) apolia) " '. 1. Number of Sessions •••• 83 7? 73 28 32 l Presidential Address 1 1 1 '" Ltmcheon Sessions ••• lD 4 5 Dinner Sessions ••••• 1 2 2 Evening Plenary ••••• I Regular Sessions •••• 70 21 24 TotBl •••• _•••••• 83 28 32 , II~ GroUps ~BtiDg 'Jointly 30 29 26 7 7 N.-er, of Joint Sessions ••• ; ••••••• 35 ' 33 9 10 III. .Breakdown by~Fie1.de General and Profes- . sianal •••.. '.: •• :o. ••• lD 6 8 9 U.S'. and Canada;.'..;: ••• 23, 28 26+ 7 17-18th century;;.' 3+ -19th Centl.lI'j;' ...... 6+ 2Qth" Century .'•• i,i" lD European., ...... 28 ZI 30 10 r_ Ancient ...... 3 J.ledievaJ., Renaia-, Bence, Reforma.- tion ••••- •••••••.• 9 )C)dern •••••••••••• 16 Non-Western (inchld- iDg Latin American) U 13~ U 3 Cross Area ...... lD 9 3 IV. ParticipantB (Individ- ual and I:nlItitutional Total Number of Par- ticipanta Cinc1ud- ing Rej)Bata)~ •••• ,. 338 'I J44 1 335 90 94 Number of Academic InBti tutions Represented: ...... 128 122 145 46 43 NoIUlCademiC Repre- I aentation ...... ZI 28 23 16 Foreign Representa- tion...... 52 9 12 13 3 Canadi-nn •••••••••• 40 8 7 13 3 otbe.r-~ ...... 12 1 5 V. ,Attendance (approxi- mata):••• : ••••••••••• 4,(0) 6,(0) 3,(0) 1,20 440 Y.I. lliBtribution of' Par- ticipaIlta by Institu- tion Number cootributiDg " one participant •••• 79 58 72 29 33 Number contributing two participants ••• 13 15 20 6 ~ NuIuber contributing three participants. 4 18 2 II 6 1 Number contributing ~OUl' participants •• 5, 7 9 N.-er cont:ributiDg five participants •• 4 4 Number contributing n:Dre than five par- ticipants •••••••••• ~4 U, lD II 2 I 2 VII: Institutions Contrib- Harvard 17 Columbia 20 Berkeley Harvard Chicago uting Five or lk>re Toronto 15 Harvard 17 UCLA 141~ II Chieago In 6 1 '7 rarticipants .Prinoeton 13 illinoiB U Harvard 12 Yale' 12 'llBeonain U Columbia lD Berkeley ,11 'BerJreley 'lD 'Stanford lD IllinoiB lD Yale lD Washington 9 C:w.cago '9 UClA' 8 Yale 7 Rochester 8 'Pannayl.o, ? ,Indiana 7 Pennsy.lvan;1a 8 vania Chic,Bgo 7 Indiana 8 fuitgm 7 WieC:OWlin 6 ColUlllb.la 7 ',Chicago 7 . Prinoeton 5 Wisconsin 7, Yiahigan 5 Cornall 5 JobnB ~ 6 DuJre ' 5 Korth- ' 5 Hop1dns 'Ohio-State 5 western . ,Yichigan , 6 "Stanford 5 Hew York' Waahington 5 IlRvia 5, University 5 " 'I I:~gan 5 State British Columbia ,lc: ,I I", . ANNUAL MEETING, 1967 39 ./ in relating the program to the physical facilities. The Executive Secretary, Paul L. Ward, was generoU!l in his support of the committee, and his office was always ready to provide assist;mce and information., '" . At its first meeting, the commiJ:tee wr~stled .with the questions every Program . ", C:o.mmittee faces: Should the prograJp. be.orga.nb;ed around asingIe, tlieme? How i' ,r many sessions should ,ther:e be? What major sessiQnS ~hould pe planned? How I f ~'l' should the program be balapced,with .respect to fields, geographical areas, and peI;'i,ods? What professional problems and r~cent interpretationS OF developments '" ~eected to be discussed? The committee quickly concluded that, in view of the size Ii of the meeting the variety of interests represented,. the number of groups meeting " jointly with the Association, aIidthe number of sessions, it.would be impractical to construct a program around a single tlieme. .except one so broad that it would have little meaning. But there, were a number of historical. events, in addition to the Canadian centennial, that ~ad anniversaries in the year 1967: the fiftieth anniversary of the Russian ReVolution and of U,S •. entl'y into World War I, the one hundredth anniversary Of the .purchaseof Alaska, the Feniarrinvasion of Canada, , and the establishment of the Grange, The committeefelt that the-meeting provided an opporturiity to reappraise these events in terms of modern scholarship and i deCided to deVote at, least one session to each. , ~ At avery early date the cOmmittE;!e had to fix the number of sessions for the I program. This decision was shaped not so much by intellectual and academic con siderations as by physical facrors..,..the number ofmeetingrooms.available and the J number of ci~ys of the, mee~g. . But wi~ these limitations, ,there were several options. !he cOmmittf,!e decided, perhaps imwisely, 'to opt for the m~um nUm ber of sessions in order, toac:co~odate the ,widest, range ~ interes~ and to off,er as varied anintelleetualfare as possible. Beca\lSe, a,lmO!l~ ~ of the sessions I went to groups meeting jointly with the Assqeiation, ~eIi willi the' Pla?dnitun num ber of s'es~~ons we freed,om of the c:ommitte~ to plan the,progI-iun was limited. The ~ommittee was uqQer' cOnstant pressure to add sessions, :when 'the pressUre I beca,mejrresistible. Mr. c:onachet was always able tofind anoTher meetfug room. The committee mad~' ~~ ~or:t t0c:leVE;lop a balanced program that wpWd be as fairly repre~en~tive Of the var~CnlS fields as possibleaIid do j~tice to all tlle f interests representeci)n the Pl1ofession. An amuysfswasniade6f seve,ral previous programS', but it was. no easy matter tOligree on the relativ~ Weight tlult shQuld b,e accord,ed to th.e dff{~eni fields and periods, while !illowing for emphal3is on new t and significant' developments and speciBl problems that defjerve9 con~ideration. ." We finally, ap.opte:d a scheme tl1a~ gave approximately equal Weight to American and Canadian hl.fltory and to mwern European hiStory. Ancient hil?tory was as signed three sessions; the medieval period, the Renaissance, and Reformation, eight ~essions; non-Wes!ern areas (iilduding Latift American), thirt~en: si:!sl?ions: and general and professlol,lal .problems, ten sessions. (S¢e Tabltf_ I.) In rea~hing i ~y, this decisioI)., we .were under no delusion that.we had artiyedat magic figure or resolved the problem, Brit the sciJ.eme we adopted proVided a wor:mg Pasis for planning the progratp, apg we did our best .to adhere to, it, . I Each ProgJ;aln Committee is enjoined by the Council of the Association to organize sev~ral major sess~ons of general interest, to avolfI'''repeaters'' and institutional o:verrepresenta~on, and t() limitgroupsmeetingjointlyto 9il~ session. We took these injunCtions seriously and organized at leafjt one mlljpr ?~ssion for the morning an,d afternoon of each day, and when possible,tWg'sudi s"lssions, one at each of the hotE!ls. Judging from attendance figl,lr'es, ~eses~si9ns at tracted, large audiences CIIld were well received. In the ):nag:.ersjOi ilrepe~ters," institutional overrepresentation, and joint meetings, the.tomm'itt~ewas nO,more successful than its predecessors. It did keepthenumbE!r of join~'se~sions for each group down to one. but was forced to allot to several groUPs. a ltin:pheoIi sE!ssion as well. The committee, however, could see no way to avbil~ institUtional over representation or "repeaters"; it is not cerWin that these practice~ c¢,e a:voidable, " I or even undesirable, given the nature of graduate trainiIig and the size of the larger centers of graduate iIistruction in the United States. " i! lL ,. " 40 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION j (;',IJike oth£!t ~committees in the past; wesotight to keep the number of partici 'cp'i1Dts mt"Uch' se,~sl6n to it iIrlriimum, t~ enSUre that papers' were SUbtnitted ,on tlm:~ :tc! tpe chafrmen and, discussants, to arrange SessionS at wmch the papers , W:g#!~!:rlb.ti~ed' in advance, ,and ttl, inilovate ifi other ways-with indifferent .. , 1\ . kS¥c~essJ To l~ave tinie for discussion, we Ijdopted rules llmitiDg the number of t 1!iiPer"S and critics, but as Often ,as fIot were unable to emorcellieJh. We issued ,I " /' lltri£t lnJutl~tions to ail pai1:idipantS qn mee&pg the deadliIies, 'but reports' from chairmen, indicate that ij!ese injptlct?:6ns, hap. 'nO more effecl: this year than in e~lier years; more fuah one cP!iji-Ifi.1U!, reported he had re<;eived the ,paper the deiy before tIlese!3sion or" Ia~er. None of the: participants ,approached shoy.red any illter(!st in having 'his paper tniIneograpbed afid di::itrlj:lUted before the sess~on arId using',the sl:!l;slon fqrdisCJ.tsi3iol), r~tliet' tttan reatU,nghis ,paper; (UI:i1cnoWIl.to me, s,eVeral ,6fthe partfOjpimi:s dfi:lthis eritirely on their' own,''fIitlI aPPgent sticcess, the thairm,an Of ,o~e of .tIle sesSions ,remarldng tha,t .. gr~ater interest is aroused When the i ••• paper. !!3',pr~§ertteA B;~;itl !l '\lllk'or lecture/I). , " " " 'J'her~ wete,bOW$Ver, seveJ:'a+ lnngyatl.on? tAJ$; 'Year that 'Were well ]:"ecetved. R'ather tItan esnvassmg I eve:s;y depar1::Iijefitfu ,the cotloJry for SUggeationsand writirl~,ifir~l:ly to eEl;clI IljQtx.itl'or~8,itizap(lIl, thec9mmittee decj.d~ to use the . AHA Newsletter f{)r thispUrpos!7.QIi, tlie Wh9Je" !:his d~~e workE!d well; it not obly $aVE!tl:'tpneilPq ntailWg expense, hiI~PFOdutec:la HU'ger n\lIDQt;r of, SUggestions from individuals than WQuIa otherwise have been tlle case, For thefitst time also tHeprpgtatn WaS prtrltl:!(j in:·asma11ejhpocket-sk:~~tion sitilil8t mall r!'!m>ects, exctmt .nA.'ertlsemen'tS to thef",;...·I,,-o··;tiJj which'rut lile"'~ s stili," 're- "li -t"- f6r- -,qy.!- ~"'I.' ',. -- ~ll.U:U W &Ptc:'!: ' " " lWJer j Cl:!lVeQ: itt ,adVlitice Thenew ro" am~were dlsti'mntcif at themeetin' ,litio. almost ev'e~oIle",{~,'e~~~,·,~,.'erl,s,,__f:r,:,fJ',e,',O,,'fpm,' _en,t,edf,'itv'fJr" lib,ly,,' _, ,-," ,,'-,,~', - , " '~hi the.p~lIef' thi!t jJr~ Progpaffi. I3lj:oul4 ilic,Ittd~ ,wherever possible; foreign ,s6h6:lats of udte'VltfO ll~ 'a contfiDli1ion to tiIalCeand whOtnAmerlcan nieriibers ~~\®\~Jl:~d MIlr,tfje ~~ipIDr~~w~c;1~i fOtl7f¢l9tl!' ~ort tohicrE!!!se tbe,number oJ" Wir~e .I~A'tl¢Il1arlts. ~ft:Wf!s _cl~Bt:_Js~th(it, the caIiadi!IP lustQrfcM prOf~ssion ,~1iO!:t' l>;e' fWfY mt~~e'\itea'~; tflt PF9~iiill. '~ Qt~~e effortS. the corrifnittee did ~dti~e, §Qiji~ Slfcce~~,', th~s to, tll~ )YqQleh~~1;!d~6operatioh 'pf its Caru¢ian ~s,~ tl!-¢ {;li~fil~Jl _Oft1i~ mcU,V¥ltUtl, ee~st(ms. ~~ogethetl there were ''0 fdl;~ign ,schq~S;9P i?~ ptogr&m., fofty-tWo 6fthwp 'fr6fi\ Gafiadratl msti _.. " _._. Fi~aOn1l>CW~' to \,~ght ,,1;li~ nrenOtlS e~ ~ ~ev~ii the year b¢ote, (See T~l~- I,.), '111 ,id~tf6i,' mere w~r ....ri~itorl 4'pm~e t3u1garmn ap& thE) Soviet ACIiclm-r:fes ofSGiences. f;",'·· ' , " " , .' ~"t"cO:mIhit(ee h.toke new gro~ Ifi 0ile othei-, reSpect: by Qrg~g for, the ffrs,t,t!me in rec~iit }'~.~ a 1l1~!WY ~es§iqti'rOJ;' We f!pst evE!@ig o~ th~ m,eeting, ;~~Jgn Ph~&'b;~r =~~~aj~:!i~:f~~;f::in!t~~iUfur~~:t~:{~~ 'gyers ,his S9cWess. ~,w~ 1t~~omette~ cl.Q~\ah,oUt the "1J3dqm ~~e~eGisi~n. .Much ~,E!t!eticf~!"()f.~o¥s,~,. oni ~~ topiC' ~Ms~, $Il,! i~ waf! fpUtiiy7a'epaed that a dis,Cussion, Of. ~e 'AIir,Iua}c ME;~~K. its~, '?lI!ich $~co~tt~e~ sfr:pqg1y felt was in p r y nE}~d. ~ .ac.;,6 JUP, F~\t~nsiY, e,', ~,},'''',Vi}vt:., w,as, IID,'~ ,'a )?,;\-op"rl8.. te, ~~J~,! f,,9 the, P,lenar: s~'ssl9n,~, The eyerijrigproy~ {to, pe, ~ S1;lcce~s, Wl):h ~ore ~?J;ltlfr'~e hU!J1:lred ill ~~~rt'lanf~ ,'~d i Nv~~Y ~Sl;$~iQlrth~~ ~E1St$d Until ~gui': 1p:30t p:.in',Qn ~e j)~sis .,o.,! ,~~~~iehcl et :Jl~Yea,r','~ 9oi1Jmittee IIiay;~~ tq !;1I;ganize, a,n~fherplenary sesslbntlle first eV'enui-: " " ]" , - ' , '. ' , . ,," ,1ast-mmutediffiCUlt!eS 'es hen scheduled ""c7}~,pI.15tEH~ ~; to~am' eiidO''&it~s"--y-",," _' '~- -" • <', ahdclian",' ,g.,."", , ' 'P~g.QPWl~#e .!Jii!}l:>te~forpne r~asoil'orarlbt1i~j,:to a,ttenc;} t}ie in~eti#!g. BecaUse of illriess. baa weatlier, and, in" one case, the umorttinate death Of a fuetnber"~ it sEi'e'it{~'thereWere,'a' gre~tern11mber of such ch~ges{than'tlSual. ir:i sbfuecases ~~fi~, eniergencles*ere han,dled wIth dispatch at'!d go? ANNUAL MEETING, 1967 41 ,./ Eagles and,Geol'ge F. Kennan fpr·Robert p. Bl'o.wc!«;r ,.on the session "The Fo):"ma tive Period inU.S•.. -Soviet R$g.ons., 19977".1941;!,; Rich¥d, 9rliham for the late George C. A. Boehrer as critiC; for,"Th~ OV~tPr.ow of the Br~ Mo!UU"c!J.y, 1889"; John Bowditch for David. ij. P~ey ~ chjlirmaq for "It~gf.onal JteyoJu .. tionary TrB!litiOlJ., in Nineteenth-Ge.n.tlJry. Fr.anc:e"; Dona#i Treadgold for .Ot~ar I' Odlozilik as chairman of the luncheon Conference on Slayis.and East El,lI"opean I History; WilliatIl, Wej,ntraub io:r. Qonald Brittain on thesessipn 'IThe Exwichment ';' of the Teaching of .lf~tory ti,u;'ough.FWns"; J.Bl1les W.· Silyerf9I" HOW!il'd z.~ as .' ch~man .as,. well as 9I'iJ!c.Jgr ;' Anti'"N.\3grQ. ThOl.lgh~ iI! the; Twentie!h. Cenmry"; Henry· L. Rober,ts j:orCrane: BJ:iint()n ascr,iti~;ior :'Th~ RUS§lUm·R.evoluti,on Fiftieth Anniversary"; R!!-YIn9!H,i ~., O'<;:9nnQr fOJ; q~l,~ A,. .al!rk~, as chairInap for "The Historian in Time ·<>f.·Crisis" ;AIrthur J, Waskow for Gunnar Myrdal on the )uncheonConference: qn' P~9e. :~es~ch iILHtstory!c R~pep.tJ, C,. J?utow's replacement as criticJo~ ':~~g¥tsof,:~eq9ld War iQ As~:' w~ ~oup.~egby bad weather, and there was .. np,tiIJ:),e. W. f¥.ic! !!-fiQJ:her.replacemetl~.· E. J.·W@aIl1Swas unable to appear for the session on "The British Commonwealth in the Twenti~th Century" and ra$er thl!l.l:.4nd a .s~titu~e .aJ the las~ glgm,en~.A. P.,Th~ton enlarged the scope .. of his.papE!I'; final!y,.in the session I?~ ~'tl):"banisminCh4la," Mrs. Wilma Fairb~ r~L¥i Fr~~~ck W. ,Mote's paper. in h41 i al?sence. .. ' f In my e(for~ ~o desq:1be $e)967 m,eetiIlgin. Toronto. ilL sqme D'.l.~ ':Ray, I turned to the 19?~ m~e~ il?J;' inspg€lti,Q!l, .andperhap$ gwdaqce.·ThereSlJ!tsof this cOII:lParison li W~e. .ll,qt: :9p1,y Plt.el'e$g but: $0, 1n§.tructi,ve.. Thir~' o~ .the ~. mlm,who ·r.eap. Pm>ers in'1,93~ !>tJt!~equ~tlY~aJlle Presi!;l~t:!1:o{ tile A.ssocia~oIl, and .two of J;Jl~!ipP.ew~ ~JlP Q!l tile 19{17 program., n~ 1,932 m~t:j.ng Was .held during theqepths qf! tI1~idepresl;lion, a fact that Wal:l r~ec~ed in vari01,1S ways in the progI;am. a~l1Sg Qt"I:!~~tsjfailingdividends, and fro~en bank.deposits," f a ttendan.ce, . Was ~ecte.d tQ fallQif,: b!l~ to the sa!istaction of the :reporter, i1; rqse to 423. M.exPbers. werehQUS~ inJ:lle. ,dormitor~es ,Clitne TJniverfjity of T0J;ontCl. I a fea!!Jre 9f the meeti!lg,. it Was,noted,)ilat was !lot C)nly "reminisc.~tof ~iI;I:. away colilFge daYE/" ,but $9 "consoling to §lhriijldng pockettJooks:' 2 T.o~ "ost for the three-dIlY ~~etingf incl1,!dingPlFgiIiiW~ti()n, m~"androor.n, ,was $12,50. The university played host in 1932 in splendid fashion, with a b/,lAquet on the first \:!Vemn& atwhifh "Th.~ roast, tl:!e puddiIlg, E!nd J:Ilegreat r~' E/ he~!i sn¢! box were bro~t in tQ the sound 0{ $e P4>~ and the ~. II ,Toas~ (liquid Ilot speci-: I•I fied) were I,irurlk t9 the King, the ~res!4ent, .the ASl:locia.ti9O, Ii¢ the Muse.of f f:{1I:ltory.3. At a sp~ial convocation proce9iqg the preI3Ui~tW- adliress_ ("Th.e Epic of Greater ~erica") by Herbert E. Bolt0ll; thc;lea@lg LatinAInericanistiof the ," tUne, the university conferrecfonhim the degree of doctor of laws, after which his f former students presented·him·with Ii two-volume' work prepareli ill bisbon6r, i New Spain and the Anglo-American West. Hospitality was alsbeXtended 'by the truste~s ·of the Royal Ontario MUSeum amrthe Toronto Art: Gallery. By 1967 the meetings of the Association had become "big bUsiness," too large for any university campus or for any single hotel but the largest. The facilities f of seven hotels bad to be utilized to accommodate the Association: in addition to l the two main hotels reserved for the meeting, the Local. Arrangements GOIIUIiittee reserved rooms in various nearby hotels and placed the Professional Register in the Lord Simcoe and several groups meeting jointly with AHA at-the Westbury. Most of the activity, bowever,centered in the Royal York. 'the headquarters botel, t which, with its lobby and three mezzaniIfeiloors, provided more than adequate i space for registration, exhibits, locator file (perhaps the most efficient in recent years), and enough seats'·for relsxedprivate conversations. 1 Reg4ltra~on for the ·lQ67 meeting numbered about 3,500 With tqtaJ.a~enC\ance probably around 4,000, despite the canceliatiol¥l on, acc()un~ c¢.' il,lness' ancl bad ) weather, Meeting Jointly With tiIe Associ?-gon iq 196.7Were thiI;"ty separ!!,te pJ:'gani zations, as compared to ,.seveJ,l,in 1~3,2., Joint IJleetings in,1967ac;countedfor .J thirty-five sessiops., Jl!ore man. 40 per c;ent. of ~e progr:am-a m~~e ,of the growing comple~ty of the.@nual¥ieting and the,prop~erg.s.faceci by the Pr9grlUll and Local Arr~gemeJlts Commit:t~es. The. total llllIPber of sessi~ (including I,J.r------' *" " " ,,' 'r "0' 42 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION .f luncheons and dinners) had groWn frpm twenty.:.eight in 1932 to eighty.:.three in ,. 1967; (See Table I.) As areStilt, ·it was necessary to schedule twelve instead of four similltaneous sessions' each morning and each afternoon of the meeting, Scheduling these sessions in tWo hotels" a subway stop apart to inake possible maxirrium' attendance at the least inconvenience to the members proved one of r.,. our most cllificult tasks, Because of the size of the meeting, the ceremony andentertainnient that made I " the 1932'meetingso pleasant an occasion had to be sharply curtailed or eliminated, " The province of Ontario held Ii reception for the Association, but had to limit in vitations to officers and participants on the program, a nUmber almost as,large as ttie total attendance tliii;t;y-five years earlier, Formal welcome to'the member shiP was extended at the general meeting, held jointly With the Canadian HiStorical ASSOCiation,: byj: M. s. Careless of the UIiiversity of Toronto, As in 1932, the President, Hajo HoThorn, was presented with a volume in his honor by friends' and fabnet .snidentS before he delivered the _presidential' address,' "The History of IdeaS/'4 ' ;; (I " ,': , 1;'lieprograniof the 1932 ineetingr~~ected to some'degree, as does thepro-, gram of most 'of 'the .IIleetiIigs, the temger of the times: contemporary attitudes and interestS of the profession, prevailing trends :incurricul1,1IIlS, and the ldcation of the meeting,5 ThUS; niiie of the 'papers dealt with CailSOiIiIl history 0.1' with a sUbject :teIated ,to Cariadian' history. Concerti with the economic problenis of the time found ,. expressiotiin ·a'riutnber of sessioos in different fields with papers on international fudebtedn'ess,inveStirtentbankirig,;British bOIidholders, Populist panaceas, and a tound2iable diSeussionon the 'econofuic history-Of the ancient world. UIJ.liKe 'more recent programs, there werefew'ses'sioIis on recent history stich' as 'the rise' 'Of fascisIh'lnltaly EUidGerinanY,and the IriOdern'Europeanhis toti8D.s apparently'expressed'their dissatisfaction operuy, The teporter of the me'etilig,ieflectiIig perhapsfiiS views abOut-'the "New History,'! regarded this dWelopmenfWitlI approval, notiilg uuit" ouriliterestB are now slowly moving back of1ce'inOr~ t9'~e- studY Of earlitif problems."6 Examples of suCh interest were the tlireesessions '(including a'diIiner Ih~ting)devoted'to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ' " . ' , Ametibmhistory was dealt With iri one way or another in seven' of the twentY eight sessfoos.There was a session on the colonial period,' a perenIiihl favorite: one on '!Ecoilomic Crisis and' PaIiaceas": and papers onvarious topics ranging from the Northwest fur trade to the MonroeDoctrilie, TWo ofthe;inoreinteresting ., and timely sessions,were ·tlfose on "The Idea of National Interest," with papers by CharlesA. Beard and Ralph H. Gabriel, and the "Frontier," with,'a paper by Frederick L. Paxson and comment by C. H. Ambler and B. W. Wright~ ,Turner had died earJier in the year, and he was mentioned on several occasions during the meeting, Constittltions,l history, which, had. been a strong' field earlier in the century, had no ,place on the program; diplomatic history. only one session, with papersbY',Sammuel Flagg Bemis and Frederick Merk, Three of the sessions in 1932 wer~ in "lion-Western areas":. two·onLlltin America (or Hispanic"-America, €iS ,it was Jhen called) and one ,on the Far East, a field then still in its infancy, ProfessiOIlalpr9plems' were dis,cussed at four sessions, one dealing ,with teaching and q,wricullPlls;one with graduatetraining,thenunder,review by the, Association; o.n~ Wl$;, !IJ"~!rlves: apd on~ With. the reproduction of research materials,. made P9,ss_ible I:ly; Pte deve~opment of new filni, techniques for copying, " , ' . " The 1997 Pl1ogrjiIO hads~ssions on most of, .theJoptcsc,i;Jv~ed 'h.!1932, but there were more of them, and, Pte apProach ref1ecteclt4e jnterests, and,methods 6f 't:!ie 'periOti~ What is' more' sigilificant than the number of sessions deVoted to siinilaror compatable suBjectS are the areas and topics that werenot,treated at the earlier meeting. 7 In '1932 there had been no sessions oli' Aftlca, the Middle , ' East,Soiith or Southeast Asia; rione OD: urblinism, 'elites, mOdernization, science ilndteclinology, 'the pr'oble!Os of WlU" arid peace, '~Weapplication of'PsydiOlogical and soCfologtcal conceptS and ~et1icids'to;Jtlstoty, Of tlief6ut sessio~ at flie 1932 meetings dev6tecf to mOdern Europe; alinosf ill: hlidcfehlt With one or' another L....-_~ __ .~ ___. ," ,< ",' , , , , ANNUAL MEETING, 1967 43 .., aspect of British.· history;. CentraL and,East Europe had been almost totally ignored.8 Althcmgh ,Brita1n"still maintained:1ts,lead.th,irty-five years later, there were six sessions on France !Illd. Italy;: ,three on Germapy ~ Austria.-. BI!'i four on Eastern Europe,: 1ncluc1j.ng, such major sessions as "The Formative P!?I'iod in U.S.-Soviet Relations,,,193]-1941," ,which ,drew"anaudience of ~mQre than two ~ .. • t hundred; "The Rise af:a Great Power: . Austria in. the, Early Eighteenth Century"; '. -" "Social Change and Political, Leadership in Ninet~en$-Clentury Germ8llY," with .t .; two hundred attending;.aDcI "TheRussian Revolution-Eiftieth Ann,iversary:" with I an estimated ql!Clien!=~, 9t five h¢ed. Where in 1932. ther.e J?,ac,t ~. no organi zation concerned~th E$t~ or ,c:entral E!JI"ope; t#~e were ~ 1967 two such groups meeting jomtly w1W the:; ~ ' .. ,' "'" ,. " . The difference petw~p, the tw() meetings "'~ eVident riot only in the areas of Europe.c?vered, Put ~9 >hi the! att~~oIip~ to~e ~CI,..callea non:" Western and emergin,g llfeas of. $e World,., encourlilged and stiPs#Zed .1p large. Part by the '" federal g~ernrilep,t S¥ We fOpnq~t1..cillll. 1#tih AI!l~icawaS aImost' as weurepre sented in 1932.aI? in 19~7, alth91,@l the field haseXpatided gJ,"'eatly s~ce the 1930s. There 'wer~e .fgw::s~s}oiyi,l)ll We .FarEaSt Jil19~7;tw,RQiith~~dle East, two on South .aIpi SO,uJ:hwest Afric~ In 's,everal ofthes~.ar,eas'i#e ,1967 ~rogr~ repr~,;. sented a ,9.~e in tJ:l,e n~Qf allOtt~. sessi()~ compare(} to pie preced.ing years, bpt !ts~~s ~~t that, \is interesr-in stich 'rion-~esterp ~,ea!3 as1ndi!lt Africa, and the Middle East increases, the' attention devoted to, theni ,at the AnnUal Meetings 'will undoubtecuY'iricreaSe:" ,..."....'.'. The emphl}Sisgivt:mto,~er~can history,at,.the 191?7 meeting W.~abOut the sam~ as in~93~ (Petwe~,25 arp. ~ Per ce* of thet6tal pI'ogram), I:Illt'somewhat l,ess than in the precedipg¢e~diig. ~eta,tio between the Pnited ~W:t~s and moderll Europ~. at the twl) meetings,'~howevef.'Nas quite different. In 19a~ th~e had been twice as, many sess~o~ iI;J,Anler:ican as in'modeJ;'n Eur'opean hiStory;iD 1967 the nyo fields received about. the same ~eIght. AlaSka waS .allotted cine session in 1967, but cUd llOt appear at illop the earlier progz:l4D. Both me,etings devoted considerable' attention to. s$jeC1;I;! related to C:W,ladian history, but the eJIlphasis at the E;!,arlier meeting In!.s re~ati\'~y grellter, FlVepf the sessionsiliJ,967 dealt wilh Canaqa b,l one way or anQtI:I~, Put9nly 0ll~ .of, these, "Canada in the Twend,ei:h Century,"/ was on C@adian iriter*all$,tofY,The Qthers compared var'ious aspe.cts of Canadian history (education, religion, natrOnhlisl!l> colonial policy) with J\Inerican or British history, and there was Qne seSsion,ihatYiewed Latin America D::pm the Canadian.perspective. ' ' .. " . . '. It was not only in th~g~aPhic areas .sovered or the weight given to.them " that the two meetin~ differed, bu~' ~soili tp.e appro~ch and treatmeI!tof, these areas; p,.oli~cal ~ diploma* h4!tory: still. ~ad a liu:-ge f6lic,>$g in 19~2, but the interest,in ec;oll0mic and, tQa l~s::ler ,~~~,socialprob1ems dating from the pre World War:I Pe:r,iqd w~ cl~ly evident in. t:b.e pro~am. l;Jy 1967 interest in the$e problems, approached pow .•with greater sOphlstication and chSllgedmeth<>ds, had increased, consid~ably. The nunlberi of seSs~ons.in social iI¢ econotnic history to~led aJn:l,osJ, 29 .per C;el}~ of the PFogr,am, while the p!'oI?ortiP.n of ~e.?sio}lS in p0li.ti.Cal a.nd. diplQ~atic history .haqdecIineq. sharply. TJle inter¢st li.t·reJigious prob~~ . and ~h!.!Fch history had, if anytliing, iricreaS~, oyer they¢.ar!>, with se.\''m:,sessions lieal1ng with the subjectln ciheway o~ anqther, as comP¥"e9 ~o one { in 1932.' Thr.ee of. the sess~o}lS 'W#7e jQiilt meetings With orgaIlizati0pS, that were either denominations)., or concerned priIilarlly yJi~ the hiStory of r~.on. .~~ ()f these groups, the American Catholic Historical Associati~Ii antI the AJneJ,-ican Society of Cpurch History, helq their own separate me~tings in Taront", sitnU::' taneously with the ~ Rinally, th,e 1967 program reflected the, groyiing lntE!rest of histori8ll$ in science and technology as a. field for historIcal research !Wei 1 teaching. There ~ere altog~i:her five sessiOns iIi this area. three arranged by the ) Program Committee and .two by the .HistorY of Science Society and the Society for the History of Technology. LUce the. denoriJinational groUps, the,se two organiza tions held' additional sessionspf their own. f LI'___ _ .". , c, ~ 'J. " , 44 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION .# " ' ,Trends, in the social sciences were reflected·in the treattnent of. almost every . aspect Of history in 1967, in marked contrast to. the 1932 meeting; There were . papers 'on utbariism ('~The Medieval 'Islaritic City" and "Urbanism in China"); on elites iIi different countries and at different periods (medieval England, Renais ,, sance republics, nineteenth-century Germany, and Africa); and on economic de f velopment and the processes ,of modernization ("Ecoriomic Development, South . ,. east Asia and West AfriCa," and "Modernization in TokugawB Japan"). The impact " .;' , ,I of social science concepts and, computer technology :was ~dent throughout the program,teflecting . tlie ,iIiterest of the, liistorlaDin applying deVelopments from other dIscipl.iIles to his own~ "in fusing the new niethOd of social and psychological analysis ~th his tradIti,onal story-tellingiun,ction. ,,9 A s'ession on "BIbliography and Technology, "reporting tile wq~k of. the J oiiItCoinmittee on BIbliography, dealt V{ith the poteIitial use tlf cqmputers as, ~ irld in the development of bibliography; the session on "Psychology and History"· offered a psychiatric interpretation of ROman histo~;"Frepch Meti,loos ip HistoriCill Sqciolbgy" were describ~ in 'a session on' the Six,i,ew"e. ~~tiOD, oftl;ie EC9le Pr;atique des Hautes EtUdes, with a case study· on the. demggrappy of. the FloreI).?ne. patricians; the work' Of French and ,German sqcio~ogi~~'was dealt with i? ClllssicalEuropean Sociology betWeen CoI'ninunity and. Society"; the re1ationsh!i? betwe~n sc:ierice and political thoUght was.'dIscussed in "Science !IIldPolitical Ideol?gy." In addIdon, there were seVeral papers ill' which these metliods arid' concepts were applied to hiStorical problems, with interesting results. . .. ., ' .., .' . . The comparative metliod, so much in vogue in the social scIences: is notnew to the historian. There were several such sessions in 1932, sessiOns that combined papers. on cuffei"~t peti~sota,reas', butfoCuS~ on i{ particular problem. Interest in this, approach lias iIicreased, or perhaps revived,· in recent years, wimessed by. tlle establi.siune~tofihe jotiI1!ll Comp/rra'tive ShidI~s iIi: SoC1etyandHlstory in 19:?~, ,and there were by a conservative count at least ten sucli sessions at .the 1967 meeting. AIilongthem were those' comparing the :r<;,1e of ,the ~ontier in Argenti.oa and Australia;. exploring the origins of war tlir6ugli a study of the Peloponnesi.an War, the Hundred Years' War, iuid World War I; relating c6m r:n~rcial P9~cy and' nation,al ~terest to w~tld peac~ through Ii dIscussion of the policies ofC6bden and Hull. The separation of church and sUite iIi Canada and the pnfted States ~as compared aruicontrasted in one session; labor and politics in Britain arid America in another; British colonial policy in still another. The historian's concern withprofessional problems-teaching, method, inter ,i pretation, archives, and the:role of the ·lrlstorian__ is evident in both the 1932 and 1967 meetings, arid undoubtedly in the meetings of the'interveniIig years. In 1932 there were four stich se::;sions, a paper by G. M. Wrong on "The Historian's Duty to Society," and a luncheon qfthe .~toria1staffs of ltlstorical reviews, appar!mtly an annu!il.affair. By 1967 the ~torial staff luncheon haa dIsappeared from the program, but in its steadwa~a.s~ssldn lriwhich the editors of three journals and two other historians dIscil~s¥-I'Tlie Ch?riging FUf1ctions of Historical Journals:" There were three sessions pil 'teachingi . one ~n the use of filri1~, with an exhibit, one .on. religion ,and. the' p~lic. schools; and one on new qevelopm,eots if ipJl:"ool ductory history courses that drew an mterested and lively audIence of abOutlliree hUIldi.ed. interest ill methOd, interpretation, !lIld research problems fCltu).d expres siOll, in ~ large nmnber, ()i,sessions,some of which have already been noted. 'Among J;he ~.essio~' of .~s. type. were. tliose 9Il "The Uses and LiIilitations ~ Prosopo ~aphy in R.oman History;~t "The Remtet;pretation ofR'econsiructie:ln," "The Future of East C;entr!i1. and SClutheast .E:uropean StudIes," and "On the Value of Asian Travel." The role of the historian both as a citizen and professionafwas the sUbJect of two se::;sioils: "The Historian ill Time ()fCrlsis" dealt With the issue in general terms (but with Viemam clearly in vieW); "Histodans and the Law'~ discussed a specific problem, the. Frick ,case,in which historians had a prOfes " sional stake. Interest in archival problemS, which in 1932,.when the National Archives was being established, had receIved considerable attention~' was not high in 1967. In view of the recent report of the Joint Committee on the Status of the " ,. ANNUAL MEETING, 1967 45 j Table II 8 II ttl" I' ~ " ., 6 -- ·f rI i..-- ,/ , .; S ""- - ' I t "'-""" ~ ~i '" I, .. I\. / t --- l 3 } 2 '" j I '~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ » ~. ~ ~,~ b ~ ~ ~ ~ _ ~ _ Number of Scssioril at Annual MCdin8'l1~ (in lCIU) 16 ~• I} I I 14,L ~ T-H I I I I I I I 1 ~~"~_ I I IV'I -!-t \ .11 I) ~ ~ I -4-~ .I- I 1/I -t-j U _I 1"1 I '1 _q~ .I I I I ~~+-~ fl ti } II -I-!!J I 1 1 I, Till. 17 -+.:;:~ A 'j! I" 'I B j 10 rr-r~-r-+-Ll t ' '-- T _. I 1 +R" V - i -:-l 9 [_J , I J .' ,AV' I -l !~ e, T I t-'--!- I I • A" 'I I Ii .-; ." I~ ,: ~ I' , 1/i,'T I I I 1 I I, -I- _/ I ---" ' ,r--l 6 T rt;;;;iOiI-+-- ....,.=-''iooi' ~' ',...-1"" .... , I' ' --tI , '-, . I,,-lI ' ,1-"1 ~ j I 4 - I 1 I ~ I ~--I iJ I 'T-I-' I I' I' t , 3 I T ~ 1 -'-;.... 1-' ...... f""I- .. r-.. '.... V .i .t ':::;~ ',,~ f, =-- a.a .ti · aaa .ti 1 - II .' ---., 1 I _'.1 II...:l I I I'.. ' ' ' ,'-'"1,... ' I I ',I,~.I ·1 .1. IJ:'.. - 1~--' !fit " ,51! 53 'Sf- I » -)6" 57' ".,a 59 ~ 6L' 6.t 6] 6t- fiS. :66 'fi1 61 ~, ,AHA p~ ~embmbip,1953-66 (in ~~1,' " { ~ •. AIteod.~ at ADIlUil ¥~ ~5I5~ ~iD'~) } !. '~ J "h ' "I ., ,',' , i \_ ,~ >''' ){ 46 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ,,# National Archives, this question is likely to receive additional attention in the . future, ' . It ~aycome as a surprise to most historians that the program of their Annual Meetings sb.otild constitute a social document as well as a record of their activities, <" interests, arid research. But no one can review the record of past meetings as ,I t I have done without being struck by how quickly historians react to contemporary ... issues and problems, bOw faithfully their annual programs mirror the world about " ..I " them. The 1932 meeting, both In content and local arrangements, clearly refJected the economic conditions of the time; the 196Tmeeting reflected to an even greater degree the concern and involvement of the historian with the foreign and domestic policies that divided the nation. In the latter there were nine sessions comprisihg altogether twenty papers that dealt with the problems of war and peace, and with military history-a field that had received much attention in an earlier period but had been ignored in the 1932 program. These sessions ranged in time from the fifth century B. C. ("Peacemaking in Classical Greece") to a bold projeqidn irito the future ("Peace and War: The History of the; United States, 1939_1999")10 and dealt with such diverse topics' as the inilltary policies of IslamIC states between 1400 and 1700, ,the French and Russian Revolutions, military factors in, Anglo American relations early in' the tWentieth century, the entry of the IJriitro States into World War. I, the ,co14 war in Asia, and the official history of the war in Vietnam. Interest in the subject was evidenced by the large audiences these sessions drew, ranging from 250 for the World War I sessIon to 500 fOr;the session, on '~Origins of the Cold War in Asia" and 600 for "The Historian in Time of Crisis," the largest for any single session except the general meeting. Contemporary concern with domestic problems arising from the growing complexity of tu,"ban life, the rights of Negroes and other minority groups, and the impact of,technology was, reflected in the program in a variety of ways, but not in so' str:ikin~ a manner as the issues of foreign policy. In addition to the sessions on urbanism, elites, and technOlogy, already noted, there were several sessions on minority groups:" "AiIti-Negro Thought in the Twentieth Century," "AOti Semitism in Western Europe, 1000-1500," and "The Role of Ethnic, Religious, and Minority Historical Societies in the United States." Social problems and the relationship of the individual to society were discussed in different settings in the sessions on "Nineteenth-Century Patterns of Reform in the Un1tedStates"; "Changes in American Manners and Morals," which'dealt with divorce' and 'the changing role of women in .Am~ican society; "The English Penal Laws: Persecu tion or' Precaution?"; "The Child and the State," which included a paper on the " Negro clilld; "Family and Family Solidarity in Italian History," with papers on the medleval and modern: periods; and "Society and the Individual" in the medieval period and the Renaissance. ' Only two prIZes were awarciedln,1967. One of these, ,the Albert B. Corey Prize, is new; itis awarded joindybyj:heAmex;ican and Canadian Hist~!calAssociations iri odd-niJIiIbered years forme Dest work: on: Canadian-U.S. relatioils 'or on the history of both cquntries. It was awarded this year to Gustave Lanctot, University of Ottawa (em~itus),whci had read apaper at the 1932 me€tihg; for Canada and the American Revolution. The George LoUis Beer Prize, awarded also in 1932, went to two men: Ge ANNUALMEI3TJNG,1967 47 ... mately four hundred members who attended the Annual Meeting could be accom modated on most college campuses. (See Table 11.) By 1967 the small meeting, one historian reminisced nostalgically, had "gone the way of the four dollar hotel : room B.nd the pleasant meal in the diner going down." The horizons of the his torian had been extended to include virtually all parts of the world, reflecting the .. world-wide interests and commitments of the United States. New fields had been \ " r opened up and new methods made possible by technological changes, and advances " ff in the social sciences had been developed. The nature and interests of the pro ) .... I fe'ssi9n had changed sfgTIificantly by. 1967, ,and its membershiP had inCreased to sixteen thousand. The Annual ,Meeting; reflecting these changes, had grown enor mously in size, a victim' of ItS own pr6speI-fty. Attendance had increased tenfold, the number of sessions had tripled, 'and there were thirty organizations meeting jointly with the Association instead of seven. still the m~etings were held during the same period of the year and for the same duration (three dayE') as they had been thirty-five years earlier. There is much tbbe said for tradition, but whether it is possible to continue the pattern of past meetings indefinitely into the future, as the Association continues to grow, is a question that can no longer be avoided. Louis Morton, Chairman, 1967 1 American Historical Review, XXXVIll (Apr. 1933),431. "H. E. B." presumably refers to Henry E. Bourne, Managing 'Editor of the Review during that period. 2 Ibid., 431. --- 3 Ibid., 432. 4 The address is published in the February 1968 issue of the Review. The volume presented to Professor H9IPorn is The Responsibilities of Power: Historical Essays in Honor of HajoHolborn, edited by Leonard Krieger and Fritz Stern (New York, 1967). ' , , . 5 The 1932 meeting, coming between the yeatsofCarl·L. Becker's and Charles (, A. Beard's presidencies, may well have been atypical in reflecting the mood of the profession. ~t 6American Historical Review! XXXVill, (Apr. 193:3),438. The shift away from recent history in 1932 was probably not typiCal, judgir}g ftoAl other AHA meetings " of the 1930s. The Journal of Modern HistorY had been"establislied iil1929. 7For an account of the growth Of the profession during these years, see John Higham et al., Hi;rory (Englewood Cliffs, N. J., 1965), esp. 26;'51, 268-87. 8The influx 0 European scholars fleeing dictatorship and racial persecution did not affect American scholarship until the mid- and late i930s, . ! 9H. Stuart Hughes, History as Art and Science (New York, 1964), 77, quoted in Higham et al., History, 138. . ,'. " " , J 10 Because of a change in the scheduled program, this paper was n.9t listed. J, m " :# t 334-554 C>-69--5 /.J " " '" , , AMERICAN HISTORICAL 'ASSOCIATION J : .. ; '40 " l v , ... c ,# " PROGRAM OF EIGHTY -SECOND ANNUAL MEETING ~OYAL YORK HOTEL TO:RONTO,- CANADA 28-30 DECEMBER 1967 WEDNESDAY, 27 DECEMBER Meeting of The Council THURSDAY, 28 DECEMBER Morning Sessions THE FORMATIVE PERIOD lNU S ..;SOVlET RELATlONS, 1937-1941 Qhairman: Selie Adler• .5tate University of New York at Buffalo ArriPassador Josep E. Dayies:, The AmateUl',in Moscow, 1937-1938 Keith D. Eagles, University of Waterloo Ambass~or LaurE!!lce A., Steinhardt: The Amateur as Professional in Mos cow 1939,..1941 n::avis B: Jacobs. Middlebury College Comment: Robert p. Browder, KansaS State University o. Lloyd c. Gardner, R~*ers University TWO FEDERALISTS IN RETROSPECT Chairman: Merrill D. ,Peterspo, University of Virginia Alexander Hamllton. The Man Wlihout a Country Lynn Hudson Parsons,-, Wayne State University !, Retrospect on FoUridiDg: JOM Adams Marvin Meyers, Brandeis, UniversitY Comment: David H. Fischer, Brandeis University H. Trevor Colbourn, University Of New Hampshire THE OVERTIiROW OF TIiE BRAZILIAN MONARCHY,1889: NEW VIEWPOINTS Chairman: Dauril Alden, University of Washington The Brazilian Armed Forces, Before and After June E. Hahner, Texas Technological College " 48 • 1.1- ,. ~ ~ ,,~" , .~ ~\ , " , .~ ANNUALMEETlNy, 1967 49 J The Role of the Planters IF' ~ ~' • Robert Conrad, University. of lllinois, Chicago. Circle Comment: George C, A, Boehrer, University of Kansas a " " f' THE RULING CLASS IN ,EARLY RENAISSANCE REPuBLICS " Chairman: Gene A, Brucker, UniversitY of 'California, Berkeley " ~Florence'in the Late F01Jrt~Iith'and Early Fifteenth Centuries '" Anthony Molho, Brown University The Venetian Nobility, 1370-1440 . Stanley J. ChOjnacki, Michigan State Univer~ity . Comment: ,,' ~ '" ~ FrederiC C, Lane, The JohnSfIOpki.Its University } .! BIBLIOGRAPHY AND TECHNOLOGY. \ Chairman: Luther H; Evans, Columbia University The Historian in the Era of Technological Change FJ:'ank G,Burke; Natioruu ArcbivesaDaRecords Service New Trends in Bib1iographic~~Services ~ Dagmar H. Perman, Washington, D,C, Comment: .' . ~ MelyWe J, Ruggles, White House National Advisory Committee on ) Libraries . ,I. Eric H, Boehm, American Bib~ographical Center ( Brook r " \ ALASKA: CHALLENGE TO AMERICAN INGENUITY .f Chairman: Vernon Carstensen, ~ University of Washington 'I The Sitka Frontier, 1867-1873 { Ted C, Hinckley, San lose State College The Alaska Railroad and Territorial Development \ William H. Wilson, Seattle, Washington Comment: I Jeannette p. Nichols, University of Pennsylvania f PEACEMAKING IN CLASSICAL GREECE \ Chairman: A, E, Raubitschek, Stanford University The Peace of Nicias ' J Ronald P, Lefft' University of Illinois, Chicago Circle The Peace of An cidas ,~~. .'~ > { Charles 0, Hamilton, University of Chicago o!; Comment: . 1 Chester G, Starr, University ~of Illinois ., ',j f \, ! \ \ , ------I' ," ."" c> '". .1 '5'0 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIA TlON J Joplt S~!,i?nwJ:h .,,' The-'American Military Iiistitute , f. ~ CONTEMPORARY HISTORY AND WAR c, • l Chairman: Peter Paret,.Univ.ersity; of Oalifornia, Davis q .,J , Official Risto:n' c~ ~~c V{~ ~ YietnaIll., cC " CharlesB~~MacD9na.ll4Office, ,Chief Of Military History, Depsrtmentof the Army ': ,'il Comment c\ C. p. Stacey. University of Toronto John Shy. University of MiChi~r" Leonard Krieger, U,niV~Sity,~ C~.cago Joint Session with The National,Council for the Social Studies THE ENRICHMENT, OF. THE TEACHING OF'HISTORY THROUGH FILMS Chairman: Leo F. Salt, Indiana UrUversiijr .' , ' The Historian ana Historic81 FlliDs • "I'e' ' William H. McNeill, University of Chicago The Film PrOducer'aDd the Responsible ProduCtion of Fllmsfoi-theHistory Classroom c', c c' Donald Brittain, NatlonSlFilfu S6arc{of GaD8d~ Comment: The Use and ~e,ofcFcllms}n, (:!las.sroofI1 Instruction Dean Albertson; UniversitY,Of MassachUsetts c John Dahl, University ofIlliDc:iiSiC¥inP!ijgn REGIONAL REVOLUTIONARY TRADITION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE c ,c , Chairnian: David H. Pinkney, UniversitY of Washington The "Republican" Insurrection of 1884 in Lyon ' ,I Robert J. Bezucha. UniversitY of Michigan The First International an~ the LyonR,cE!Volutionary Movement, 1870-1871 t~n:~~her, ,Univer:sio/,¢ c~conSln, " Leo A. Loubke, State University of New York at Buffalo, Louis M. Greenberg, University of Maryland JOint Session with The Conference Group for, Central European History THE RISE OF A GREAT POWER: AUSTRIA IN THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Chairman: Arthur J. May, Uriiversi§rof Rochester Politics ", .', , William B. Slottniatt. Ufllvetsit,Y Of California. Berkeley EconomIcs c , Herman Freudenberger, Tulane University Culture , ' t0hn p. Spielman, Jr•• Haverford College '. omment: John B. Wolf, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle i ~ ______"r- ____~--~~( • <-11> ..< }~ , . ANNUAL MEETING, 1967 51 ..I' Luncheon Conferences CONFERENCE ON LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY Chairmap: Woodrow Borah, University of'California, Berkeley It Latin America from the Canadian Perspective .' '. , f John W. Holmes, Director, Canadian Institute of International Affairs " 'I I' .... PHI ALPHA THETA Chairman: Homer L. Knight, Oklahoma State UDiversity .\ Political Murder, 1900=Style: William, Goebel of KentuckY' Bennett H. Wall, Tulane UniversitY SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHrvIsTs . Chairman: Clifford K. Shipton, Harvard University Guest Speaker: W. Kaye Lanili' Public Archivist of Canada } ) CONFERENCE ON SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN HISTORY Chairman: Otakar Odlozllik, University of Pennsylvania I. The Future of EaS.t Central and.Southeast EtJropean,Sttidies \ Charles Jelavich, Indiana Bniversity . Afternoon Se,ssions i ? \ t t HISTORICAL " II } , j ) CHANGES IN AMERICAN MANNERS AND MORALS Chairman: Nelson Manfred Blake; Syracuse University Divorce as a Moral Issue: A Huncfroo Years of Contr,over'sy \ William L. O'Neill,Uniyersityof', Wisconsin Emergence of the New Woman Lawrence W. ChisholID, 'Yale University 7'{~ Comment: ames R. McGovern, Newton COllede elf the Sacred Heart Barbara M. Solomon, Radcliffe Co ege ~? I \ ,. 52 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION J J 6intSessionwith The American Jewish Historical Society THE ROLE OF E':['HNIC; RELIGIOUS, AND MINORITY HISTORICAL SOCIE- I. I TIES IN THE UNITED STATES' . . , I r Chairman: ,Oscar I. anows ,Brandeis Universi Ethnic Historic ocieties: From F 0- iety to Sc olarship " / Rudo~h J. Vecoil, University of Minnesota and American Italian His toric Association "Melting Pot" Historical Societies: Panaceas a.nd Progt"ams Walter MwrWhitelilll, . Boston. AthenaeUm Comment: t0hn J. ~pel, Mic~an State University enneth~ Bjork, t. OlSf College and Norwegian-American Historical Association ., ..... Joint Session With The American Society for Reformation Research THE IMPACT AND ASsESSMENT OF LU'lHER IN SLi\VIC LANDS Chairman: George H. Williams. Harvard University Bohemia Frederick G. Heymann, University of Calgary Poland ..'.' Harold 0. J. Brown, Lausarule,' Switzerland Comment: Peter Brock, University of 'toronto. J. K. Zeman, Baptist COnv_el1tIOIl_9f onta.t'~9.1lDC\ Quebec FRONTIERS IN ARGENTINA AND AUSTRALIA Chairman: Howard R. Lamar,.Vale iJDiversity - . . The Argentine Frontie!!' in the Nineteenth Cerifury " Roberto. Cortes. Conde ,and,.NichoUls Sanchez-Albornoz, New York Uni- versity , The Exploitation, of .the Australian Frolltier in the L!iter Nin.eteenth Cen tury-An OVerview K, A. MacKirdy, University of Waterloo COIDIIlent: ' " ' '.,.; _,' Ttillo H~erin-POiJ.~.Harv.arCl Pfiiv~sity Samuel ~ MCCUlloC;UrilversltyotCaIHornia, Irvine MEDlEV AL FINANCE Chairman: John FrederiC Benton, California Institute of Technology Carolinian Finance Howard L. Adelson, City College of the. City University of New York Thirteenth-Cent$:y EI1,~h9Psand G~ters' Robert Brentano, University,of CalifoJ:Dia, Berkeley Italian CommunBl Finance ... William M. Bowsky, University of California, Davis Comment: '. Joseph R. Strayer. Princeton University ,'.111- ' " \,. ANNUAL MEETING, 1967 53 ./ MILITARY POLITICS IN nrn,ISLAMIC STATES-EARLY MODERN TIMES Chairman: H~ N. Howard, American University .. Military Politics ~ Succession in the Muslim Dynastic States, 1400-1750 Jacob C. Hurewiti, Columbia Uirlversity , , The Military Policies Of Sfi8ll i Abbas the Great; 1587.,..1629 n ... .r Hafez Farman-Farmaian, University of. texas ' , " Comment: '" Roderic H. Davison, George Washington University SOCIAL CHANGE AND POLITICAL LEADERSHIP INNlNETEENTH-CEN'IURY \ GERMANY ;\ Chairman: Andreas Dor'palen, Ohio State University 1 Paliamentary Elites ' 1 James tJheehan, Northwestern University· I The Pruss Bureaucracy I bohn R. Gillis, Princeton University ( omment: Lenore 0' Boyle, Corineeticut College ~ Paul R. Duggan, Harvard University i Joint SeSsion "P,th . . J The Society fotHistorians of American Foreign'Relations \ A QUESTION OF ALTERNATIVES: THE ENTRANCE OF THE uNITED STATES ~ INto WORLD wAR 1 ' , Chairman: Arthur S. Link, Princeton University i Wilson, B:ryan, and,Lansing Paolo E. Coletti,UnIted States Naval Academy ( The RevisiOnist Historians i Warren 1. Cohen, Michigan State UniversitY ~ Comment: ,. ,:. ' ' ) Ai'exander DeConde, Universi of California, Santa Barbara ) Ro ert H. Ferre ,In ana University . ,f' ANGLICANISM, CATHOLlClSM,ANq:W~ VIcro~,'J;'E'~ER . Chio/man: ,R. K. Webbg ColuInbia University' " .' The Papal Aggression Of 1 50 ' , 1, Walter A. RaIls, Hobart and William Smith Colleges The Vatican pej~~~~,C9fit?ioversy, 1~74~18'l5 ',' 1I Josef L. Afuoli, UmveJ."sit}' of Mimiesota' . ,l Comment: . , ' .' , Richard J. Helmstadter, Ur,rlversity of Toronto, i \ Joint Session with ~> /1 The American Society of Church History l THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH A.Nb STATE-TWO NORTH AMERICAN AP PROACHES i Chairman:' Lee Daniel Snyder, Ohio Wesleyan University 1 The Origins of Canadian Disestablishment . . \ John S. Moir, University of Toronto' ) I , \ \ .' l ~~ - ~ J- '- j ''1" " "-1-"' , ~ ~ :.. 54 AMERICAN HlSTORlCAL ASSOClA TION .I COInmon 8&00f: Gommon Religion? A Case Study In Church-5tate Rela tions, Cincinnati, 1899-1870 : Robert Michaelsen, University of California, Santa Barbara Comment: ;1 IJ G. S. French; McMaSter University l' r John F. Wilson, Princeton University " ,.# , Difuier MEDlEVAL ACADEMY OF AMERICA Chairman: JosephR. Stra~ Princeton University~, The Golden Age Of the Mectiev t Bryce D. Lyon, Brown University Plenary Ses~ion Symposi~ , " THE ANNUAL MEETlNG OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL AsSOCIATION: PURPOSE, PROGRAM, TIME, AND PLACE Chairman: John K. Fairbank, HarVard University Panel: " ., . . . " " 'i Robert F. Byrnes, Indiana University J. B. Conacher, Univers~ Of Toronto Robert, D; "cross.' Present" Hooter College of the City University of New York Louis Morton, Harvard University. Paul L. Ward, Executive Secretary, American Historical 'Association FRIDAY, 29 DECEMBER Morning Sea aiona ANTI~NEGRO THOUGHT IN THE TWENTIETH CENWRY Chairman: Howard'Zinn,Boston Urtiver~ '.' .. , Mass Murder as Moral Reformf' The AtJ1lIlta FT~ss and the Race Riots of 1906 , , r=ii=-:===-;;;;''';:::~~:;;:'::';'';~=4',-=of~'..:;GeO;;,:::r=,!'~a, '" ' Anti-Negro 0 t m e e:n,~ . ~tury: A CommentarY It A. Newby, California State College afFtillerton Comment: . . . . James Wt Silver, University of Notre Diune ' MelViri Dilmmer, SpelIrian College, Atliliita University Center Joint Session with The South~n Mistorical ~soqation NlNETEENTH-CENWRY PATTERNS OF REFORM lNTHE UNITED STATES Cha1rman:iSuinas Malone, UniVerSi~ of Virginia The Significance of the Grimke Sisters South Carolina Adrienne Koch, University of Maryland J 't~ ,- , ~ '';'. ~ • ANNUAL MEETING, 1967 55 /' Comment: Betty L. Fladeland, Southern Illinois University Bertram Wyatt-BroWn, Case-Western Reserve University " r Joint Session with , ..I The Society for the History of Technology I RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGY Chairman: Lynn White, Jr., University of CB1ifornia; Los Angeles A Renaissance Humanist Looks at "Modern" Inventions: Viovanni Tortelli A. G. Keller, Case-Western Reserve'University . A Reassessment of Leonardo's "Inyengons" . '. . Ladislao Reci, Elmer Belt Libi:'Bry ofViIiciana, University of California, Los Angeles . . . " .. . Comment: Robert S. Woodbury, Massac'busetts'Ihstifute of Technology Gustina Scaglia, Queens College of the-City University of New York EUROPE AND AMERICA: THE TRANSMIsSioN OF IDEAS Chairman: Herbert 1. Bass, 'Temple University Vengeance and Technology: Radicill Sociill Theory in America Loren Bariti, University of Rochester The "New Men" Quantum Physics Reaches America, 1919-1932 Coniliient: Abraham S. Eisenstadt, Brooklyn College of the City'· UniversIty of New York " 1 1i ( e ," I f 1\ \ t } THE USES AND LlMlTATIONS OFPROSOPOGRAPHY IN ROMAN HISTORY ( Chairman: Edward T. Salmon, McMaster University I l The Republic "'. . .• ., Erich S .. Gruen, University Of CaliforIiia, Berkeley ) The Empire .. i 1 I ArtherL. Ferrill, University of Washfngton Comment: William G. Sinnigen, HuIiter co~e of the City University of New York Meyer Reirihold; University Of souri I J ~ '~ , ;i~~ \ " .. -1".,' " J \ I I \ " ,.. , , . , ',' 56 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION .I ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR IN ASIA: SOME RECONSIDERATIONS Chairman: F. Hilary Conroy, University of Pennsylvania The China Question . .' . John F. Melby, University of Guelph GenesiS Of the Southeast AsIa problem ,t c '\ !' Norman A. Graebner, University of Virginia <, Comment: /' /' John K. Fairbank, Harvard University Robert J. C. Butow, University Of Washington THE IMPACT OF NAPOLEONIC POWER ON GERMANY Chairman: Franklin L.Ford, Harvard University Reform InVades the Hometown Communities Mack Walker, Cornell UniversitY,' '. Patr~(n:ic Consp~a,cyin Prtpls~!l:' S~all,.~group Behaviqr aDd Decisionmaking RiCliIlrd C. Raack, California State College at Hayward Comment: George G~ Windell, University. of Delaware FRENCH METHODS IN HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY: THE SIXIEME SECTION (ECOLE PRATIQUE DES HAUTES E1lIDgS) Chairman: Robert Forster. The)ohns Hopkins University Aims and MethOdS. Of the Sixieme Section ,....' .'. . "'" Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurle, Cenn:eNationaldelaRechercheScientifique, Paris ','. A Case study: The Demography of the Florentine PatriCians, Sixteenth Nineteenth Centuries Ie BUrr Litchfie1cI; Dartmouth College . Comment: Theodore K. Rabb, Princeton University " \~ THE WARS OF RELIGION AND HuGUENOT POLITICAL THOUGHT, Chairman: Perez Zagorih,'UniveI'sitY of Rochester The Ideological'ana Political MotiveS of Innocent Gentillet's Antimachiavel .. Antonio D' Andrea, McGill University The Monarchomach rriUI):l~it;'§: l',lottnan, Beza, and M6n:J,ay Ralph E. GieSey, UIilvers'UY Of Iowa • • ~ Comment: ' . Robert M. Kingdon, University of W4Ic9nsip THE MUGHAL EMPJRE IN EIGH'I'EENTH-GENJURY INOFA: REGI0NAL STUD IES OF IMPERIAL DECLINB ,:; Chairman: P • D. Curtin, Universi of Wisconsin The Development a Fegion ., _y ~. tented Ruling 'Group in B~gaJj PQO •.il757 Philip B. Calkins,University of Chica~ ";, ; " . Urdu Uterature ana Loss Of .faith in M al Idehls in' Eighteenth:-Gentury Hindustan ,.. . Frederick L. Lehniann,. University of British Columbia . New Elites in Hyderabad ., 1 ' Karen I. Leonard, Ann Arbor, Michigan Comment: Anthony Low, University of Sussex .. 11',,_, ,- -" -, ANNUAL MEETING, 1967 57 ,/ HISTORIANS AND THE LAW Chairniiut:Edward DUmbauld, Judge, U.S; DiStrict Court for the West ern District of Pennsylvania The Role of the Joint Committee in the Frick Case ~ Paul L, Ward, American HiStorical ASsociation '> (' Historical Publication and the Constitution " Alfred H. Kelly; Wayne State University , .,; Comment: ,I " Horace Krever, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto Luncheon Conferences MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY SECTION Chairman: J. H. Hexter, Yale University The Enlightenment, Dead. ana Alive Peter Gay, Columbia University ~ ) l THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CHURCH HISTORY Chairman: Elwyn A. Smith, TerI}ple University Presidential Address: The Attack on the Blli1ic81 Work of Lefevre d'Etaples, 1514-1520 . . _ .., . . . ~ Richard M. Cameron, Boston Uriiversity School of Theology t CONFERENCE ON ASIAN HISTORY . . 1 Chiiirmim: HarrY J. Benda, Y 8J.e University • On the Value of Asian Travel J WoOdbridge Bingham; University of-Callfoinia, Berkeley I;" , ,) AMERICAN CATHOLIC HIstORICAL AssbcIATION i Chairman: Francis Lyons Broderick, Lawrence University Newington Green-A Study of a Dissenting Community Carl B. Cone, Univeristy of Kentucky \ Ii Afternoon Sessions ) •, oJ THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION..;..FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY \ Chairman: John W. Holmes, Director,Canadianlnstitute. cit International } Affairs The Universality and Uniqueness of Russian Revolution r Cyril E. Black, Princeton University z Comment: . . ~ i Crane Brinton, Dartmouth College \ I, ) ( 'J, \ ~;-, ~ ~\~~------~------.------~y~--~--~------.------. if ~ I' -.' - *'1- i l "" ~ . , I ;\ 58 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ,i! OPPORTUNITY IN EARLY AMERICA ,.,' ' , Chairman~ JacksonTurn~ M!dn. S~te Uni:versity~ NewYor~ ai;Siony , : Brook Sources of American Leadership , Peter M. G. Harris, Harvard_University. 't:' I. , ' ",f,., Land, Population, and the Evolution of New Englarid SOcIt;!tj' i' Kenneth Lockridge, University of, Illinois, Chicago Circle, t J! Comment: ' . ..- . .- "" , I R. Eugene Harper. Morris, Harvey College Robert E. Brown, Michigan StateUlliversity Joint Session with '" The Conference on Latin Amer~can History i J : J ~; . LATIN AMER]CAN COLONIAL VALUES IN ,THE cQN'rE~ipORARY sCENE Chairman: Charles Gibson, University of Michigan The History of Institutions Lyle N. McAlister, University of Florida The History Of Ideas Charles A. Hale, University ,of Iowa Comment:' '-" ", '" 7 Robert A. Potash, University of MassachUS,etts ~ ;.<.. , - .' . "- - -.. >' ~ • " !; THE ENGLISH PENAL LAWS: PERSECUTION OR PRECAUTION? Chairman: Thomas H. Clanci1i Loyola Univer.sim New Orleans ; Social and Economic Status aDd ,e ImpattlOfthe E~8bethan Penal Laws William Trimble, Loyo'laUniverslty; Chicago ., ,'., -, '. " The Eighteenth;..(}entllty Experience: The Last Days of the Pena1Laws Ronald W. Linker, PennsylVania State UniVersity , Comment: Anthony H. Forbes, Northern Mic:higan UniversIty Joint Session with The Social Welfare History Group THE CHILD AND THE STATE Chairman and Comment: Clarke A, Chambers, UniversitY of Minnesota Grace Abbott's The C/ill.d and, ~e, S~te: /'. Retrospectiye Review ~ Robert H.. Br,emner, Ohio State UniversitY MaterniiI and child Health in the Sociil Security Act , . William M, Schmidt, Harvard University School of Public Health' The Negro Child and the State . .. . , ". V. John Barnard, Oakland University SOCIETY AND THE INDIVIDUAL: MEDlEV AL AND RENAISSANCE Chairman: Wallace K. Ferguson, University of Western OntariO The Medieval Period Ambrose Rafds, Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies ~------~~---I to 'H , ,. ANNUAL MEETINGl 1967 59 ./. The Renaissance I • _, . Marvin Becker, University of Rochester Conunent: , ' ;" , Elizabetb'A, R. Brown, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York " f .' .., THE MEDlEV AL ISLAMIC CI'IY Chairman: Abraham L. Udovitch, Cornell University The Early Middle Ages JacobLasSner, Wayne State UnIversity " The Later Middle Ages Ira M. Lapidus, University Of California, Berkeley Conunent:' , , ' . Oleg Grabar, University of Micliigliri ' Kenneth A. Luther, Universio/0f Michigan. ; <' .- Joint Session with } The Conference on Peace Research in History THE HISTORIAN IN TIME OF CRISIS ~1 Chairman: Charles A. Barker, The Johns Hopkins University Uses and Abuses of Historic81 Analogies ,,' Arno • Ma er, Princeton Universi I Wearing Two Hats: Historian an Peace Activist I Staughton Lynd, Roosevelt University; " Conunent: , " Roy F. Nichols, University of Pennsylvlihia .} Harold M.lIyman; University',of'Illinois; Urbana ) Carl E. Scfiorske, UniversIty of cBlifornia,' Berkeley I \ RELATIONS, ! ) I, \ " ,rook " J ";c' I, \ \ .J. " . 60 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ... J oint Session with The Canadian Historical Association THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IN THE TWENTIETH CENTIJRY Chairman and Comment: Alexander Brady, University Of Toronto ft ~ A Canadian View A. P. Thornton, University of Toronto " ..I A British View ; E. T. Williams, Rhodes House, Oxford University- ENLIGHTENED DESPOTISM AND THE CRISIS OF SOCIETY IN THE EIGH TEENTH CEN'IURY Chairman: John C •. Rule, Ohio State University Enlightened DespotiSm ana the CrlSlSOfSociety in Germany Helen p. Liebel, University of Alberta. ,. - . . . Thought and Practice of Enllg!1t~~ GC?V~eJit ~ French Corsica Thadd E. Hall, Southern Illiilois University· Spanish Enlightened Reforms ana Reformers George M. Addy, Brigham Young, University Comment: .. .'.. - William E. Wright. UniversitY of Mi.iji:!.esot:a. Association Meetings BUSINESS MEETING OF THE AMERlCANHISI'OruCAL ASSOCIATlON Presiding: Hajo Holborn, Yale University Report of the Executive Secretary Paul L. Ward, American Historical. Association Report Of the Managing Editor Henry R. Winkier, American Historical Review Report of the Treasurer Elmer Louis. KayseI:•. George Washington University DeCISions Of the CounCil Other Business .. GENERAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ffiSToRICAL ASSOCIATION AND THE CANADIAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Presiding: Paul L. WartirAtn'erl/:arlHistoriCal Association Words of Welcome;to M~E!fs iiDd l)~l;Itinguis4ed Guests J. M. S. Careless, University of Toronto Award Of Prizes George Louis Beer Pr~e .. . . Presentation by: Hajo Holborn, Yale University Albert B. Corey Prize Presentation by:. 1. M. S. Careless and Hajo Holborn Presidential Addre.sS!.: "The History of Ideas" Hajo Holliol-n, Yale University . " ! ~ ".1; ;. " ANNUALMEETlNG,1967 61 ~ SATURDAY, 30 DECEMBER Morning Sessions b /' PSYCHOLOGY AND HISTORY .W' Chairman: William L. Langer, Harvard University Rome: A PsychoanaIytic Interpretation .t '" Norman Brown, University of Rochester Comment: Gilbert Bagnani, Trent University D. O. Hebb, McGill University THE ORIGlNS OF WAR Chairman: S. F. Wise, Canadian Force Headquarters Peloponnesian War .' , Michael H. jameson. University of Pennsylvania ( Hundred Years War M. R. Powicke, University of Toronto World War I . " ," , Laurence Lafore, UniversitY of Iowa . Comment: . Richard A. Preston, Duke University \ i )- t joint Session with . \ 1 The History of Science Society SCIENCE AND POUTICAL IDEOLOGY. " ' . ?, Chairman: H~WOOlf, The johns Hopkins University r' Scientific Elitism Political Demoqracy1t!R~9lt,ltiO~ary France Roger Hahn, UniversiROf CaliforriiQi B£!i"lcel.ey .; . . . The Russian Anarclil$,f.Cr tiqueOf Science'.' ,. '.',' ' George L. Kline, Bryn Mawr College' .', , ., Science and the Chinese Revolutionaries, 19B0",1930 ( Daniel W. Y. Kwo14tJniVersity Of Hawiill ' Comment: ,. Frank E. Manuel, New York UniVer~iti \ Ralph G. Croitier, University Of Rocliester , " joirit Session with (J The Conference on Slavic and East EUropean History THE IMPACT OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION ON EAST CENTRAL EUROPE, "! 1917-1920 Chai!'lDl:!Il: Stanley Z. Pech', University of British Columbia CzechoslovaIda" " F.' ' ' .. '.. , ' .' '.., .. , ~( <. josef Anderle, University of North Carolina atChapei Hill jugoslaVla Ivan Avakumovic, University of British Columbia :I Rumania H Keith Hitchins, University of Illinois, Urbana :.!~ -, ";,1 ) Comment: r Istvan A. Deak, ·Columbia University ...... ! ':, " ,'111< 62 AMERIC~ HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 4' URBANISM IN CHINA Chairman and Comment: Arthur F. Wright, Yale University Nanking in the Fourteenth Century Frederick W. Mote, Princeton University ~, K' ai-feng in the Sung Period " r Edward A. Kracke, Jr., University of Chicago i' " .." ENGUSH LEGAL HISTORY ,; '. . Chairman: S. E. Thorne, Harvard University The Protection of SeISin in the Fo~~th Century Donald W. Sutherland, University of Iowa Early Tudor Control in Economics an Joint Sessioq. with The American studies AsSOCiation PERRY ~lILLER'AND THENE*ENGLAND MIND , , Chairman: Clifford K. Shipton, Harvard University The Puritans versus John Calvin· " David D. Hall, Yale. University , The River Gods: Mr. Stoddard'l;l YalJ,ey.16SO-1730. Paul Lucas, Indiana UniverSity , Vision Become a Book: The N~!i Eq.gland Mind ohn F. H. New, Kin s ColI e, Londo and Uroversi of California ,anta Bar ara Comment: Stephen Foster, Northern,Illinois Univ.ersity Alan Heimert, Hanrard Univer.sity . , , . Sesl?ioq. ~ponsored by" ',' The Jomt.Commitieeof die American HistorICal Associacloi! IU}d the C;1jDaCti~ HiswricalAssociation . NATIONALISM, CANADIAN AND AMERICAN , ' Chairman: C. p. Stacey, University of Toronto The First Century of the United StateS, 1776;"1876 G. M, Craig, University of Toronto '------.~-- .. "-.---- ~ " , . ,. }- ~ " .. . '.' ANNUAL MEETING, 1967 63 .1 The First Century of the Dominion of Canada, 1867-1967 Margaret E. Prang, University of British Columbia .. Comment: Russel B. Nye, Michigan State University ij ( ;I ,'" COMMERCIAL POLICY, NATIONAL INTEREST, AND WORLD PEACE , Chairman: Sydney H. Zebel, Rptgers University at Newark I Gobden .' , .... . { H. Donaldson Jordan, Clark University Hull ," ' .' '_If Richard D. Challener, Princ,eton UniVersity Comment: " . , ..' ., .. !:i } P~ A. Crowl, UniVerSi&of Nebraska oiiVl spriDg, The johnS Hyns Uriiversity ]; ~1 j CLASSICAL EUROPEAN SOCiOLOGY BETWEEN COMMUNITY AND sOCIETY ~" Chairman: H. StUart HUfSes, Harvard University ,.. 1\ Emile Durkheim and Frenc ' . octal"thought ( Leon Apt, Wellesley College ' 1 Tonnes, SoOlbart and the German Tradition t Arthur B. Mitztrlan, University Of ROchester " J Comment: .,. . , Charles Tilly, University of Toronto FAMILY AND FAMILY SOLlDARITY,IN ITALIAN HISTORY Chairman: Robert S, Lopez, Yale University Medieval David J. Herlihy~, University.of Wisconsin Modern .. " . .'. '.' , tames c. pavia, ,Uniyersity of PenIlID'IYania ' omment. ',' " Joseph Lopreato, University of Texas ,I j, ! Luncheon Conferences CONFERENCE ON PEACE: RESE,MCH ~ HlsTPRJ ~ Chairman: F. Hilary Conroy, University Of PennSylvania Another American Dilemma Gunnar Myrdal, Institute for International Economic Studies, University I ofStockholm ' . l r, " THE LABOR HISTORIANS . Chairman: Edward T. James, Radcliffe College t\ Labor and Politics in Britain and America ~7 Kenneth McNaught, UniVersitY of Toronto ~I 334-554 C>-69--6 ------~------...... --.-~...... ----.- \.0 ~ ,', c \c , , . 64 AMERICAN msroRICAL ASSOCIATION .I Afternoon Sessions : The Canadian Historical Association ,,,, " ,1' , .. i' ! #' CANADA IN TIrE. TWENTIETH CEN'IURY ,; Chairman aDciComnlent: Mason WBde, University of Western Ontario An Inside View :auM. S. Careless, University of Toronto An tside VIew " ' '.. . . c Philippe Aubert de la RUe. Centre d'Etudes de Politique Etrangere. Paris NEW DEPARTURES IN INTRODUCTORY'lllSTORYCOuRSES Chairman: ~~h J. Mathews. Emory University The, Histor!!ID ~e'l'( ~ppr9ache,s to HiS.tory In the Schools Richard H. Brown.,.,Afuherst CQlle~lind Newberry Library The Wisconsin LaJJOratory Course in er:ican History William R. Taylor. UniversitY; of Wiscorisin Comnieb.t: . Alati W. Brownsword. U.S. office of Education. HEW Robert D. Cross. President; HUnter College of the City University of New York Joint Session with The Conference on Brit1shStudies BRITISH CONSTITUTIONAL THEORY AND PRACTICE, .1688-:-1800 Chairman: Donald Grove Barnes•. CaSe-Western ReserVe University The Civil List in Eighteenth-Century British Constitutional Controversy: "The Independence Of the Crown';, and "ttie Iiifluence of the Crown" Earl A. Reitan, Illinois State Univ~si.o/ ' ., J oi?t ~~s.sio~withc , ' The American andCanadian,Conimittees for Irish Studies , i l' • -" I -'. - ,0 .~ FENIANISM: TBE CENTENARY, .. ' . " Chairman: ThomaSN.· BroWn. University of Massachusetts. Boston The Place of Fenianism in the Irish Republican Tradition " Hereward Senior. McGill University D' Arcy McGee and the Fenians Robin BUrns. Sir George WilliamS University Comment: Joseph M. Hernon. Jr., Univerflity of Maryland " c'1, 'c ' ANNUAL MEETING, 1967 65 J Joint Session'with , The' Conference on ASi8n HiStory nm'MONOOLS AND MEDIEVAL EUROPE " , ' ,. Chairman and Comment: SiDor, Indiana University . f Dems The MongoIs ana 'Western Europe ,', " i' '" .... '! Alexander V. Riasanovsky; 'Uriiversity of PeImsyi'v8n!a The Mongols and Western Europe " { Jean Richard, Universite' de'Dijon' " t, i j, \ J oint Session with j The Society for Itali!m Historica,l Studi,~s \ LIBERAL STATE AND ITALIAN NAtioN , Chairman: S. William Halperin, NniVersity of Chicago The English Impact oIl'theRisorgiIJ;J,ento. ' John W. Brennan, Long Island Univers~ , ",' ' Sidney SOnnino as Spokesman of a Tory,R calism in the New Italy Benjamin F. Brown, Univer~ity of Kansas "', "', '! Comment: ' '., Duane Koenig, University of Miami i Joint Session with ) The Agricultural History Society i eles A Revisionist Interpretation of the Patrons orHusbancIrY, 18 ~ Dennis S. Nordin, Georgia Southwestern Coll~e The Grange at the Beginning Of Its Second Hundr Years ," I Sister Thomas More, Holy Family College 1 Comment: '~ Stuart Noblin, North Carolina'State University at Raleigh William D. Barns, West Virginia University 'II POLITICAL LEADERSHIP AND STATE FORMATION IN PRECOLONIAL AFRICA Chairman: Robert O. Collins, University of California, Santa Barbara .l Mirambo, War Lord Of Central Tanzania Norman Bennett, Boston University Menelik of Ethiopia ~ Harold G. Marcus, Howard University Moslem Prophets and State Formation in Senegambia Martin A. Klein, University of California, Berkeley Comment: Ralph A. Austen, University of Chicago \ \ t,·" .~~ " .. " . .' 66 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIA nON '" J oint Session with : The History of Education Society ,> RELIGION AND 'lliE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: CANADA AND 'lliE UNITED STATES I" Chairman: Ann M. Kepple, University of Hawaii . . . " • I .'l< ~ Onward Christian Soldiers: Religion in the, Public Schools, 1870~1900 .,If David !yack, University of Illinois, Udiana Roots of Separation . . Howard J. Adams, University of Saskatchewan .. Comment: Clarence Karier, University of Rochester S. D. Clark, University Of Toronto THE MATERIAL FABRIC OF LlFEIN AMERICA Chairman: Melvin Kranzberg, Case-Western Reserve Universi The Post Office Department and Urban Congestion, 1893-1953 CarI H. Scheele, Smithsonian Institution The Evolution of RoOfing Technology in Ameriea, 1493-1860 Charles E. Peterson. Columbia University Comment: , Carl W. Condit, Northwestern University Wayne E. FUller, University Of Texas at EI Paso o· " ," ,"?: . ' .,I The committee 'system oftbe Association' allows for maxiinwil flexibility as to the kinds of cOlicerns and projeetsltcanundertake and the degree of its par .) • >1 t. I, ticipation in th.em. Its s~g committees deal with areas requiring continUing " ~ action and periodical evaluation; iii 1964 tJ:ie As'sociation PFoVided Ii Bcheme for , , f t regillar rotationpf m~#~sr' c?Il standing,c:oriimitt~e~, Pr~e committees are special standing comnuttees which serve to judge entries and to oversee policy in connection with awarding, th~AHA's,prizes, Ad.hoc,C;Qmmittees, whose mem t bers, are not usually rotated. undertake specific short-:terPl'projects or studies. f The Association participates jointly with other organizations in a number of com mittees, It sends delegates to stilt other groups-for instance; where history is f,. one of several disciplines represented. Ad interim appointments are made when " the AHA is invited ,to be represented by local members at special functions and conferences across the country, ' In parentheses following the title of the committee is the year of its establish ment. together with the year of its termination by the Council in those few cases where 'the report appearing here is the committee's final report. The indented A first paragraph describes the committee, Next follows the committee's report i for 1967. Finally, the members for 1968 are listed, The two figures in par,entheses following the names of the 1968 members indicate when their terms expire, e,g" r (69) for a member whose term on the committee will expire 1 January 1969. The ! Executive Secretary is a member ex officio of all but the nominating and prize i committees. but is listed in this section only when he is chairman. 1 j, . ' Nominating Committee .' f The Nominating Comlnittee: unlike other Association committees, is elected by the membership at large, Its responsibility is to make f nominations for the Association's elective positions: the AHA offi •J cers, m:~ers of the GOtinCiliand members of the Nominating \ Committee, ' , I oJ • The Nominating Committee discussed ,at length the current prClposal of the " i Council regarding the oomposition of the Nominating GOmmittee,namely that its e membership shotild be increased to seven, with four member!> being elected in , one year anddmee in alternate years. The Nominating Committee is pleased that ~;, its suggestions with regard to the appropriate size of its membership have been duly considered and that on this issue we are in agreement. "c' ': . " • However, the Nominating Committee continues to hold the view that the con tinuity of experience which we seek and which we consider ,invaluable if I/Dt \ indispensable is not, sUfficientlyinoorporated ,in ,the present, pr0}>9sal of the Council. To know why certain decisionshavebeenmade,t,O,b~ ,th~responsUJility of actions taken, to encourage li'tradition.~ statesmanship" to prqyil:lebalaJ)oe-- \ L ,. I I ) I, 'y- J,J ' ) , '..; 1 ,~:'- t :" 69 \ ,i_ .n. ;. '\/ I, '. 1 ~ ',I I\ ~ -, /. ./ .' 70 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ,/ these are the ends we seek. On occasion in the past the Nominating Committee, because of one circumstance or another, has been forced to act without experience : and, as a result, to make its judgments somewhat haphazardly. . f, TCI strengthen the element.of continuity, the Nominating Committee proposes, therefore, thai the ,meri1bership of seven be elected asfollows: three the first year; tWo the second year; mui two th~ thirdyearwith each member serving a r term ,of three Year's. A three-year term seems to be fully conSistent with the '.' ./ "constitution~ relationSqip" .that ,now exists between the N0mlllating Committee ,I 'I and the Council, ,wh?se members now s~e a terlll of four ye~s. The CoIrimittee alSo has two recommendations to make: First, we recommend that Professor Bryce Lyon be made chairman at the conclusion of the term of the incumbent. Second, we reiterate the recommendation made last year by way of Professor Potter,then'the chairman of· the NOminating Committee, that the opportunity ;be explored of' an award by the, Association (probably not given annually) to men of truly distinguished scholarly achievement. 7 June 1967 Clarence L. Ver Steeg, Chairman, 1967 MEMBERS, 1968 (2-year terms) Bryce -Lyon, Brown University, Chairman (69) Merrill D. Peterson, University of Virginia (69) Lewis W. Spitz, Stanford University (99) Charles F. Delzell, Vanderbilt University (70) Frederick B. Tolles, Swarthmore Colle~e (70) Committee on Committees The Committee on Committees is responsible for drawinguprecom mendations to the Council for individuals to fill vacant positions on all regular Association committees appointed by the C 0 u n c i 1, to " recomtnend changes in the scope of existing committees when nec essary, and to recommend the establishment of new committees when necessary. The list of members for 1968 succeeding each committee 'report represents the report of the Committee on Committees. MEMBERS, 1968 (3-year terms) John M. Blum, Yale University (69) John K. Fairbank, East Asian Research Center, Harvard (ex officio) Elizabeth Foster, BrynfMawr College (70) Elmer Louis Kayser, George Washington Uiliversity (ex offiCiO) James C. Olson, University of Nebraska (69) .. John A. Schutz, University of Southern California (71) Paul L. Ward, American Historical Association, Chairman (ex officio) Robert K. Webb, Editor, American Historical Review (ex officio) C. Vann Woodward, Yale University (ex officio) .",' ," ."1-' , .' COMMITTEES AND DELEGATES 71 .! :.Prizes and Honors As the r~cognized organization for professional and nonprofessional historians '\ I, • ,.. in America, the Association has often been called 1.1pon'to establiSh prizes and ~ " 'If awards in hiSt9ry, and to administer these and other types of honors. ( " Siq!=~ l~ ,~econd annual meeting, when Leopold von Rarike was elected as its " only honorSfY'member in Europe, the Association has awarded 'honOrary member II ships t Gommittee on Honorary Members '(188.5.,.) \ Honorary membership in the American Historical Association is the j highes.t ~onor the Association can extend to a foreign schoThr, and 1 bring!! With it a life subscription to the American HistoricBl Review. It is m~t as a tribute to the contribution mlide by' a diStihgilished schol~ 'to historical scholarship, and a recogniti6IiOfthe need for " ')l better UIiderstanding between countries and s,oc~eties: The Committee on Honorary Members is composed of the five iriuhediatepasipresi- ~ts.· ' At its me.eting on 27 December 1967 the Commi~e:on Honorary Members recommended to the Council that the following four men be mad~,honorary mem 1; bers at the Association: Herbert Butterfield, Univers~ty of Cambridge; Jean Baptiste Duroselle, University of Paris; Sir John Neale,. ,London; p. H. ~ Zaioncbkovskii, Moscow State University. , '. ~ ,\ , i) 27 December 1967 Crane Bl'IPtOI!" ,Chairman, 1967 MEMBERS, 1968 (S-year terms) Julian p. Bo~ The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (69) Carl Bridenbaugh, Brown University (70) Frederic C. Lane, Westminster, Massachusetts (71) ) Roy F. Nichols, University of Pennsylvania (72) Hajo Holborn, Yale University (73) tI ~. ", ~ '" ; " , - . 72 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIAnON ,/ , Ho~orarY Members Leopold von Ranke 1885-1886 William Stubbs ,1899 ... 1901 " , . S,amu,el Rawson Gardiner 1899-1902 r TIlE;OdorMoinrnsen 19GO-H03 ~ " ,# J ames Bryce 1966 ... ~9.22 I Benedetto Croce 1943'-1952 Rafael.Altamii-a , 1944-f951 DpmJpgoAmunategui y Solar , 1944-1946 Pierre Caron 1944-1952 Aage Friis i944-1949 HuShih 1944.'71962 Johan Huizinga" "_ , i944-1945 Albert Freder'ick PoilaI'd i944-i948 Affons,a de' Escragnoile 'Ta.unay 1944;.;1958, GeoFge M. Trevelyan '- 1944-1962 George M, Wrong,' 19:44_1948 Gaetano De SariEtis , 1945-1957 -·~!i:-tG.eorge .I!eBb04y' Gooch 1945 Halvdan Koht - . 1945-1965, sir Frederick M. PowiCke i945-f9~3' , Vicente Lecuna 1947-1954 FldedriCh Mclrlecke 1947-1954 PierreRenouvm .. ~9'f7 AlfopsQopscq -, " , 1949-1953 Sir Charles Kmgsley Webster 1949-1961 J ~dunath Sarkar 1952-1958 Franz Schnabel 1952 CJo~tantine it. "Zurayk 1952 Georges Lefebvre 1953-1959 " f~~i;~o Chiiliod, 1955-1960 , Pleta- dey1 , 1957 . P:uacLKoprWu j • 1958. ' SirLeWls Naihler i958-1960 - sil:viQZaval-a n: .. 1958 Gerhard {Utter .', . i959 Francois L. Ganshof 1960 sfr K~ith Hancock 1960 S!\ukichi Tsuda 1960-1961 Edouard Perroy , f961 ", Sci Wada ' 1963-1966 Mario Toscano 1963-i965 Delio Gailtirrtoti 1963 ' Sir Winston Churchill 1963 Arnaldo MOmigliano 1963 Roland Mousnier 1963-1965 Sir Roruild Syme . i' 1963 ' Mikhail N, Tikhomirov 1964 Pyong-do Yi 1965 Sir George N. Clark 1965 Jacques L. Godecbot - 1966 Yasaka Takagi 1966 ' Fernand Braudel i966 " ~. ~ -:. ". ',-OCt _ COMMITTEES AND DELEGATES I 73 .,I Sir DeniS BrOgan' 1966 ' Claude Cahen 1967 Ric:har.d VI. S~uFi;t~¥ ,1967 Herbert Butterfield 1967 J. B. ~osefie 1967 ~ ; ,- r Sir JohnN~e 1967 " P. H. Zaiqnchkovskii 1Q67 " '" "" . , , J CoIfunitteeon,:Priz~s and Awards'(19'66-i967) I t I ' l., .: The Council in December 1966. establisbedthe ad,hoc Committee on Priz~E1~ ancJ.Aw~.$ to review ihe,ABsoc~tion-s existing prizes and a~~ds,.and cons19er; new types of honors or prizes which the ABsa " I ci8.don 1l\ight ,ll'flard. The ConunJttee was discharged in March 1967 ¥ter submitting its final report to the AHA Coqncil. f) The' " BeVeridge PriZe, Coinmittee's . r:ecomhie!)da,tion' to, raisEi!, ',We amoUJ?t, of ! I i~ aimua1:~ize was considered.¥ i~ was a~e¥tI?-(lfthl'\~9UP~Bhouldbe increasEld if available funds petm1tteci; The Committee sugg~stea t¥tperhaps ~, were the' 'Beveridge Prize to be awarded' (or distiniWBht~:r-1JOok~. th,e Du$ifug , be 11 Prize Ihlgnf 'awBFded by ttu~,,~am~ committee ,for ~rksbyyoul1ger ~c1iOlars. t; ThesesUggestlons of cours~. w6~ ~~#discussion ~$p:r;oV~bY,the Coup.cil. I The Co~~ee .. voted to recoJJ¥Il~ th!lt tli~ ,:J..itl1.~ti;in~r~~6ld PJ;"ize be 1 discontinued. 'J.'here}vas sqJD~ discus;sJ6n, withCi'!.t a}~ J;-ec,C?~~,iichltiOJl. Of the possibility Of, foiIibining ~e ~9ams and I:3.Fff, priZ~s. ,~ , " ,,"'L ' The Committee urged that tw9 subfl~ti81pr~es ,siiptildqe estahliSlled. to t be awarded' every five years. one 'in: the History'of tlie Western H~hetEl;, ahd one in the History of $e Res~ gf.WJUYO!='Jd. fOJ;"a wor~ in.~eEngliSb,lapgiiage. by a, scholat: re@ieht in' the {,Jtli~~ Sti.!f~S,'" "';,, ' ~" ' ';,' , II The' CoIIiInj~~e f¢1:h,~ tecotm,n~~! ~ '$~ qilunci'\$attl* fo~o\VUlg ~6~ I, ~onsiz or guid~, lili:es, be'PIaCedOIla9c:eptatif~()f f;U¢s In, fu~e for, El~~lishm~t I o pr es: ," I -", ] " " ,- 1, An endowment of at least $15,000. or. in special cases, a guarantee of f $500 a year for five years; ,_ . .'J. 2. A specified field no narrower. in tertns of present or expected scholarly ~ research and publication. than is incU<;,ated by the Associatioo's existing prizes; 1 and ! 'i 3, A provision tha'tafter twelve years theCouricUm~y alter the terms ,of the award with reference to new circumstances, so long as they remain substantially in keeping with the original purpose,s. t , . , December 1967 Caroline Robbins. Chairman. 1967 ( ) I tL-...... _,--~-..--..--.,--~ t~ " ';, ' .',- ~ 74 COMMIITEESAND DELEGATES j Commi~ee on the Harmsworth Professorship (1954 -) The Hilrmsworth Professorship at the University of Oxford, England, was endowed by Lord Rothermere in memory of his son, who was 2. That the list of approved candidates be sertt to the Oxford Selection Com mittee no later than mid-October of each year. 3. That the Oxford qQnpni~ee consider the proposed candidates and accept thein or sugg~st substitutes by ini~";November. 4. That' invitations be sent to prospective Harmsworth Professors i in De cember. The shift of initiative to the AHA Committee is justified by that committee's greater familiarity with historic!il work in the United States. Proposed time schedules are justified by the necessity of arranging such details as leaves of absence, housing, transportation and the natural sloth of all committees. These proposals were received by the AHA Council and the Council asked that the Executive Secretary consult with the Board of Electors at Oxford on his ~ " .... ,t ~.' \' - --~ " . AMERICAN HISToRICAL ASSocIATI0N 75 j trip to) England, to see how ,the Boafd would receiv;e suggestions for changes in proceduI'e" ' , ' " ; ;', II 1 " " ,. 1 ~ : il' ,'.:. I q, Frank Vandiver. Chairrpan. 1967 / ," MEMBERS. 1968 " "" Raja Holborn,Yale'Umvex:sity ~69), Allan Nevins,\Huntfngton,L;ibrary (69) Bell 1. Wiley, EmoryUniversity,Chairman (70) John K, Fairbank, East Asian Research Center (70) Harry T, Williams, Louisiana State University (71) Prizes and Awards for 1968, . / ,-;{":"(,' )') ~~"Am,~lcan ,Hl;s.tor,\cal AssbcjatiOIJ fiIJbnsois thetEtJlpr~e'samt '~viaras ~teg, ¥,Ioj,i;~Our, Qf WJ:!lch ar,e ati,e tQ:be gi v enm ~968" All awards are announced at the AssoCia,~9n,',~ apnulU m,~phg, ~~?t will take place this year at the Conrad Hilton Hotel tnCirlcago"Fur ,th~J~etail~tregardirlg rules for th~ various,a,~ards may be ob~ed , h¥ ~dress~ the cOIilinittj:iec,luilijnen dir~t1y, " ",' , •• ~ J . • ~ 1 : • " _ , - ,,~.' T , • _, , _ '_ 1 > HERBERT BAXTER AbAMs PRIZE. The AaanlBPrize is Ilwatae'cl'in the eVen , nunw&ect y~s' fOr ,~.I!}?bOgJ,-aPb, in nim;t~cript or'ip PriIit (f~st' orsecoIid book) in. the field ',of, EJJI'pp~ liistOryaIid,.Carries ,a Sash awarcl of $309. The 1~66 award went to Dr. Gabriel Jackson, UIiivers,ity :w q~o~~ LaJ6llti, for l,$ i book The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, '1931-1939,"Princeton University Press (1965), TROYER STEELE ANDERSON PRIZE. This Prize is awarded every,ten years I begihhing ,in 1:970 to' the ,person whom the'CoWiciliof, the Association considers to' have Illa'de the mostoJit;st!!!tcl!ng £ontrilfutit;ln tc) the advancement of the purposes of the Association d~iDg the preceding ten years. ! ~ 1 .. : ", GEORGE LOUIS BEER PRIZE. The Beer Prize is awarded annually for the best work by a young scholar (first or second book) in manuscript or in print on Euro pean international history since 1895, and carries a cash award of $300. In 1967 the Be~Pr~e w,lU!, ~:warcled join~y, to Geot:gljl A. er~~ly, Yniver~ity of Notre Dame, for The V6lWiteer Army and the' Rev 01 u'ti 0 Ii in South Russia and Robert Wohl, Stanford University, for French Communism in the Making. The Beer Prize will not be given in 1968. ALBERT J. BEVERiooE A WARD. The BeVeridge PriZe is awarded annually for II the best book ,in English' or American history (history of the United States, Canada, and Latin America), BIld carries a caSh value Of $5000. The Beveridge \ Award was not given in 1967 betatiSe of revisiOns Which were under consideration concerning the conditiOns of the Award,c f ALBERT B. COREY PRIZE IN CANADIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS. The Gorey Prize was awarded for the first time, in 1967, to Gustave Lanctot, University of Ottawa (emeritus). for Canada and the AmeiicanRevoIiltion. The Corey Prize is l to be awarded in the Odd';'ntiInbered years for the best book on the history of Canadian-United States relations, or on the history of both countries, and is awarded jointly by the Canadian Historical Association and the American Histori I cal Association. ~l L---~- ,~> '" , ' , ''Ii'~ 1''' 76 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ,./ JOFlNHfDlJNNINGPRIZE. The Dunning Prize is awarded in the ~~n-nuniliered years for a monograph in manuscript or in print on any subject relating to Ameri : can history, and carries a cash award of $300. The last award went to Dr. john WpIard Shy, Princeton University, for his book Toward Lexington: The Role of ~ the BritiSh Army'jrt the Coming of the American Revolution, publiShed by the I" '.' Princeton University Press. , "," i' .,; I CLARENCE H. HARING PRIZE. The Haring Prize is awarded every five years to that Latin American who, in the opinion of the Committee, has published the most outstanding book in Latin American history during the preceding five y~s. The prize will next be awarded in 1971 and carries a cash award of $500. The 1966 award went to Licenciado' Daniel Cosio Villegas for 'his work Historia Modema de MexiCO. LITTETON-GRISWOLD PRIZE IN LEGAL HISTORY. The Littleton-Griswold Prize is awarded in the'even-il1mthered years for the best published work in the history of the, American cq10nies. aIid of the United Stat~ to 1900, and carries a cash award ,qf $500. The last award went to Mi-; flliIer B. 'Zobel, an attorney in Boston, ,arid W.',L. Kinvin wroth, University of Maine Law School, as co-editors of The Legal Papers of john Adams.' " ' ROBERT'LIVINGSTON SdfuYLER PRIZE. The Schuyler Prize is awarded every five years by the Tara1ai1ith' bas Foundation for the best work in the field of M94ern Britis~, BritishImperi~, and British C;opunonwealth history by an AIneri~ane ~itizen, ,cuii;l c:arri~s i c~Jl, 9.y,'ard,of $100. It will next be awarded in 197i.1h~ J9,P9,~y.rard, '!Vent to [)f,,'PlilliPD. 'C:;Urti!l, qriiversity of Wisconsin, f~r ~is pook, The, Im~e.of,Africa:: ' Britisb'Ideas and Action, 1780-1850, published by ,the,lJ~v~~ity~r~iBconsiIii ~ress: ",,',' ." WATUMULL PRIZE. The Watumull Prize is awarded in the even-numbered years for the best'wotkon the history of India originally published in the United S~tes, and carries a cash award. of $500. The 1966 award went to Dr. B. R. Nayar, McGill Univ,ersity,for his book Minority Politics in the, Punjab, and to Dr. Thomas Metcalf, University of California, Berkeley, for his bookThe Aftermath of Revolt. Both books were published by the Princeton University Press. " committee on the lIerbe,rt BaXt,er Adams Prize (1903-) The prize was established in memory of the first secretary of the Association, Professor H~bert Baxter Adams,of-johns Hopkins University, who was also one of, the Association's founders. The Adams Prize is a war de d in the even-numberedy,ears for a mono- , graph in manuscrip,t or in print ,(first or second book) in, the field of European history, and carries a cash award of $300. MEMBERS, 1968 (4-year terms) joel G. Colton. Duke UniverSity (69) Felix Gilbert, Institute for Advanced Study, Chair.man (69) Hanna H. Gray, University of Chicago (72) ~ "/-,' , . , 3 .,.",' . " > ' COMMI'ITEES AND DELEGATES 77 .J Committee on the 'George Louis Beer Prize (1920-) The prize was established in accordance with the terms of a bequest by George Louis Beer (d •. 1920), historian of the British colonial sys , ~ Cit tem before 1765. It is awarded annuall.YJor the best work by,a young . t .. ~ fl,L scholar (ffrst or second book ip. English, not to exceed SO,OOO words) ,I , ,.I ''in manuscript or in print, on European international history since .' 1895, and carries a cash award of ~300., The George Louis Beer Prize for 1967 was awarded jointly to George A. Brinkley, University of Notre Dame; for The Volunteer Army and the Revolution inSouth"Russia and RobertWohl,Stanford University, for. French Communism in theM~. .. Piotr; Wandycz, Chairman, 1967 "." Committee on the·Albert J. B~veridge Award.(1927-) The Albert J. Beveridge Furid'of $100,000 was established as a memorial to Senator' Beveridge (d. 1927) by his wife Catherine" and a large group of his friends in Indiana~ Senator Beveridge.devoted his later life to historical res ear chand writing. The income from this fund affords an annual award of $5000. The Beveridge Prize is awarded for the best book in English on the history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada from '1492 to the present. The Beveridge Prize Committee' made a' decision early in the year to re examine its procedures in the light of criticisms and dissatisfaction'voiced by the Committee over the past three years. It is felt that the Prize is attracting too few first-rate manuscripts, and that, 'as the largest prize -offered by the Asso ciation, it shotild cOIIiinand greater respect and attention than it does at present. The result of our deliberations is a recommendation to the Committee on Prizes ", and AWards to change the Beveridge Prize competition from a manuscript to a published-boOK competition and to. redefine,som~what' more sharply than before, the character of the historical writing the Prize Committee seeks to stimulate with its award. • " In our cOllsideratioliof why the tilatlusCriptprize reCeived solfttleattention, we found that there were both procedural and substantive reasons. Theprocedural rellulting . W lQng d~~ys In. J;l1aking a decision, thus tying up several potentially publishable nianuscr1PtS for neatly a year in the process of seleetingone prize manuscript-could be remedied. This we learned by studying the procedures, of the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize Committee 'ot·the'Organization of Americian Historians. But the COSt W 9o~l,tteeti1;ne to follo~ their J;lro.cedures would be excessive, and the change 'would, ,in the final analysis, dE7Pend'.\lPonfinding an historian-chairman able and willing to .take on a major administrative task over a long period of time. . . , , .' \ .• '. , The substantial reasons, however, were even mote important' in shaping our final recommendation that the prize be changed to'a book award. The essence of those reasons is that, in the years since the prize was established, the eco nomics and the conditions of scholarly publication have changed drastically. In [6i our opinion, the demand for good manuscripts on the part of university and trade publishers now is far greater than the supply. As a result, in our opinion, any good manuscript, and many bad ones, can find publication without subsidy and "l"', , . , , '. 78 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ,/ without, the .certification of a.committee such as, .ours. In short, the Committee has not only been performing itSfurictionbadly (because of its faultyproeedures), it has also been performing an unnecessary function. On the other hand, the -Corrtmittee feels that the.Beveridge Prize could serve ,) , a necessary and .valuable function by recogniZing,. y.'ith substantialpublj.city and I' a considerably more substantial prize than at present, the 'one book each year by n: an American historian dealing with any subject (or perhaps, still restricted to the ./ Americas) which appears to be, a significant re-examination of a significant , " period or problem. Preferably that work should, use new tOllls and concepts, regardless of their disciplinary origin, in that re-examination. The prize book, in short, should be one which,. because of both its 'substance, its methodology, and its procedural breakthroughs Will produce a new cutting· edge which will encourage other historians to take a new .look at their"periods or subjects and at their concepts and methods. . The Committee recognizes that in turning to published works by American historians on the history of North or South America it is casting a far wider net and that there will be many more fish to examine in order to award the prize than was the case before. However, if the definition is sharp enough, if the competiti.on is restricted to first or second books (as we believe it should be), and if the pro cedures are well worked out in ad.vance, the task of the Committee should be easier and;the},'esult[> more rewarding than at pre~ent. The following changes 'in procedure are recommended: 1. Enlarge the Committee so as to cover the major fields of American history more adequately than at present (we often ha.ve had to seek readers outside our fields of specialty in order to satisfy ourselves that we were making a valid judgment). 2. Increase the length of serviee on the Committee to five years, staggered as now, with the chairman having at ,least three years to serve. 3. Make the prize retroactive, i.e., the prize awarded in 1968 would be for a 1967 book. 4. Circularize all publishers, trade as well as university, and all departments of histo~y· at major universities for nominations at least twice each year . ., ", 5. Require that publishers provide three copies of eachbooksub~tted for the prize,(or, if not submitted, purchase three copies fo~ distr~tion). r' .... 6. Give the chairman authority to eliminate any book (upon notic,e to the Com mittee and subject to their v~to) th~U~q.o~ ~ his 9P!ill0n a ,cafi\ll~att:!. December 1967 Lawr¢p.cew. J;owoer,chairman, 1967 MEMBERS, 1968 (3-year terms) Eric E. Lamp¥,d. Univer::lity ~ Wis!=09,sin.¢hairmim (69) David p. Van Tassel, University Of T_~s (69)' . ' Jack P. Greene. Johns Hopkiris University'(70) , Ramon Edwardo R$. Smith Coll~ge (71) J. Harvey Young. Emory University (71) ' . "~). '. ;' -.. ' l' , :~ " . \ " ".. f " { . ,1 I , COMMITIEES AND DELEGATES 79 ~ Albert B. Corey Prize in Canadian-American Relations The CouncilS of the American Historical Association and the Canadian His torical Association apprOved 'tlie' establiShment of the prize in December 1963, to be 'awarded bienniill,y 1:lythe Joint Corrlmittee of the two associations. The ; . '.t prize is a memorial to Albert B. Corey (1898-1963), ellie-time chairman of the \ American Section of i:h'e Joint Cominittee, who first proposed such an award to i' ."" ,. "'. encourage study of Canadian-American relations. The Corey Prize is awarded ! for the best published book or book-length manuscript submitted which deals with the history of Canadian.... American relalions or the history of both countries. ,. The prize was first awarded in 1967 to Gustave Lanctot, Univeristy of Ottawa, <, for' Canada and the American Revolution. The amount of th~rize was fixed by the JOlnt -Committee at $1000. (See the--report of the Joint Committee of the Canadian Historical Association and the American Historical Association, page .' 100.) . Committee on the John H. Dunning Prize (1927-) The Dunning prize was established by a bequest ,£rom Miss Mathilde Dunning -!n memory of her father, John H. Pll!lI)iJ;tg, historian and I 'I, father of William A;.lJunr$g; who was ~President in 1913. The pl'iz~ is B;warded in the ev~n-:p,umbered years for a monograph in \ manusc:r:4!t ,o,r in print on any subject relating to,Arperican history, J and carries a: cash award of $300. ,j MEMBERS, 1968 (4-year terms) Wesley Frank Craven, Princeton University, Chairman (69) Norman A. Gra.epner, University of Virginia (70) Holman Hamilton,. Univers!ty of Kentucky (71). I" <' Commutee on'the Clarence H. H~ring Pri~e (19,63-) 1, " \ At its meeting" iil December 1963, 'the Council of the Association established the Clarence H; Haring Priz'ewitli funds raised by a , \ volUntary coiruhlttee of friends of Professor JClarence H. Haring. I It is awarded every five years to that Latin American who, in the opinion of the cO'mmifiee;has publiShed the most outstanding book in .j Latin American history during the preceding five years. The prize carries a cash aw~d.of $500, and will next be awarded in 1971. '< i MEMBERS, 1968 (S-year terms) \ \ Robert Burr, University of California at Los Angeles (72) RichardMorse, Ylile UniversitY (72). J. H. Parry, Harvard University, Chairman (72) i . '.! ~, 334-554 0-69-7 ~--~.-'"~ ~~--~--.------"----. : ~ ',.. ~ f ; 80 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOClA TION ./ Committee on the Litileton-Griswold, Fund~ (1927-)~ , ,-- : The Li~eton-Griswold Fund was ~stablished by Alice Griswold in memory of her father, Willl~ E. Littleton, anci of her husband, '. Frank T. Griswold, for the p~omotiQn of research in Am~ican r ... history. The income from this fund is chiefly applied to the publi ,,!' cation of documentary material relative to' tije legal history of the " United States in the colonial period. The composition of the Committee during 1967 was as follows: Joseph H. ," Smith, Columbia University Schqol of Law, New York. N.Y., Chairman (1970); David J. Mays, Attorney at Law, Richmond, Virginia (1968); John J. Biggs, Jr., United Stat~s Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Wilmington, Delaware (1969); Alfred Kelly, Wayne State University,D~troit, Michigan (1971); Paul L.Murphy, University of Mtimesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota (1972); Gerald Gunther, Stanford University School of Law, Stanford, California (1973). The dates inserted in parentheses above indicate expiration of terms of the individual members, as of 1 January of the res.pecgve years. On February 8th Barnaby C. Keeney, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, announced a grant to the American Historical Association of $10,000 in support of a project to compile material from the court records of certain American colonies for the period 1720-1765 centering around a unifying theme, that of individual freedom under law; This grant was made on the basis of an application filed by Paul L.Ward, Executive Secretary of the Association in May 1966 on the· iIiitiat1ve of the Coinfuittee; The grant was made on a SO-SO matching basis, with the Committee to contribute tiP' to $10,000 for publication costs. The volume will constitute one of the American Legal Records series. Work on the above project under the direction of Neal W. Allen, Jr., Professor of History, Union College, Schenectady, N.Y •• commenced with the hiring of five law students who worked duririg the sUIilmerohrelarant manuscript court records in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vi.igini~, Marylandimd;SouthCarollna. Much mate rial was assembled but Professor Allen and Mr. Ward decided that it would be desirable to make application for a renewal grant in the amount of $6,400 to pro vide for further research in 1968. Such application. ",as filed in November. No futther volUIiles Pl' the Amer'icaftbeg'alRecords series were published in 1967. Correspondence with Susie M. Ames concerning the possibility of the Com " mittee' spublishing a Wrth~. Y9~Ullle. of Apc:om~ck-Northampton (Va.) County Court records covering the period164Q-45, r~sqlted in an understanding that she would submit a transcript of $~ recoFds 8J1.d a PFIlpOSed histor~c\l,l introduction to the Chairman in 1968. Appended is a financial I?~!em,~t sh9~, th.~ st!l.twl of the fund, ., . t 31 December 1967 Joseph H. Smith, Chairman, 1967 MEMBERS, 1968 (6-year terms) John J. Biggs, Jr., U,S. Court of Appeals for tl!e Tl;1irdCircuit, Wilmington, Delaware (69) , .. , , Joseph H. Smith, Columbia University Law School, Chairman (70) Alfred Kelly, Wayne State University (71) Paul Murphy, University of Minnesota (72) Gerald Gunther, Stanford University Law School (73) Michael Kammen, Cornell University (74) .j ~, ~ , .. COMMIITEES AND DELEGATES 81 .;i ~ LITILETON-GRISWOlD FUND : Statement of Receipts and Disburaements 98 of 31 August 1%7 Receipts Disbursements d Caah Balance aa of 9/1/66 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••.•.•• 12,684.40 j'. • Uninvested cash ••••••• _...... 347.25 r Interest- Savings AccO\.Ult ...... cO 515.03 ,I Investment Inoom.e ...... 1,225.00 .;i Sale of Court Records •••••••••••••••••••.••••••••••••••••••••• 195.90 Uttleton-Griswold Prizes ...... 500.00 Investlnent ...... 35,000.00 Balance 31 August 1967 ...... , ...... 49,467.58 #9,967.58 #9,967.58 .. Committee on the Robert Livingston Schuyler Prize (1950-) The Robert Livingston Schuyler Prize was established by the Taraknath Das Foundation to oeawardedeveryfiveyears for the best J ). work in the field of Modern British, British Imperial, and British Commonwealth history by an American' Citizen, and carries a cash award of $100. Professor Schuyler, of Columbia University, served as AHA President in1951. The next Schuyler Prize will be awarded in 1971. MEMBERS, 1968 (5.-year terms) Willson H. Coates, University of Rochester, Chairman (72) Philip Curtin, University. of Wisconsin (72) Philip p. Poirier, Ohio SJate University (72) David Spring,. Johns Hopkins university (72) Sylvia Thrupp, UniversitY..of., Michigan (72) I .. I J Committee on the Watumull Prize (1944-) The Warumull P~ize was establishegin 19,44 by the Wa,rum1,lll I:'.ounda tion, whose purpose is to promo~~ b.etter UIldeJ:'standingbetween the United States.. and India. This $500. p.rlze . isawardeq in tI;le ev,en: ( numbered years for the best bOQk originally published.in the United ! States on any phase of the 1!isto!='y of IIlClia. MEMBERS, 1968 (4-year terms). B. K. Gupta, Brooklyn College (69) Norman Palmer, University of,PEmnsylvania (69) , Ainslie T. Embree, Columbia University, Chairman. (70) .. '. • I I , AMERICAN HISToRICAL ASSOCIATION TEACHING AND THE CURRICULUM Since its beginnings the American Historical Association has been interested in the teaching of history in the United States. Committees of the Association have published more than twenty volumes of reports on the organization and content of history courses and the value of history in American education. At present the Association has thre~ standing committees concerned with ways to improve the quality of history teaching. one for the pre-college level and one for the university level. The Committee on Ph.D. Programs in History has worked out standards for evaluating graduate programs in history. The Service Center for Teachers of History prepares and publishes a series of pamphlets (now over 70 in number) and sponsors some two dozen conferences each year. It operates under the aegis of the Service Cep.ter Cominittee on Teach-. ing and with the editorial advice of a specially created board of the Association. The Professional Register provides a placement service for the historical profession. ' Service Center Committee on Teaching (1954-) The Service Center Committee on Teaching was appointed in 1954 and with Ford Foundation help eatabliShed a Service Center for Teachers of History to provide teaching aids, pamphlets, and bibli ographical materials, arrange conferences and discussions, and otherwise assist teachers and administrators. Since 1956 these " Service Center activities have helped to bring together history teachers at the pre-college level with college, university, and re search historians. The Center's objectives are to improve the status and quality of history in the schools, to expose the several parties in the profession to each other's needs and contributions, to mvolve the hiStorian outside the schools, and to assist the teacher of history 'at the secondary schoolle'iel. In 1965 the Council estab lished an editorial advisory bOard to read manuscripts submitted for the pamphlet seriea' and weigh thelr value to secondary school teachers of history and the social studies. The Committee met on 25 February and on 3-4 November 1967. Gratified that sales of the Service Center pamphlets have passed the million mark, the Com mittee approved future pamphlet titles on the history of education, banking in America, and on Reconstruction after the Civil War. Two Committee members, Donald Cole and Thomas' PreS'sly, have written' a new version of the pamphlet entitled Preparation of Secondary-School History Teachers, which will be pub lished early in 1968. It will be sentby the Service Center to members of state and '. 82 0":" , ~~ c w ' COMMITIEES AND DELEGATES 83 ./, local boards of education, to agenci~ that certify teachers, to school admin istrators, and to those responsible for teacher preparation programs in colleges and universities. Responses to a questionnaire on the Service Center pamphlet order forms received during the summer and early fall of 1~67 indicate that over half of the purchasers during this period were taking graduate courses; many of r these same persons are also teaching in .junior and senior high schools, for a .. little more than half of the respondents do teach in the schools, grades 7-12. The t,. .# committee continues to seek ways to make the pamplets known to school teachers who are not now, or who ne,yer have beeQ enrolled as his,tory students. More over, while the Committee iscontinuing'ti:> sponsor a Illriited number of pamphlet titles that stress the recent historiography of various fields, it also is exploring l new directions for the pamphlets, which will try to meet some of the needs of seCondary; teachers in difficult teaching and learning situations, particularly in inner:. city schools: Messrs., Frank "Freid,el, Herlry DreWry, and Jim Pearson constitute a sub-COmmittee to'make initial recommendations forthis effort. I The'Committee realizes that beyond its sponsorshipofctirrent Service Center 'l activities,' which emphasize the pamphlet· publications and the successfully con tinuing program of conferences betWeen school and college teachers of history, I it must,seek other ways in whichthe'Association can serve schObI teachers at a , time ,when 'history is threatened With the loss of its identity as a unique school subject ,and intellectual field through submersion within some of the recent social I studies curricula. A first and necessary step, the 80mmittee agrees, to help teachers to discriminate -among the ,many available teaching materials, is the t eS.tablishment of a critical,journal for the review and assessment of all kinds of I secondary teaching materials in history. Throughout the country there isa call from 's,cho~l te&chers for such a journal, v.hich 'Would appraise books or films or other teaching aids frpm the poin~ of view of theclassroom teacher and the academic historian. The Committee therefore recommends to the Council that the Exe.cutiveSecr,etary be supported fully in his efforts to solicit initial funds for such a journa1~ We are joined in this recommendati9n by the School History Proj ects Board which would sponsor the proposed journal, and whose parent organi zations'arethe AHA, the Organization 9f Anlerican,Historians, and the National Council for t1;Ie Social Studies. Mr. Pressly of this c,ommittee is also a member of the organizing committee of the School History ProjE!j::ts Board., In ord.er to find other ways in which the Committee and the Service Center I can.be ofaasistanc:e to school history teachers, the Committee has voted to form at least one small. ,in:{ormal, l'egional liaison group, composed of interested " J school teachers, college professors, and educational offiCerS.' Such a group will ,1 enable the ServiCE! Center to pursue its work s omewhatmore extensively in a given region and to judge the results. As the Committee reappraises its own work in this time of curricular challenges and r,evisions, it believes that the Association is fortunate in having an Executive Secretary who is working" among. his other duties,'for the improvement of history teaching in the schools. It is, after all, from the schools that college teachers of history receive their students and, eventually, their professional colleagues. 11 December 1967 Wilson Smith, Chairman, 1967 MEMBERS, 1968 (S-year terms) ; Wilson Smith, University of California at Davis, Chairman (69) Nelda Davis, Prince George's County Schools (71) Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Washington, D.C. (71) , ' j Thomas Pressly, University of Washington (71) Donald Cole, Phillips Exeter Academy (72) . i ,I J~' I" ~ . d' .'. "I 84 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION J Henry Drewry, Princeton High School (72) ., Louis Harlan, University of Maryland (72) Paul S, Holbo, Universfty of Oregon (72) Edwin T, Fenton, Carn~e-Mellon University (73) it ; ~'I< Joyce Fulton, Woodside High School (73) r ,f Jack P, Greene, Johns Hopkins University (73) " ,,; '" ,I The Film-Criteria Project " With, th,ElenColWagement.of the Association's Committee on Teacb1ng, the .AHA undertook· , the gevelopmentof Ii project on 'the use of films in the history class room, Offiq.ally entitled "l'be Identification of Criteria for the Effective Use of Films in Teaching History in the Classroom, in a Variety of Teacb1ng Sittlations, Grades 7~12," t:his.project was fundedforayear's duration, April 1 967-April 1968 by the U~ted States Office of .Education, in the amount of $4890, The first phase of t4e project was undertaken at a four-day working conference held at Indiana University, 6-9 April 1967, The conference included fifteen participants: six college and university historians, three master teachers from the sch!)ols who had successfully used films and audio-visual materials in their classes, two educational media specialists, one educational psycholOgist, one historian from the United States Office of Education, and two AHA staff members, The working conference developed certain basic guidelines for the assessment of criteria, and two of the, conferees (Dean Albertson of the University of Massa chusetts and John Dahl (formerly of Edfua-Morningside High School, Edina, Minnesota) of the University of Illinois) were charged'with the responsibility of preparing a conference report and of drafting a manuscript that would eventually become a pamphlet 00 film use for the Service Center for Teachers of History pamphlet series. Following the design of the project, the draft manuscript was submitted for appraisal and critique to the directors, staff, and participants of the eighty NDEA history institutes held in the summer of 1967. In large measure on the basis of these reactions, and on the basiB of field work undertaken by the director of the project in the summer and fall of 1967, the manuscript was re ., vised and completed by early 1968, Furthermore, the two co-authors participated- again following the design of the project-in special sessions of the use of films and educational media held as part of the annual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies in November 1967, and of the AHA in December 1967. In other words, the project itself and the Service Center pamphlet that will result from the project each profited from a project design that had an evolving and built-in sequence of components that permitted constant feedback from the field and constant testing of the project's findings as it progressed. The project was completed in April of 1968. The final report to the Office of Education will be submitted in the summer of 1968, and the resultant Service Center pamphlet on the use of films in history instruction should appear before the end of the calendar year 1968. 31 May 1968 Robert L, Zangrando, Project Director " '. ~', , ,', Ii :.-:.- . " " ' . COMMITTEES AND DELEGATES 85 ~ Committee on University and College Teaching (1965-) ., In the ~1ief thateffor~ ,to improve history teach.IDg in the schools must be accompanied by coqesponcImg effort:s on the level of college /' teach.IDg and t~acl~1:!I" prep81:?tion, an:~ ,that the.problem involvi:!tf in ,}"\ teach.IDg iInPF9veml:!ntop the :two levelB show,q, I:)etreated as one, $e \\ .. ", Council ()~ ~th!'! .;\sso~!ati0nin 19(i5 appoint.~ th,,!,CRm¢ttf7 on Uni versity and Colleg~ Teach.IDg to w In its second ye~ the ,Committee attempted to follow tlu;"ough ~ areas it ini tially thought it could be useful and added new areas to 1:b.eoriguiaIlist. Although , th!'!y heJd o!l1y on~ meeting, (6 ,May), the, J;Il,ep1b~s o!1;h~~ol1lIW,~ee corresponded with each other and with the Executive Secretary of the Association and his asso , . da~es. 'Meqwers' .;ilso" wO!;ked, Wi~ (lthel- conID;iittees and groUps that are decillng with i>r,ob~eP1s p~tainipg, to, ~verf!~ty anQ., college t~as:~ing and brought their find ! ings t9,tll~ a~enti,on ,of, th~ 99r,nprltt~e. ~eeping;informed ab91!t and cooperating with oth~ c;gllUIl!nees,both of th~Ass.()ciaHonand other o);"ganizations, have prayed ' extreIIlely va,llJabl~~ 1., ,.; ",'\ j, ' ,,' ,',i i : i ' , At Its annual meeting the Committee dis~~ed,l!tl~ngth! th~ problerp.s 9f ~st()ry I\ teach.IDg in.junior an,dcoll'lI:gunity colleges anq.,conc1udeq,that: a pamphll;!t (similar ~ in PllIiI'Qseto: ih~ Pr 'ai:atio!J., of Seconda,i. 'S,chgolmstor Teachers slioUId be prepared to de~l Wi programs, a tigy Il!l study ac;:illties, e~c .. at I tlq:ee levels: ju.nior,b~che!or and master'~. The C()mmitte~ is interE;!sted in Ii gathering 1nfO,rm.l1-tion. OQ. co.lloqlJia fOl" history majqrsj w:l4ch ,appe!ij:' to ,pe a i rap,i.c1!.y. Bpr~ding teaching me~<><;l, with a vi~w t,o pre,se~ting finqmgs ina future iB \--.-- ~~ ~ ~ '1 ~ \, , " \ ., 86 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION J .. Committee on the Feature Films Project In the iriterest of stimulating the use ofvaried media in college history ~ ... '. j teaching. the AHA launched the Feature Films Project in the fall of ,l 1967, The project will be directed by an ad hoc committee which will J work in conjunction with Teaching Film Custodians (a nonprofit corpo '" ration located in New York) to produce a series of high-quality 8mm, film cartridgeS for use as aSsig'riments in college-level history in struction, Each cartridge will be accompanied by a booklef of read ings designed to suggest alternative or contrasting interpretations of the problems or issues presented in the feature film cartridge. The Committee announced the Feature Films project at the annual meeting in Toronto, The films Will utilize extant feature films to present historical problems and issues of interpretation, The cartridges will be 'designed to carry up to 30 minutes of film, to be made available at the reserve d~k in the library. for use by individual screening on a viewer nearby providing 'a picture at least as large and detailed as a high-quality television set, Portable projectors are also avail able for the cartridges, and eliminate many of the hindrances that have plagued the classroom use of'films ih the past. ' Interested historians were invited, by the Committee to sUbmit suggestions for the film project unit (cartridge and readfugs booklet) which they would like to prepare, APPlicants were asked tq send their suggestions to the chairman of the Committee before 20 February 1968, The applicSilts then selected by the Com mittee will be brolight tO'the Teaching Film Custodians office in New York for one day iti the spring of 1968. where' they may view their films repeatedly and draw up a more detailed description of their project, The projects Which then secure th~ final apprOVal of the Cormhittee will be commissioned for completion hopefully' during the slijI1Iner of 19'68. The target date for publication of the proj ects is the spring of 1969,'so that they may be ready for use in courses in the fall of 1969, ' " Authors of the projects finally selected will be brought to New York City for up to ten clays 'in the swnmer of 1968, expenses paid, The expectation is to provide them an honorarium of $1,000 and royalties' on the sale of the readings booklet uilit, ' . ," It is hoped that these film cartridge and readings book uni'ts, produced imagi natively by competent historians; wflllliustrate the highest standards of the pro feSSion, arid so add a new dftnension to teaching, and tei students' learning. J. Joseph Huthmacher, Chairman MEMBERS; 1968 (ad hoc) J. Joseph Huthmacher. Rutgers University, Chairman William H. McNeill. University of Chicago Michael Petrovich, University of Wisconsin Donald H. Shively, Harvard University Leo Solt. Indiana University Bayrd Still, New York University " ~\ ,'(1,' "< .'" . .' COMMITIEES AND DELEGATES 87 J Committee .on the Professional Register (1960-) The Register continued to enjoy a very active year throughout 1967, in terms ~ .. , . t of candidates seeking placement and employers listing vacancies and inquiring '. about historians to meet their specific needs. The AHA Newsletter remained the " "" chief means of alerting the profession to new job opportunities,at}d department ,t ~ "" chairmen, deans, and other prospective employers were provided throughout the year with vitae forms of candidates wishing to relocate. Both these operations, the publicizing of openings in the AHA Newsletter and the exchange of vitae among employers-in addition to the regular work Of enrolling members in the Pro fessional Register-placed a very heavy workload on tJ:le AHA staff assigned to these functions. In addition, the AHA continued to maintain its Roster of Emeritus Professors, a list composed of retired historians who voluntarily listed them.,. selves with the Association as being interested in further acadeIl1J.c appointments and professional tasks. The staff regularly received requests for this Roster throughout the year., Operating on the recommendation of the Committee on the Professional Regis ter and on formal action taken subsequently by the AHA Council at its meeting on 27 December 1966, the Professional Register appended a list of administrations censured by the AAUP to all its lists of job vacancies, whether printed in the AHA Newsletter in 1967 or posted at the annual meeting of the Organization of Ameri can Historians in Chicago in April of 1967; Whenever a college or university on the AAUP list submitted a job vacancy,' this was carried with an asterisk noting the fact that the institution was under' AAUP censure. Aside from one or two objections from administrators at such institutions, this practice was well re';' ceived by both chairmen and candidates. Several new procedures were incorporated into the Professional Register operation during '1967. Ih an effort to increase the Register's effiCiency and in i the hope of reducing the work load on the staff and the Business Office, the Pro I fessional, Register adopted, with the approval of the Gommittee on the Profes sional Register, a ,practice of annual billing for the renewal of mem~ships in ~ the Register. A canPidate may still register at any time during the year, but all current members were billed for their one dollar, annual renewal fee during the summer of 1967. This ,will give them membership in the Register throughout the academic, year 1967-1968, and they will not be billed again until the summer of " 1968. This procedure-is, compatible with practices followed by, other professional associations in maintaining their placement services, and AHA members were apprised of the change in the October issue of the AHA Newsletter (P. 33) [in addition to the explanatory note accompanying the summer billing to individual registrants ]. In the fall of 1966 the AHA offices installed four pieces of IBM equipment, which allowed the Professional Register, operation; among other office procedures. to be ,placed on IBM punch ctu:'iiB. Froni these cards, special print-ou~ of candi dates, by major historical, fields, Were made available to chairmlm and prospec tive employers using the ,Professional Register at tht;! AHA'Slplual meeting in December 1966 and at the -OAH annual meeting in Apr1l1967. This new system \ proved to work well. and the use of, theIBM cards in preparing lists of candidates to meet individual departmental ~eeds throughout 19,67 also expedited the Register's ability to distribute vitae to emplpyers submitting requests direptly to the AHA • offices during, the year. In preparation for the AHA annual meeting in T:oronto in December 1967 the Register has further refined the system of punching andprint outs in order to make the entire system more sophisticated and serviceable to both candidates and chairmen. C' , ' >,' " .... j, , " . '- ',' '. 88 AMERICAN HISI'ORICAL ASSOCIATION ..I One final word on procedure is in order. In the past, the Professional Register has always operated in a set of five to ten contiguous rooms within the headquarters hotel at the annual meeting. In an effort to ease the traffic flow, the Register has set aside two adjoining salons, with open floor space, for its operations at the Ii, Toronto meeting in December 1967. r Lastly, the chairman of the committee wishes to note that he attended a spe t 8 December 1967 Robert L. Zangrando, Chairman, 1967 MEMBERS, 1968 (3-year terms) David A. Shannon, University of Maryland (69) Roger W. Shugg, University of New Mexico Press (69) Charles Blitzer, Smithsonian Institution (70) Lawrence A. Cremin, Teachers College, Columbia University (70) Benjamin A. Quarles, Morgan,State College (71) Elmer Louis Kayser, George Washington University (ex officio) Robert L. Zangrando, American Historical Association, Chairman (ex officio) Committee on Ph. D. Programs in History' (1966-) At its meeting in March 1966, theCouncilof the AHA agreed to estab lish a Committee on Ph.D. Programs in History, in recognition of the need for standards for graduate program:s in history. The committee was charged with preparing a statement of directions in which Ph.D. programs might usefully move from here on, and possibly compiling a list of consultants. The Council agreed that the committee should , . include younger faculty and those knowledgeable about new develop ments in grliduate training. The first meeting of the Committee took,place at the office of the AHA on 24 and 25 February 1967. At this meeting the Committee decided to draft a statement of standards for Ph.D. programs which in its final form, and if approved by the Council, might be published in the AHA Newsletter. The Committee also drew up a list of historians from which consultants mightbe selected to adVise institutions or departments engaged in establishing or evaluating their Ph.D. programs. Although a majOrity of the Committee did not favor the Association's becoming an accrediting agency, it 17ecommended that the existing committee or an enlarged committee be appointed to prepare and publish a list of departments meeting the standards defined by the Oommittee and approved by the Council. It was under stood that this list could be· altered from time to time in the light of changing information. Such Ii list, the Committee ' believed, would be useful to under graduates who were contemplating applying to graduate schools. Moreover, it did' also suggest that die statement of standards be made available accrediting agencies as well as to the Office of Education and the Council of Graduate Schools. , . The Council at its meeting on 13 May, approved the publication of the statement " of standards when revised, the offering of. a list of consultants, and the listing of institutions meeting the standards in the first issue of the AHA Newsletter in 1969 and in subsequent issues annually. ,; J .~ . ' COMMIITEES AND DELEGATES 89 ." The Committee reconvened on July 12th and revised previous drafts of the proposed statement of standards, taking into account suggestions made by mem .: bers of the Council, After the meeting the statement was redrafted, circulated to members of the Committee, and received the authorization of the Council, The final revision of this statement appeared in the AHA Newsletter VI (OctOber 1967), It • 4-10, i'• (' ',' The Committee was asked to meet with representatives of the Graduate Records .; , Examination Board and the Educational Testing Service at the Royal York Hotel on 30 December 1967, during ct1!e,meeting of the American Historical,Association, The principal purpose of this meeting was to discuss the usefulness of the achievement test offered in the testing program of the Graduate Records Examination Board, The Committee which had had an opportunity to read sample tests prior seemed to be in general agreement that the achieVeolenttestas presently written was of com paratively little use to deparimentSOfhistory in determfuingthe admissibility of applicants. ,Various suggestions were made as to how the examination could be improved. The representatives of the Graduate Records Board and ETS expressed ~ appreciation for the suggestions and indicated that a study would be made along the lines which had been developed at the meeting. December 1967 Richard L. Watson, Jr., Chairman, 1967 MEMBERS, 1968 (3-year terms) Walter Berg, Centr~ Washington State College Joe B. Frantz, University of Texas (69) Richard Watson, Duke University, Chairman (69) Lacey B. Smith, Northwestern University (70) John Snell, Jr., University of North Carolina (70) E. David Cronon, University of Wisconsin (7l) Robert D. Cross, City University of New York, Hunter College (7l) Theodore Von Laue, Washington University (7l) " I ,I 1 t o i j .~ . .\- ,I ,> fl " ~~ -' \ I , . -It ,-' , , AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION .; r , " .; , , " RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION "We are drawn together because we believe there is a new spirit of re search abroad," said Justin Winsor, chairman of the Association's first meeting in 1884. In addition to its own research projects and publications,the Association has made e,fforts to ,promote and facilitate generally the research activities of the historical,scholar, At present several of the Association's committees are devoting time and work to stimulate and encourage sponsorship for worthwhile research projects. to in sure freedom for the researcher from unwarranted pressures and restrictions, and to foster the development of better research tools and methods. In addition, the Council of the Association has since 1964 been involved in planning toward the establishment of an independent National Center for Histori cal Research. which would promote and carry on research in the general interest of invigorating and enlarging the historical dimension in American culture. At the 1966 Annual Meeting the Council provided for appointment of a jOint committee with the Society of American Archivists and the Organization of Ameri can Historians to study and make recommefidations on the status of the National Archives. ' Committee on the Historian and the Federal Governrnnent (1949-) The committee was established to keep the ASSOCiation in touch with " historical activities of the federal government and to seek greater co operation between the government and private scholars. It has under taken to persuade government agencies of the importance of the his torian's contribution to policy formation and evaluation, to assist the government in recruiting historians for special tasks and in estab lishing criteria for appraising its historical products. to encourage government agenCies to publish and make available to scholars those parts of their records having historical relevance. and to develop channels by which the government's historical research work can be undertaken by historians outside the government. The Committee held its annual meeting at the offices of the AHA, September 15th and 16th. On the afternoon of the 15th the Committee considered the problems raised by the exclusion of Professor William R. Taylor. of the University of Wisconsin. from the White House Advisory Panel on Educational Research and Development because of his public opposition to the war in Vietnam. The Com mittee drafted and approved a resolution deploring this action for submission to the membership, at the Toronto Meeting, subjectto assurance from the President's , ' ...-' 90 f' ') ,'. '~:, r '. 'P > ; ,,,~. " '. COMMI'ITEES AND DELEGATES 91 .; Scientific Adviser; Donald F, Hornig, that there were no other reasons than those stated publicly for Professor Taylor's exclusion, : The Committee then 'considered S,836, the bill introduced into the Senate in February of the year by Senator Harris providing for the establishment of a ,I National Foundation to promote research and scholarship in the Social Sciences, IOff The Executive Secretary summarized for the Committee the background of the proposed bill and the action of the Council with respect to it, The Committee took .' /' no action in the matter since none was indicated, other than to note the Executive Secretary's testimony, since ther.e was little prospect that thebiIi would be con sidered in the current session Of Congress, Inthis connection the Executive Secre tary briefed the Committee on the survey of thesotial sCiences,sponsored by the N ationBl Academy of Sciences and the Social SCience Research Council, History will be included in the surVey with a pan'el h~aded by David Landes, The Executive Secretary reported als,,?,on o.ther matters. related to federal support of historical research, including a rough estimate Of the fuhds expend.ed for this purpose by the government, and the possibilitY of increased support from the National Science Foundation. The Saturday meeting of the Committe~ was devoted to a review of the histori cal programs of the major agenciesof'tbe Federal Government, For this session, the Committee met with the professional heads of these programs and explored with them SUell 'problems as a<;:ce$S torecords, recruitment, personnel cooper a tion among the varioUs historical agencies, the establishment of historical pro grams in new agencies and offices, and, finally, the desirability of the appointment of a senior historian in the Executive Office of the Bureau of the Budget, The most serious problem for federal historical programs was reCruitment, and the Com mittee disCussed various possibilities for improving the situation. such as intern ships, grants, fellowships, and an exchange program betWeen the Government and the universities, These possibilities were to be explored in the future between the heads of the various historical programs and the Executive Secretary. 1 December 1967 Louis Morton, Chairman, 1967 MEMBERS, 1968 (5 year terms) Robert Divine, University of Texas (69) Louis Morton, Dartmouth College, Chairman (69) William M, Franklin, Department of State (70) Bradford Perkins, University of Michigan (71) David Landes, Harvard University (72) Rowland Mitchell, Social Science Research CoUncil (72) Henry David, National Research Council (73) Donald Swain, University of California at Davis (73) Committee on National Aid to Historical ( Research (1965-) i .. The committee was appointed by the Council in December 1965, for three years, with provision for review before January 1969, to work with the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities, ,J " "~:. The Committee met on 9 December, with Messrs, Byrnes, Higham, Herlihy, ,... r' Holt, Morton and Ward present, . )'" ' .. o~ , ' ~'! '" 92 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION J The Committee joins in the recommendation of the Committee on Committees that it should be terminated as a standing committee. The Committee believes that the policies it adopted last year are the proper ones and that the problems incident to their application can be handled by ad hoc committees or in some in ,. stances either by the Committee on the Historian and the Federal Government or \, " of ,.< r,.:;. the Committee on Teaching. After the experience several years a review could , well be made to determine if a revival of this Committee should be desirable. " The Committee discussed at length the unhappy situation of the social science historians compared to the historians of science, and even more of the humanities historians. During the year Dr. Ward testified before a Senate Committee con sidering a bill to create a Social Science Foundation comparable to the National SCience Foundation and the Foundation for the Humanities. There is little prospect that any such legislation will be eriacted in the near future. The Committee recom mended that the Executive Secretary write a letter to 'Barnaby Keeney, Chairman of the National'Endowment for the Humanities, commending him for" his efforts to prevent a qlvision ofhistm;-ians into separate social science and humanities groups. The Committee recommends that a special issue of the AHA Newsletter be .. devoted to information about the various aids to historical research Offerea by the government, where and when applications should be submitted, and such other in formation as would be helpful to members of the AHA. The discussion of possible applications to the Humanities Foundation to further the work of the AHA led the Committee to recomm:end to the Council, as it now does, that a small ad hoc committee be appointed to evaluate all the activities and possible activities of the AHA and especially to establish priorities. The Com mittee in its deliberations felt the need of such guidan~e and suggests that all the work of the AHA would be benefited. In this connection the Committee ventures to add the further suggestion that the Council should meet at least once every quarter so as to participate more actively in the affairs of the ASSOCiation. 9 December 1967 W. Stull Holt, Chairman, 1967 MEMBERS, 1968 (ad hoc) Robert F. Byrnes, lndiana University A. Hunter Dupree, University of California at Berkeley " Joe B. Frantz, University of Texas David Herlihy, University of Wisconsin John Higham, University of Michigan W. Stull Holt, University of Washington, Chairman William H. McNeill, University of Chicago Louis Morton, Dartmouth College Committee on Freedom of Historical Inquiry (1965-) The Committee was appointed by the Council in December 1965 to concern itself with a proposed copyright conference, The Committee on Freedom of Historical Inquiry did not meet during 1967. , . December 1967 Arthur Bestor, Chairman, 1967 ) ,,' ,', '1' , "' COMMITTEES AND DELEGATES 93 .,/ MEMBERS, 1968.(ad hoc) Arthur Bestori University of Washington, Chairman Robert A. Gorman, University of Pennsylvania Law School Herman Kahn, The National Archives .. l Donald McCoy, University of Kansas , '" Louis Morton,bartmouth College .." . Committ~e 'on Bibliographical; Services to Histo!"y (19,67 - ) " . : , The Committee on BibliO~aPhiCal Services to History Was instituted as a sU\Il!ling cOmmittee of, tile Associatiqn as ,a result of. action by the AfIA.. Clouncil in; May, 19,67,j to stu4y ,and act upon the matter of • > bibliographi~al servicees ~d)Jo impJement recommendations made at the Belmont Conference of the now defynctjpint CQmmittee on Biblio I graphical Services to History. I The pew' PQIIUnittee ~ have its first meeting at the annual meeting of the L Association in Toronto. Meanwhile the committee has proceeded by exchange of ! memoranda, and is looking to the day when supporting fUnds will enable the Asso,... ciation to appoint a staff member responsible for detailed explorations and planning I of services that have become urgent to the profession, I 11 December 1967 AubreyG. Land, Chairman, 1967 I MEMBERS, 1968 (3-year terms) Oron J. Hale,U~v~sity,of Virginia (69) Oscar Winther, Indiana University (69) R. Stuart Hoyt, University of Minnesota (70) , Aubrey C. Land, University of Maryland, Chairman ('70) Lee Benson, University of Pennsylvania (71) " " Howard F. Cline, Hispanic ,Foundation (71) ; . R. K. Webb, American Historical ReView; (ex officio) Committee on~t1antitative Data in Histor'y (1964-) , ...~ The coIIlInittee was,appoirlted by the Council ,in January 1964 to 1 collect, proces's and nia1 94 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION .I operation with the Inter-University Consortium for Political Research, the Com : mittee progressed so rapidly towards achieving the objective indicated in its original title that an expanded mission seemed not only desirable but feasible. Accordingly, the COWlcil of the Association granted a request to expand its n, scope. ( In general terms, the Committee's mission now is to develop a program that ", l' ultimately will facilitate the research of historians in all fields who wish to make "" . use of quantitative data. Toward that end, and to establish priorities for future " work, the Committee, supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and IBM, held three major Conferences in 1967. As a result of the enthusiasm expressed at those, conferences, and the suggeStions made by the participants, a proposal was made to the Natioryll Endowment for support "to continue activities designed to culminate in a major collection of comparative quantitative historical data." The proposal is still pending. But the prospects do not appear bright that the fWlds requested will be available from the NEH, or from any other foundation, in 'the near future. Until that melancholy situation . . changes, therefore, it would be unrealistic to anticipate that the Committee will be able to make significant progress in extending its operations beyond its origi nal domain of American political data. December 1967 Lee Benson, Chairman, 1967 MEMBERS, 1968 (ad hoc) William O. Aydelotte, University of Iowa Lee Benson, University of Pennsylvania, Chairman Allan Bogue, University of Wisconsin Thomas Condon, American COWlcil of Learned Societies David Herlihy, University of Wisconsin Val Lorwin, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences William p. McGreevey, University of California at Berkeley Warren Miller, Inter-University Consortiuql for Political Research Rowland Mitchell, Social Science Research' COWlcil Jacob Price, University of Michigan Theodore Rabb, Princeton University .. Henry Rosovsky, Harvard University Leonard Thompson, University of California at Los Angeles Robert L. Zangrando, American Histotlical Association Committee on American.;.East Asian Relations The Committee on American-East Asian Relations was established by the Council in December 1967, on a suggestion proceeding from the Joint ACLS-SSRC Ctinuillttee on Contemporary China. The Com mittee was charged with considering ways of strengthening work in this neglected field of study, especially to bring together the skills of East Asian area specialists with the skills of specialists in Ameri can history and diplomatic history. With assiStance from the Joint Committee on Contemporary China, this Com mittee came informally into being during 1967. Preliminary discussions at the AHA meeting in December 1966 were followed by small gatherings of interested scholars in March and' again in September. The Council of the Association con ,.., firmed the charter and tnembership of the Committee in December. ~ t '" ~''''':~" ~ -, . COMMITTEES AND DELEGATES 95 ·,j The aspirations of the Committee remain those set forth in 0' American-East Asian Relations: Problems of the Field," distributed in December 1967. The : Committee continues to view development of this field as an urgent need not only of the profession but of the nation. It continues to see the following as the tasks ., . which, if accomplished, would begin to satisfy the need: < " 1. Recruitment into this field of students who now enter other specialties or ,,< _~ ~A pursue separately either the field of diplomatic history or that of East Asian " "t. studies; 2. Provision of summer language training for such students in order a) to sift t out those not possessing the requisite talent for learning as Asian language, and " b) giving a leg up to those'who do; , 3. Providing fellowships for graduate students with the necessary aptitudes willing to pursue the difficult double track leading to competence in diplomatic . . history and East Asian studies; 4. Providing research grants for post-cloctoral work by these and 0 the r qualified scholars, including scholars in either field who seek to make their work multi-dimensional; 5. Arranging conferences so that scholars in the dual field and scholars from each of the two fields may exchange information, suggestions, perceptions, and findings, in order to advance as rapidly as possible the development of the new field. The Executive Secretary of the Ass6ciation has, on behalf of the Committee, begun exploratory talks with foundation officials, looking towara funding for the first four tasks listed above. Feeling that gev~opment of the f~,eld could not wait on the slow processes of fund-raising, the Committee haS already begun to move on task' five. Several of its merilbers are involved in preparation of a conference, I sponsored by the East Asian InstitUte of Colwpbia University and a counterpart ,I group in Japan, on American-Japanese relations, 1931-1941. At the December ! meeting of the ~A, one of the Commlttee'smembers, N9rman Graebner, ~ought together Ii groUp of schol~s for discussion of research needs ang opportunities in the field. He is continuingexploraxory work in this area and is to report to the , ! Committee during the summer of 1968. In addition, the Cl1airlXlan i.ssued inv~tations ! to a number of scholars to take part in a conference, as yet Unsponsored and un funded, to be held in the winter of 1969-1970, At this conferenc;e petween tWelve and fourteen papers are to be presented, reviewing the stilteof research and writing on American-East relations, period by period, from th~ Peg~g o~ the / 1 nineteenth century to the present, Scholars specializing in Americall diplomatic : history without a special East Asian focus, in Americap liistory more generally, " and in East Asian history, will be asked to comment on these papers, Afterwards, ,f hopefully, they can be published as a review of the state of the field' at the :begin ning of the 1970s. Professors Warren Cohen, Waldo HeinricQs, Edward Graham, Akira Iriye, Thomas McCormick, Charles Neu, James Thomson, ':fe-kong Tong, and Doctors Dorothy Borg, Roger Dingman, and Marilyn Young have thus far 't'; \ agreed to present papers. A meeting of the Committee to review plans for this conference and prospects i for funding tasks one through four is to be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on J\ 17 August 1968. J ~ Ernest R. May, Cluiirman, 1967 r" " ~' \ 334-554 0-69-8 '-tr- , , ,~ : :, " , 96 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION .; MEMBERS, 1968 (ad hoc) J ohn M~ Blum, Yale Univeristy Alexander DeConde, University of California, Santa Barbara /' John K. Fairbank, East,Asian Research Center, Harvard University " " ,.,~ NormanA. Graebner, University of Virginia .,rI' Richard W. Leopold, Northwestern University '" Ernest R. May, Harvard University, Chairman ComInittee on International Historical Activities (1952-) The Conlmittee on International Historical Activities was established by the Council of the Association at its annual meetiIig' of 1952 to help carry on the international relations of the Association, especially its relations wi~th~ Jnt(ll"national Committee of HistQrical Sciences, an int~ational body ~ounded ,a,t 9eneva in 1926 to.grganize Congresses where -historians from different countries could exchange points of view and determine the means best ada,pted to the advancement of his torical sciences. , TheComminee. held its. cill~ meettD,g.of :th~ year on 4 March at the ASSOCi ation's offices with all members preserit except Messrs. Stampp and Wright. The several itetns of busin~ss were followed out thereafter by correspondence. '" After. revie~~ Wr ,~o~ "fays ~ ..'ff~c:1! the A,::l$3o,Ciation has been find~g opportunity~ prom9te~ r~latio~s )Vit4. hi13J9Fil!D,S In Jltlier~oun~ies, the Comnut tee in March t'e4\1es.t~. Mr. Gre:-ft9 .sket~b:cfu,t a po;:!sib~E! proposal for funds to allOw .'e~fii1?Hs1ill,fg 8" niliiimhl; off!ce" ~taf.f," sp~~c::all'1 fot S11(;:h act!vities. The dtl!it waIl. 'l~d on l~. ~ay b~6r~ tli,e G~l\iiicq,wl1iSh E!fter 9ar~ COnsideration decid,ed siin:p!y' 'to receive it 'Witli inter,e~t ,9.1}' iIle gr9unds thli~ ~s new liile of ~diV1ty wottl4 .. ~eelll le§s pressifig'~ari 9!:hI#'m:arter~'wtu~h flOW fully occupy the As sociation' s staff . . " . . . • '0 _ ,- ~·c ~ 1"_' • ,'. ~- , ••• "'- r" "" _ I ~ : ' " At itS ,Mli.tc;:h m~ting; ¢e CQ~iqme~epgllged in, prelim,fuary discussion of " possible arrangements should the IIiternational Conumtiee of Historichl SCiences accept the Assoc!adqf!.S inVi~~gn, t9, ~oM'~~c.¢qngre$s, 'Of 1975.in this coun~y. It i6t~tI:,gree4 ~at;, all~~ 'con.st4eJ;~.,: ~t;yt Yor:k City w~uld re, the prefeire9 • w'" p.. ~ j ~ '~? ~ _ -' ,- " _,"" _ " ,- , 9n th~ sqlJJe'ct.of p~ans fOr tl].e 9QI)gr,~~s at Moscoyi in 1970, the Committee dfscuss~~.(rpossiple sug*estion~t9, ~e,'Ili#"eau.of the InF~natiori~ Committee for ~aJOr pClpers py i\merlcan histonaIU? ~ubsequently, following the meeting of the Bureau ,in ~orne iri. ear~y June; ~.' ,.?pa!er was able to r,eport to the Committee ~at ~e paper~'!',.ere ,assig!lec1 to,~~ U~A. f9J.:' pres~ptati:on at the Congress. The cons~nt of the iIidiy1dua1spholars;~(jqcez:nec1 was thereupon secured. As .an~e~!3~on <# the.,90~ttee's c?nc~ :for good rt;lati.0ns at the scholarly level Wlth E:as~ern~W;9pe. th~ 90mnutteein Mar_ch recommended that the Association extendcoilgtawlatlons to the Hungarian Historical Association on the occasion of its meetlDg iD. Augtisfcomm~otating its ~OOth'anniversary. The Council asked Pres~dentHolborn to draft. an appropriate message in Latin for this occasion and the resulting felicitous message was forwarded in due course by cable. .. The Executive Secretary should add that he thoroughly enjoyed his three-day visit in June to Rome to the regular between-Congresses meeting of the Inter national Committee's Assembly. It was good to meet the assembled historians .. \ I 0'.,.- ." .'.!> ~ " ,~ ~ ~ « ~ , COMMlTIEES AND DELEGATES 97 ./ from other countries under the pleasant conditions arranged by our Italian ., colleagues, .} December 1967 Paul L. Ward, Chairman, 1967 ,l. " !' " " "" ' '. Raymond Grew, University of Michigan (69) Richard Pipes, Harvard University (69) Howard F. Cline, Hispailic Foundation (71) Rosalie L. Colie, University of Iowa (71) Frederic C. Lane, Westminster, Massachusetts (71) Boyd C. Shafer, Macalester College (71) Paul L. Ward, American Historical Association, Chairman (71) Helmut Koenigsberger, Cornell University (72) Kenneth Stampp, University of California, Berkeley (12) Arthur Wright, Yale University (72) Committee on the Commemoration of the American Revolution Bicentennial (1963 -) The AHA Committee on the Commemoration of the American ReVo lution Bicentennial was established in 1963, prior to congressional legislation establishing the American Revolution Bicentennial Com mission in 1966, The Committee proffered recommendations to the White House on what representatives of the historical profession de termined to be the proper means of commemorating the American Revolution. The White House chose to disregard the report of the Committee (the report appears in the 1964 Annual RCOort), but it re mains in existence in the expectation that the Official ommission may turn to it for advice and assistance. The Committee on the Commemoration of the American Revolution Bicen " tennial did not meet in 1967. MEMBERS, 1968 (ad hoc) John R. Alden, Duke University Whitfield Bell, American Philosphical Society Julian P. Boyd, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University Library Lyman H. Butterfield, Massachusetta Historical Society Lester Cappon, Institute of Early American History and CUlture, Chairman Oliver W. Holmes, National Historical Publications Commission Hugh F. Rankin, Tulane University Otis Singletary, American Council on Education William J. Van Schreeven, Archivist of Virginia " Clarence L. Ver Steeg, Northwestern University ,.fA .. ! f I .~ l • , " " , ,'~ 98 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION " . Joint Committee for the Defense of the Rights : of Historians under the First Amendment (1966-1967) " ~ - " I The Council of the American Historical Association adopted a reso ." ' lution on 20 March 1966 providing for a joint committee of the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians composed of the presidents and five immediate past presi dents of the two groups to represent the interest of the historical pro fession and the public with respecttotheFrick~Stevens matter. Miss Helen Clay Frick, daughter of Henry Clay Frick, brought suit against Dr. Sylvester K. Stevens, author and historian, fOJ:" wQat, sile regarded as derogatory statements about her father. in Dr. Stevens' book, , , Pennsylvania: Birthplace of a Nation. The committee was discharged by the Council in December 1967 and replaced by a smaller standing committee composed of: John K. Fairbank, AHA President; Paul L. Ward, AHA Executive Secretary; Alfred Kelly, Wayne State Univer sity; C. Vann Woodward, OAH President; William D. Aeschbacher, OAH Secretary-Treasurer; Paul Murphy, University of Minnesota. The Joint Committee submits its final report to the Council of the American Historical Association and to the ExeCUtive Coinmittee of the Organization of American Historians, and afjks to bediscl}arged. 1. Through its press release in JUly i9668nd its printed appeal sent thereupon to all AHA and OAH members, the- CoIfmifttee succeeded in enlisting, from historians and their friends, wide moral suPPort and generous finanCial support for Dr. Sylvester K. Stevens against the court actionbegun earlier in January 1965 by Miss Heleri Clay Frick at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The Committee made as clear as possible that it was doing this beCatise the proceEidings at Carlisle, so long drawn out with further demands on Dr~ Steveiis, were a serious challenge to the rights of historians under the First Amendment. Although it does not claim to have been of decisive help to Dr. Stevens in the actual winning of his case, " the Committee is confident that any historian hereafter threatened with court action for publishing well-considered historical judgments' is likely to hear of this case and take courage from the way historians came to Dr. Steven's aid. 2. The suit brought by Dr. Stevens in July 1966 in Federal Court, to enjOin Miss Frick from proceeding, was particularly supported by the Committee and came to a halt, on jurisdictional"gI'ounds, when in May 1967 the United States Supreme Court denied application for a writ of certiorari. This suit, ably con ducted by Judge Rifkind'of the NeW York law form of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison, made plairt' the seriousness with which historians were taking the Carlisle (Pa.) proceeditlgs and received excellent publicity in the New York Times and other leading newspapers and magazines. 3. Judge Clinton Weidner's decision of 25 May 1967. was firmly in favor of Dr. Stevens and was widely reported. A number of the statements in it were particularly strong on the rights of the historian to perform his function and will, we believe, help deter future lawsuits of this sort. 4. More specifically, informed public opinion came to see more clearly the .' inappropriateness of a court's assuming the function of judging the specific " correctness of soundness of the judgments in a work of history, though influential .. w comments to this effect appeared only here and there in press and magazines . t ,," of ", " "" , " COMMITTEES AND DELEGATES 99 .I 5. More generally, public opinion at large was alerted in some slight degree to the appropriat~ess of r~specting the historian's expressions of his considered views in his professional publications, 6. The financial responsibilities of the Committee involved three accounts, as follows: , '. r \{ (A) Organization of American Historians (certified by W. D. Aescbbacher) .., (8) American Historical Association ' (certified by P. L. Ward) ... (C) Joint Committee (certified by O. O. Jensen) I ) 7. Since further cases of this sort are not 'expected to be common, but threats and marginal challenges must be met, if at all, promptly and as they arise, the Committee respectfully suggests that it be discharged and replaced by a small watchdog committee, of perhaps three members from each association; that the balance in its Treasurer's hands be returned to the two associations in the ratio of their contributions to be maintained by these as active funds and replenished as needed: and that the new committee not ohly consider any threats and marginal challenges as they arise, but also work out without delay a full "plan of action" for the next major challenge whenever it should appear. Paul L. Ward, Secretary ) I THE JOINT GCU.lITTEE· S TREASURER' S REPORT Receipts to £6te: American lleriiage Publishing Q:Inpany ...... $5,000.00 American liistoriea1 Associa.tion...... _ ••••••••••••••••••• "'" 8,000.00 Organization of American Historians .••••••••••• ~ •• : ••••••• ~ .4 •• 4 •••••••• 5,000.00 Sooieity of Amorican Historians 1,000.00 $19,000.00 Disbursements to Date: Paul, Weiss, Rifldnd, Wharton & G&rrison ...•.•••.•••.••..••.•••••••.••• 13,000.00 Sylvester 1(.. Stevens (reimbursement for legal expenses) ••••••••••••••••• 4,000.00 George F. Ibuglas, Attorney for S. K. Stevens ...... 500.00 17 )500.00 Balance on Depoe! t in MJrgan Guaranty Dank ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1,500.00 " Fifth Avenue Branch New York, New York 30 November 1967 Oliver O. Jensen} TreaBu.rer AHA ACCOlll1t (Fund for the Defense) Receipts fran appeal for fIJnds .... ,... i ...... ··· ...... $15,640.13 Disbursements (Expenses of conmittee meetings, printiog, mailing, and office time totaling .$2,979.00 were covered 1'rooi!I!A general f'ImdB by council action. ) To Joint Coramittee ...... $8,()()).OO Legal Fees ...... ~ Balance ...... , ...... 13,926.76 $1,713.37 OAH Account (Fund for the J)efenae) OAH original donation...... $2,000.00 Receipts from appeal for f'uJld.B ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 5,087.52 7,087 .52 Disbursements To Joint Ccmn1ttee ...... '...... 5,000.00 i EXpenditures (Printing, mailing) ...... ; ...... ~ 5,696.11 4 1,391.41 ~ 'I Balance \ Transferred to restricted aocount for use of Joint Ccmrd. ttee $1,391.41 >~ J \ 1 t\ - ,,, ~ ..,' " ' .' 100 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ·i Joint Committee of the Canadian Historical Association and the American Historical Association (1961-) ,1 ~ r The joint Committee of the Canadian Historical Association and the ~)o American Historical ASsociation was established in 1961 when the .' " Council of the AHA elected three representatives to meet with t:hr'ee " already ,appointed representatives from the CHA. The purPose of establishing the jOint committee was to provide closer collaboration between the CHA and the AHA. Some results of the cooperative efforts of this ~ommittee' are ,the Albert B. Corey Prize in Canadian American Relations and the joint session of the two groups in Toronto in Qecember of 1967., ' The joint Committee of the American Historical Association and Canadian Historical ASSoCiation convened twice during the past tWelve months. once in New York during the AHA annual meeting, once in Ottawa during the,CHA annual meeting. On these occasions attention was given to the ways in which the com mittee might enlarge the cooperative activities of the two asSOCiations. The committee is particularly gratified to report that the first Albert B. Corey award is to be made at Toronto in December 1967. Seventeen books were submitted in competition for the prize. The committee sponsored one session at the AHA meeting in New York and another at the CHA meeting in Ottawa. The latter. bearing the title "When does a Nation cease to be a Colony," was chaired by Charles F. Mullett (Missouri). Roy Nichols (Pennsylvania) sketched the United States experience and Charles Stacey (Toronto) the Canadian. Allen Davis (Missouri) and Sydney Wise (Armed Services Historical Section) were the com mentators. The committee is composed of Craig Brown (Toronto). Margaret Ormsby (British Colilmbia) and Gerald Graig (Toronto). chairman, representing the CHA, and Richard Preston (Duke). john H. Stewart (Western Reserve). and Charles F. Mullett representing the AHA. 20 November 1967 Charles F. Mullett, Chairman, American Section. 1967 ., MEMBERS. 1968 (3-year terms) Charles F. Mullett, University of Missouri. Chairman, American Section (69) john Hall Stewart, Case-Western Reserve University (70) Alice Stewart, University of Maine (71) G. M. Craig. UnIversity of Toronto. Chairman, Canadian Section Craig Brown. UnIversity of Toronto Margaret Ormsby, UnIversity of British Colilmbia Joint Committe on the Status of the National Archives (1967-) At its meeting December 1966. the Council of the AHA resolved to invite the Organization, of American Historians and the Society of American Archivists to join with it in creating an ad hoc commit .. tee to investigate and report upon the status of the National Archives " in the federal government, with particular reference to the question f' \ , ': . . '> '. '" l ".- . .~ , ' COMMITIEES AND DELEGATES 101 ~ whether it should exist as an independent agency. The two other organizations accepted· the invitation, and two members were : appointed to the committee by each of the organizations. At its first meeting on 17 April 1967; the Joint Committee on the StaWs '. t of the National Archives recognized the impracticability of attempting to make a survey and recommendationsconcernihg the nation's archival program without II ~ , the assistance of a staff member who could devote the time necessary to conduct " a detailed investigation and draft·a report. It was in order to secure such assist ance that the Joint Committee sought and received a grant from the Council on Library Resources. The Joint Committee engaged H. G. Jones, State Archivist of North Carolina, then president-elect of the 'Society of American Archivists and one of its repre sentatives 'on the commiUee, to conduct the investigation and prepare the staff study. Mr. Jones was given a leave of absence by the North Carolina Department of Archives and History for thiS purpose. HELmade Ii study of hiStoric81 develop ments leadirig up to the establishment of the National Archives, of the subsequent life of that institution, and of the present status of the archival and records mana agement program in the federal govermntmt. He spent two weeks in'the National Archives and made freqUent short trips to Washington for further s)lldy and interviews. He consulted historians, . arc~vists,records managers, iind other scholars and government officials, iIlcludiIlg the Archivist of, the United States, the Administrator of General Services, and a representatiyes of the Bureau of the Budget. . . The preliminary drafts of 'all chapters of the staff study were given critical review by Julian P. Boyd, cl1aJrman <#theJoint C0mIIiittee, and by a distingmshed group of unoff~cial advisers itic!uding Lyman H•. BlJtteITield, Christopher, Crittenden, Wayne C. Grover, and Oliver W. Holmes. Work on the fmal draft of the study was begun before the end of May 1967, and after several revisi.ons and reorganizations of the text, it was submitted to the full Joint Committee in October 1967. Publi cation of the staff study has been authorized, and Atheneum Publishers will publish it in the fall of 1968 under the title "The Records of the Nation~ Their Management, Preservation, and Use." December 1967 Julian p. Boyd, Chairman, 1967 ,,< AHA members: Julian p. Boyd, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Chairman i Louis Morton, Dartmouth College OAH members: F letcher Green, University Of North Caroliria David A. Shannon, University of Maryland' SAA members: William T. Alderson, American Association for State and Local History H. G. Jones, North Carolina Department of Archives and History Delegates' Reports ADVISORY COMMlTIEE TO THE, MARQUIS. BIBLIoGRAPHICAL LIBRARY SOCIETY (ad hoc) ') Delegate: Richard W. Leopold, Northwestern University i " \ The committee originated in 1966 to formulate questions to Who's I Who biographees eliCiting personal data, facts, and opinions-ora '/ .1 , ".t- , '. " ," :' i' . , " 102 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ,$ more general nawre than th9se inclucled in Who's Who sketches, such data tob~processeQandfiledforuse by accredited researchers. It is composed of, one representative each froq! the American Sociological Association, American Economic AsSOCiation, and . th!'! American Historical Association• ". . I' /l ~ The committee, consisting of Mr. Peter M. Blau of the University of Chicago J" and the American Sociological AssoCiation, Mr. William D. Grampp of the University of lllinois and the American Econom,ic Association, and Mr. Richard W. Leopold of Northwestern University and the American Historical Association, met in University Hall atUniversity of Illinois Circle campus on Tuesday, 27 June. The Marquis Biographical Society was represented by Kenneth N. Anglemire, president of The A.N. Marquis Company, lnc., Oscar B. Treiman and Don B. Freeman,vice-presidents. Mr. Allen Nevins had been invited to attend, but was unable to do so by reason of illness. The conclusiqns reached with respect to eliciting from Who's Who in America biographees information supplemental to that forming their biographical sketches were: (1) that the basicinformationwhich the biographees would be asked to supply would be of a .statistical nawre, to be answered by checking boxes reflecting affirmation or negation, figures and alternatives; (2) the bi I'" "'!, • COMMITIEES AND DELEGATES 103 J thermo-nuclear war, over-population, air and water po!ution, or other causes, the . human race is iD serious jeopardy of extinction, or do you feel that in some way ,~ . humanity will muddle through as in the past? ' Mr. Freeman will seleCt the questions and put them into final form, and would t)· " be happy to have anyfurther suggestions from members of the Advisory Committee, t who are hereby thanked for giving of their valuable time and advice to this project. ,> You will receive copies of the questions, in their final form, with an bpportunity to , /' make any suggestions with regard thereto before they are propounded to biographees. 11 17 August 1967 Kenneth N. Anglemire AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES (4-year terms) Delegate: George W. Pierson, Yale University (69) The ACts is a private non-profit federation of thirty-one national scholarly . organizations concerned with the humanities and the humanistic aspects of the SOCial sciences. It consists of the thirteen member Board of Directors and one delegate each from its con stituent societies. In the course of the first day we heard Lee Benson talk about the computer revolution, comparing it to the revolution of print, asking the universities to revise themselves to take account of this revolution, and challenging the ACts to set up a major center for computers for the Hunamities-a center where the best training experience and resources and information could be accumulated for the use of all. Mr. Benson defined the different applications of comptiters as: (1) information storage and retrieval (2) high speed calctilation (3) symbOl manipulation (4) simulation (5)acting 'as logical task ,master to a scholar. Computer scholar ship would translate us from "little scholarship" to "big scholarship, " and bring .. eqUalitarianism withciut leveling." After BernaI'd Barber of Barnard College had classified the structural changes ~l now affecting our professors, our students, 'and our' university constitUencies, ,I Alan Pifer, President of the Carnegie Corporatiohof·New York; startled a number of us by showing that the philanthropIc foUndatiOns handle a'progressively less important percentage of all U.S. philanthropy, and an almost inconsequential fraction of the gross national product. Hence, he said, they have to be more and more careful in their allocations. They cannot, for example, establish professor s hips. They must try to withdraw from supplying maintenance funds for universities and learned organizations. When challenged on the role of the foundations in supporting the HumftIlities, Mr. Pifer said that he himself had raised.¥1e question i with his board and found three attitudes: (a) the hard-nosed attitude that the ; Humanities are backward-looking, not progressive and experimental; (b) the ( view that some Humanities activities are ok provided that they ,are relevapt to our current problems and needs; (c) the purist' attitude that the Htimanities do not have to. justify themselves. Mr. Pifer made, it plain that ~e belongs to the strong American tradition of pragmatism, eXPerimentalism aild' "re~evance" to f current needs. In the discussion that followEid, the SE!Cr~tary of the American f Historical Association spoke of the desirallility of sohle kihi:l of Brookhaven centers for HumaiW>ts. And Barnaby keeney of the N.E.H. sMd h¢ would welcome a proposal to study the problem. . In a somewhat pessimistic presentation, Robert F. Byrnes of Indiana University l suggested that area studies have now reached a plateau, that money is no longer ~ the first problem but getting at the students and the general public decidedly is. .' \ ~ n.. ; .-',- '., 104 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION j He accused the universities ofno.thavingthoughtthrough the role of area programs in educ~t:j.on, or explored the possibilities of cooperative arrangements between .. : colleges and universities, or the problem of enJisting the bright young m!,!n and giving them the proper car,eer training andlibraryresources. Despite an apparent .l s4-ccel?s of. twenty years, the are~ programs are still not incorporated into the I' university: stru~ture. ~. At the annual meeti,ng of, the Qelegates, on 20 January the revised system of f~ .,tI annual. dues from cOnstituent sqci!;!ties was v9ted without 0ppo\3ition. J, Peter Elder " and Germaine Bree were re-elected to the Council. President Burkhardt reported that over the past ten years the ACLS had received and spent some $24 million, and a "Summary Statement" of the ACLS work and plans for its fiftieth anniversary capi~ dev!'!lopmentprogram was put into the hands of all the Delegates. On behalf of the National Endowment for the Humanities, it was reported that a renewal of the Act with minor improvements was in the works in Congress. Said improvemen~ to m,ake !t ea,si~ to gel; ml!-tching fl1ll4l?, and possible for the two chairmen of the NEA and the·NEH to turn down requests of less than $25,000 without having in each instap.ce. to get the f]1l1 advi~~ of their councils. The proposals currently being considered are for a budget of $27% million for '69 and of $40 million for ' 7P"...... , . A proppsal t9 extf:!ndthe AAse ,!lle~ship of the ACLS by incorporating additio~ le,arned so~ie~es, witll,PClI"ticlJl?I" reference to the American Catholic Philosophical Society; met With gpnsiderable relu~tance, .and was postponed. The chairman of the Conference of Secretaries, Mr. John Hurt Fisher, then reported on a most interesting discussion that had occupied the preceding evening: a Nat:j.gnal Aca December' 1967 d. W. Pierson ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMl'ITEE 'ON BiBLIOGRAPHIES OF BRITISH HISTORY (ad h()c) ., < , !' ", . Qelegate, Hemi'-y R. Wink1e~" Rtitg!'!biJ'niversity ." ',' 'nO. ',' > ~ \ .. Th.e cOIDPlittee origihaf¥ !fl i956 with aFordFoundatiorlgrantto the . AHA to revifle and 'cbmp~et~ the planned series of pibliographies of 'British history ,and cIViliZation; The committee includes the AIDer-lcan Historical Associatioq, 'ille?ri¢jh Academy, theMeditteval'Academy of America, and the Royal Historical Society, With whom $e AHA is cooperating to produce the series. . . 1. Professor H. Hale Bellot, for Writings on British History, writes: "Volumes I-IV (IV being in two parts) are in the press. Vols. I and II are due for publication '" , ,., 4,. !:- ·t 'f" '~ t ~ .., .. COMMI'ITEES AND DELEGATES 105 J in February. Vol. III is to follow later. I have corrected the galleys and await the revise of Vol IV. Vol V (also in two parts) is with the indexes. I expect to send it r'" to press early in the New Year." , 2. Dean Mary Frear Keeler, for the BibliO~aphY of Stuart History, writes ~, that the Clarendon Press returned her compiet manuscript to her in the early ..r summer, followed by some sample pages this fall, and that she is working on some -revisions of style and on the index. She cannot report an ~'exact date" when she .... will be able to return it to England. , " 3. Professor Edgar B. Graves, for the revision of Charles Gross, Sources and literature of En h histo from the earliest times to about 1485 (2nd edition, .' 1, 1 1 ), received a Senior Fellows'p oni'the Natio Foundation for the Hu manities, and is on sabbatical leave from Hamilton College this academic year. He has finished Vol. I, on the written sources to the Norman Conquest, and on ancillary fields such as paleography, numisniatics, philology, air.;.photography, archaeology and art, but has held back the manuscript from the press in order to add material from Vol; il, which, with the index; will probably be much longer. He sent Vol. I to England for critiCism, went there to confer with the various speCialists, and plans to go again to EnglaIid after February I, "when most of Volume 2 should be in typed, if tentative form." 4. Professor Ian Christie and his co-editor Dr. Lucy Brown, for the Bib lio~:fPl of British History, 1789-1851, report that three-fifths of the work is in orm;8Dd that another two'years should see it finished. 5. Professor H. J. Hanham, for the Bibli~hY of BritishHis~1851- 1914, writes that he has not done as much as he c~wish, because Ofistra tive work at the University of Edinburgh, He had a full-time assistant for part of last summer, He hopes to be able to "start a thorough revision of the bibli ography sometime in January and thereafter all things ought togo fairly smoothly," I have written before that the preparation of annotated, selectivebibliograpbies is slow work, especially when the editor has a full-time job or works also on some other commitment, Mrs. Keeler and Hanham have had administrative tasks; Graves has edited two volumes left unfinished by the late William Lunt, and Christie has completed a volume of Bentham correspondence. November 1967 Stanley Pargellis CENTRAL ATLANTIC REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL LABORATORY (CAREL) '~ Delegate: Robert L. Zangrando, Service Center for Teachers of History In 1966 the AHA Service Center for Teachers of History formally ,1 requested and received a voting membership in CAREL. CAREL is ) one of several regional laboratories established with f~eral funds \ under Title IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act at 1965. It serves the states of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and i the District of Columbia. The Director of the Service Center is t the voting delegate to CAREL. Two membership meetings of CAREL were held during 1967. CAREL's initial programmatic focus is on the improvement of education, kindergarten through grade three, with special attention to the disadvantaged child. At present the Laboratory is developing curricula in art, music, dance, theater arts, and literature for this student population. .i, 8 December 1967 Robert L. Zangranclo .' \ ~ I • ., " , . , , 106 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ./ CONSORTIUM OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS FOR SWDY OF SPECIAL TEACHERlMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS (1 and 2-year terms) (V Delegates: Robert L. Zangrando, American Historical Association (July I, 1969) ~ . Paul Varg, Michigan State University (July 1, 1970) ." /' ~, CONP ASS was organized in 1966 by representatives of five pro J 4" • fessional associations, including the AHA. to supervise studies of special programs for the improvement of instruction in American education, and to provide a means.·of continuining assessment of of such programs, especially those of the Offic;:e of Education's .NDEA institutes. i . The .. y.~ 1967,..68 ·was a paradoxical one 'f9rConpass and for the interests of ,the AmericEUl Historical Associl!tl()n in the ConSortium. On the one hand, it was a period of conSiderable finanCial and administrative travail and uncertainty, the magnitude, of which at times threatened the substantive interests and further development of the Consortium; as noted below, most of these problems appear now to be solved. On the other hand, this past year saw a continuing growth in the activity and effectiveness of the Consortium and the begi:nrJfug of an expansion of its interests and aims. Thus, the Consortium not only survived but it laid the ground work for future development in ways of particUlar interest to the AHA. Purpose.and Scope . Dne of the most exciting and promising developments of the year was discussion within and outside the Consortium Board of several new directions in purpose and activity for Conpass. While evaluation of specifiC in-service teacher training programs sponsored by· the US Office of EdUcation, the original aim of the Con sortium, remains its major current activity and should continue, in my opinion, to form a significant part 'of Conpass's concern, attention began to be directed during the past year to other iinportaht issues: greater recognition on the part of the US Office of Education of the interests and ideas of subject-matter pro fessional association concerning teacher training and curriculum development for the schools; improved communication between discipline specialists and pro fessional educators and within the academic professions concerning the need for " better education in the schools; and a growlngrealization that long-range improve ment of pre-college education can result only through the joint efforts of subject matter and educational specialists to revamp pre-service training programs for teachers and to develop new curricula. In other words, the Consortium began to move from its immediate goal, evaluation' of in-service training programs, toward its more distant and even more important objective, the involvement of discipli nary associations and specialists in a variety of endeavors, cooperatively with educators and With local, state, arid federal' school officials, designed to provide better teaching and content in· the schools. This development accords well with the interest and hopes of the AHA.forConpass.: In addition to an extension of purpose, the Consortium took preliminary steps to broaden its representation by appointing to the Board as a member-at-Iarge the Director of Education of the American Associatian for the Advancement of Science (Dr. John Mayor), by undertaking preliminary talks with the National Science Foundation concerning projects of mutual interest, and by submitting to study the question of adding to the Consortium professional associations in the sciences and' mathematics, as well as such bodies not now represented as the American Sociological Association and the ~erican Anthropological Association. " )." . ,; '1-.; :l'1: COMMlTIEES AND DELEGATES 107 J Administration and Financing ,. <'" Meetings of the Board, on which all the member associations are represented, were held in the fall and spring, At other times a smaller ExeCutive Committee met, almost monthly, to conduct Consortium business, aninnovation which worked " ,~ well. The Conpass office was administered by the Association of American .' \ Geographers in Washington, under the able supervision of Dr. Jewell Phelps, " '" J Director of the Consortium. At the end of the year arrangements were made " to transfer the Conpass office to the supervision Of the 'AHA since it was felt 1 that no one of the member associations should have to carry the burden too long. From the summer of 1967 tmtil well into the spring of 1968 there were con tinuing difficulties in obtaining ftmds from the Office of Education tmder various contracts and arrangements. AlthoUgh monies promised were eventually forth coming and although arrangements for the future promise to be substantially more efficient, this problem tmderscored the desirability of the Consortium broadening its financial base, by developing contracts with other organizations and perhaps by seeking support for its continuing operations from private sources. Communications During 1967-68 the Consortium issued two copies of a newsletter, "Conpass News," which was distributed to the Conpass mailing list and to the member associations. In addition, copies of study reports previously published by Conpass and of a new report on the Experienced Teacher Fellowship Program were widely distributed. A member of the Board, Dr. Heberton Evans, of the American Economic AsSOCiation, presented useful recommendations at the April Board meeting of ways to improve communication of Conpass findings to interested individuals and groups in the asSOCiations, in professional education, and among the general public; it is expected that these suggestions will be implemented in the fall of 1968. Professor Donald Gray, author of an earlier Conpass report, was commissioned to prepare a summary analysis and interpretation of all Consortium fiqdi.ngs and recommendations concerning in-service Instityte training. This paper, relatively brief, will sum up what has been learned by evalulltion and studY,of the Institute c· f experience and wil1 suggest the implications Qf this for the design and improve ment of various kinds of teacher trainingprograInS, pre-service and in-service, in the future. This pamphlet will be. published in the fall of 19t;i8 and distributed widely. It should help substantially in making Conpass's role and contribution known more hroadly in educational circles' as a whole. . I As suggested earlier, dialogues with important new groups were also initiated in 1967-68. At the request of the ConpassBoard, several of its members met with , Commissioner of Education Howe in November to discuss ways in which the scholarly professions might cooperate more fully in the development of Office of Education programs and policy. In addition, individual Board members, such as , Paul Ward and Saul Cohen~' had several other meetings with Howe and with other I Office of Education ofttcials on this aDd other matters. Though few concrete " organizational steps have resulted so far, it is clear th8:tfederal officials are anxious to have the assistance and views of the Consortiuin, and the entree thus established was useful in getting Conpass opinions and suggestions considered in I development of the guidelines for the new Equcations Professipns Development ! Act. In addition, the head of the new bureau to administer the Act, Don Davies, has been anxious to keep in close touch with the ConSortium and to hear its views. " At the same time closer communication was established with two other groups. '. ! As a result of several long discussiOns with variOus officials in the National Science l Foundation, ways in which the concerns of the Consortium and the interests of t~ ,R ) ~ l ,~ " " '.' I 108 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ./ specialists in science education could be brought together were identified; several joint projects were mapped out but their implementation will depend on the .. availability of funds. Since the NSF has been concerned with Course Content Improvement programs, as well as ynth teacher education, this maybelp shift ,} part of the ~onsortium's focus to study and evaluation of curriculum. Finally, one r day of the spring Board meeting was devoted to joint discussion with members t'~ of the National NDEA Institute (mostly professional edilcators) on how to improve (I ..f • the EPDA guidelines and on ways in which academicians .and education specialists can work more closely together. This promising exchange should be continued and expanded in a joint effort to show that content and method, the disciplines and professional education, are one and indivisible. Experience of several Board members on a panel during one of the meetings at the annual convention of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education at Chicago in February suggests that there is much more common ground for action and thought than some people on the two sides of the fence generally recognize. Study and Evaluation Conpass continued to do excellent work in this area, and there is no question that the Consortium is learning a good deal about the components of various teacher education programs, about what works and what does not. At some point these conclusions should form the basis for Conpass developing or for encouraging others to develop, several model or experimental programs which might provide guidance and leadership in teacher education to diSCipline departments and schools of education. Under Consortium sponsorship a preliminary evaluation of the Experienced Teacher Fellowship Program iil 1966-67 was completed and a more intensive investigation of three sample programs for 1967-68 was undertaken. Project Im pact continued its study of how Institute programs affect teachers after their return to the classroom and whether holding such programs has any influence on the host institution. In addition, the Ccinsortium sponsored a study of the development of the new Office of Education program which focuses on the trainers of the teachers of teachers (Triple 1) and whi,ch attempts to join together in one coheren~ arid cooperative training struc~ethe' subject matter specialists (and their administrators), the professional educators (and their administrators),and the administrators and teachers Of the school sYSteni itself. ResUlts of this study, ,I which should be available next faIl. qr winter, may be among the most revealing yet prodUCed for the Consortium: they may indicate whether and in what ways SUdl a "ertical, cooperative sysi~ can work. Finally, Conpass sponsored a study of the screening procedures for the first round of proposals under the Educatioris Professions Development Act, Conclusion Although not all activities of the Consortium ate of equal interest to all historianS, it is clear that the continuing efforts of Coilpass to' establish frank and produ<:tive communication between acadetnicians and educational speCialists, to have' th.e voice of the scholarly professiOns heard ill the Office of Education, ~d. to identify better means oftfaining teachers who will be both well versed in their subject and able to transmit that knowledge effectively to students are very important to the future of the historIcal profession as a whole and are of special significance to thos!,! memb~s, of . the Association who are concerned that the teachirig of history in the sChools - and at the under-graduate level - be im proved. I therefore strongly urge that the AHA continue its active cooperation in the work of the Consortium and that it support the'new directions' and aims toward which Conpass seems to be heading. " John M. Thompson f ~ ., . . COMMITIEES AND DELEGATES 109 ·1 COMITE'" INTERNATIONAL DES SCIENCES HISTORIQUES (S-year terms) r Delegates: Boyd Shafer, Macalester College, Bureau (70) Paul L. Ward, American Historical Association, Assembly (70) 0\ " " The CISH is an international body founded at Geneva in 1926 to organize <::ongresses. where historians ,from different countries i' " ~ could exchang~ points of view and determine the means best adapted .. to the advancement of. historical sciences. Its executive board, the Bureau, is elected on an indiv1dual basis by the Elureau and Assembly. The Assembly is composed of representatives of national groups. The Bureau meets once a year and the Assembly once every five years. See the Committee on International Historical Activities report. INTERNATIONAL TEXTBOOK PROJECT Representatives: Roderic H.Davison, George Washington University j Robert L. Zangrando, American Historical Association Starting in the s~er of 1966, the 'National Council for the Social Studies, Phi Delta Kappa, . and the AIneI'ican Historical Association (through its Service .Center .lor TeaChej:"s of ~istory) initiated a two-year projec~, known as th~. International. Textbo.o1c Project. I Designed to produce an anthology Of re8d1ngs for American students \' in the eleventh-grade United States history course in classrooms throughollt this country, the Project has gathered excerpts from school teXtbooks around the world. Each excerpt discusses an If event in American history, so that the anthology will provide American students with a direct indication of what their counter parts throughout ¢e world are learning about episodes in American r> history (for example, what do British, Mexican, Russian, and Argentine texts say about the Monroe Doctrine?). \ " The three organizations that initiated the Project have each provided operating funds for the work of a Steering Committee of Six, composed of two representa tives from each of the organizations. Under the aegis of this Committee, textbooks were secured from over thirtynations, and twenty... three historians and educational and area. specialists worked throughout 1967 to identity, .extract, and translate a massive body of, material from w11icht\le anthology cou)4ile fashioned. The Steering Committee members read ·through the material, and the Committee met at regular intervals to discuss and shape the project as it evolved. Donald ~ Robinson has written the necessary introductory passages for the full book and for the several sections and exoerpts. The manuscript has been sUbmitted to Houghton Mifflin Company,which plans to publish the·book sometime in 1969. Members of the Steering Committee of SiX for the International Textbook Project are Jack Allen (George Peabody College for Teachers). and Merrill Hartshorn (National Council·for the SOCial Studies) for the National Council for the Social Sllldies; Michael Chiappetta (Indiana University) and Donald W. Robinson (Phi Delta Kappa) for PhiDeltaKappa; and Roderic H. Davison (George Washington University) and Robert L. Zangrando (American Histori~al Association) for the J American Historical AsSOCiation. ? ~t, " Robert L. Zangrando .- 'h ~ .~ ) ~ ".- 1 , , 110 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION .I NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ACCREDITATION OF TEACHER EDUCATION (NCATE) (3-year term) Delegate: Louis Morton, Dartmouth College (70) { <', ~ This body is concerned with accreditation of college and university ,# and ~ programs in teacher education, its constituent orgariizations are AACTE, CCSSO, NASDTEC, NCTEPS and NSBA. Its membership consists of representatives from these chosen by the NCATE coordinating board, and three representatives from learned societies, of which AHA is currently one. Professor Louis Morton of Dartmouth College succeeded Professor Charles Sellers of Berkeley as the representative of the American Historical Association on the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education in July 1967. There are three representatives from learned societies on the Council and this is the second time the Association has been invited to send a representative. The previous term was one year, but in 1967 NCATE invited the AHA to appoint a delegate to serve a term of three years, commensing in November 1967. NCATE meets three times during the calendar year. The first of these meetings was in Fort Worth, and was devoted to discussion of a draft of new criteria that had been prepared by a specialconunitteeofthe American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. The new procedure and criteria outlined in this graft are to be tested in a pilot study under Ii- grant from the Office of Educati.on.' TIiere was also a thor~ugh discussion of the visitation procedureduriilg the meeting; Louis Morton, 1967 ~ NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIALSTUDIE8-SOCIAL EDUCATION (3-year terms) Delegates: Robert L. Zangrando, Service Center (69) -" George Barr Carson, Oregon State University (69) The NCSS is the Department of Social S~dies of the National Education ASSOCiation. Social Education is, a journal published by the -NCSS ,in collaboration _wit)1' the AHA. The AHA has two representatives on the'9-memper Executive Board of Social Education. , ' , Working relationships with the Nati-onal Council for the Social Studies and with its journal, Social Education, remain productive and warmly cordial. By way of elaboration, one need only mention such reciprocal efforts ,as the jomt AHA-NCSS luncheon held on 24 November 1967 as part of the NeSS annual meeting iIi Seattle, the session on "The Enrichment of the Teachihg of History Through Films" spon sored jointly with the NeSS and scheduled for 28,December 1967 as part of the AHA Annual Meeting in Torontoj the International TeXtbook Project sponsored by the NCSS, Phi Delta Kappa, and the AHA, and, finally, the fact that the Director of the AHA Service Center was again elected to serve as a member of the Executive ., Committee of the Executive Board of Social Education. Undoubtedly the most important news concerning Social Education is the fact ~-? that the journal will be changing editors in the fall of 1968. When Lewis Paul Todd, f" \ , " , ' , , " ~. ' COMMlTIEES AND DELEGATES 111 J the present editor, announced his intention of retiring from the post by December 1968, the NCSS Board of Directors asked the Executive Board of Social Education to, undertake the task of nominating a §!uccessor. ~ The Executive Board held several meetings 011 the ma~er"and, unqer $e skilJ.ful hand of its chairman, William H. Cartwright of Duke University, it mapped a procedure for identifying a • " t new editor. After devoting much work and ca.reful 1:iIo.ught to the question, the r ~ ~~ Executive Board of the~ journal nominated Dr. Daniel Roselle of the History -'" Department of the State llniyersity CollegE! of New York at Fredpnia. At its annual meeting iIi Seattle in lateNoyember of 1967, the NCSS Board, of Directors approved , " this choice and formally gffered .the position to Dr. Roselle. He accepted, and he will assume his duties in September 1968. S December 1967 Robert L. Zangrando NATIONAL HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS COMMISSION.(4-year terms) Delegates: Lyman H. Butterfield, The Adams Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society (69) Whitfield Bell, American Philosophical Society (70) The NHPC has 11 members and an Executive Director and two of its members are AHA representatives.· ~ This report covers two highly' productive years in the life of the National Historical Publications Commission. An antecedent report (in the Association's Annual Report for the Year 1965, I [Washington, 1966], 68-69) gave evidence of "promising beginnings" under the Commission's grant program; during 1966-1967 these have fructifi~ impressively. All five of the "priority" documentary projects.in letterpress supported by the Ford Foundation's grant Of 1964 (namely the Jefferson, Frlinklin, Adams, Hamilton, and Madison Papers enterprises) have ~lished further volumes, during this biennium. From projects supported in substantial Part by appropriated funds under Public Law 88-3,83 have cpme further volumes of Calhoun and Clay Papers and initial vol~E!s of U;S. Grant and Andrew Johnson Papers. As this report is written the ffrst volumes' of the Documentaiy History of the Ratification of the Constitution, the Papers of Henry Laurens, and the. Diaries of isaac Backus>are " in the press, as are the fifth and sixth volum.~s of the Susquehannah Company Papers. New or continuing grants have alsobeenmade to the follOwing letterpress undertakings, among others: Doctimentary History of the Flrs,tFederalCongress, Documentary History of the.FirstFedera! ElectionS, CqrreSpondencE!of Jam,es K. Polk, Papers of Jefferson Davis, of John Charles.Fremont, of James Iredell, of John Marshall., and of Henry R. Schoolcraft. In the l~tter part of 1967 a study of the feasibility of editing andpublishingtheextraordinarilyric:h papers of Benjamin H. Latrobe was in progress with Commission support. ' The Commission has also eridorsed.a number of other documentary projects, large and small, which it either could not or df.d not need to asslstfinanC;iallY. Such endorsements are far. from mere formalities, for they entitle,the,r!'!SPective editors to call on the expert services of the Commis~ion' s s,t#f in locating, earmarking, and reproducing relevant documents in the National Archives and the Library of Congress. Editors ",ho avail themselves of this help find it invaluable and. are often surPrised by its productivity. ~'.' Running in. tandem with lts. program of support for edited works in letterpress is theColllliussion's long-range plan to see to it that all majqr J:>o:die;; of un publish,ed sources of. genuineiy national signifi.cance, wherever may be, are :! tAey ,,¥, proteCted from loss and made more, available for \lSe by publication on film. Its " ~:~- progress toward this distant but not unattairiable goal ma.Ybe measured by J 334-554 0-69-9 \ ;<' fo', . ~-' ' .~ 112 AMERICAN HlSI'ORlCAL ASSOCIA nON ~ consulting the second edition of the Conimission's Catalog of Microfilm Publi cations, iSS\led in October, 1967, This lists, with their prices~ 61 publications that had so fat been issued by 14 of the 23 institutions' aided by NHPC grants, the number of rolls of film per publicationvaryingfrom one to 167, and the total rolls " amounting to 1,036. Each publication is accompanied by a pamphlet gitide, with l suitable historical and descriptive notes, prepared bY the Owning institution, and the t! i' guides themselves (which are obtainable separately at more or less nominal cost) ./ are beCOming, 'as -they accumulate, importantadjUlicts·to research. There is scarcely any subject in American history from the 17th to the early 20th century on which they do hot signlficantly touch. Still more publicatiohs' rin film have been completed since the recent Catalog was issued, for this is an open-ended program, designed, as its chief instigator has said, to help equalize opportunities for historians wherever they may be. (See Wayne C. Grove, "Toward Equal Opportu nities for Scholarship," Journal of American History, LII, 715-424 [March, 1966].) Not unexpectedly, the Commission has found that requests for financial support of worthy publication projects, in both letterpress and microfilm, have far outstripped the funds appropriated for grants under P.L. 88-383. It is in the very nature of things that this should be so, but the stringency has been the greater because not once since the program was established has the full annual sum of $500,000 authorized by the law survived the usual budget-paring processes. For four successive years it has stood at $350,000, and in a wartime atmosphere this is more likely to be reduced than enlarged. One encouraging development has been the effective relationship worked out between the NHPC and the National Endowment for the Humanities, whose grant-making activities ~t be supposed in some degree to overlap those of the Commission. A memorandum of understanding, summarized in the AHA Newsletter .for February, 1967 (and in the principal historical journals), commits the two agencies to consultation and cooperation iri appraising applications and making grants' in the area of documentary publication. The good sense of this agreement has already become manifest in the handling of a ntimber of editorial undertakings proposed or in progress. So far t ' this report has concentrated on the grant program of the NHPC, but grants are by no means its whole busiiless. Since 1952 it has been charged, some what inappropriately, with the responSibility of compiling the annual volumes of Writings on American History, and in 1967 it issued the i 958 volume. The volumes " for 1959 and 1960 have been in the hands of the Government Printing Office for some time but enjoy a very,low priority. The volume for 1961 is nearing editorial completion and will be the last to appear under NHPC sponsorship. Because of the recent enormoUS increase of published scholarship in the American field, bibliographical control Of it will have to be taken up by other means if the profession wishes it to be continued. , With funds derived from the Ford Foundation grant of 1964, the Commission has sponsored a comprehertsiveSllrvey on the Use of Original Sources in Graduate History Training, now completed iri draft form; andwithfUmis from the same source it inaugurated in the atademicyear 1967-1968 a trainittg program of its own by appointing five Fellows in Advanced Historical Editing, each of whom is serving as aii'assistant editor for one year with a major editorial enterprise. For the work of administering, watchdogging, and advising its multiplying documentary projeCts, conducting searches for them, and planning others- operations which require hard thought} painstaking attention to detail, and a formidable amount of paperwork--the Coriunission has.a miniscule prOfessional and clerical staff. Yet itS services have become vital to the advancement of historical snidies in the Umted States. It n'eeds and deserVes a: much better press and much broader public support, which will have to be built up by the historical '. profession itself.' These n~ are imperative at this moment because the Comn'tissioh's program of grantS funded by annual gavernmentapproptiations will .' I, I" ' ,'. ~ if ", , " . , " " GOMMI'ITEES AND DELEGATES 113 ,..I expire after fiscal year 1968 unless extended by new legislation. Bills have now , been introduced by Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island and Representative , George P. Miller of Cal,ifornia and referred respectively to the Senate and House Committees on GOvernment Operations (~. 2060 anc). H.R~ 14287). Support " for these is essential. Since history is continuous, the publication of ample and faithful historical 'sources must ,continue. r,,. ",' December 1967 Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. L. H. Butterfield SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL (3-year terms) Delegates: William O. Aydelotte, University of Iowa,(71) Samuel P. Hays; University of Pittsburgh (71) Philip D. Curtin, University of Wisconsin (70) The SSRG consists of three representatives each from the American Anthropological AsSOCiation, American Political Science Association, American Sociological Association, American Economic Association, " and the American HistoriCal Association, and eight directors at large" for a total of twenty-nine members. Detailed reports of the activities of the Social Science Research Council are readily available in ,its quarterly newsletter Items and in its Annual Report, and it would not. be 'useful to attempt toparapllrase or summarize thiS information ! here. 'Ii, thay, 'li~~eyer; ,be ofspecialp!terest to historians to note that, although Histqry is Q,nly one,o! the 'severi discipline~ formally represented on the board of t directors" of 'the,' 'SSRC historians have'received a substantial proportion of the financ'iaf sUpport giv/.mbythe CoUncil and have also taken an extensive part in its actiVities: ~oni,e iIiterestingstatistics rec:enilycompiled' in the SSRC office show that, during the past year,historians received 40% of the grants in the general programs Sifd '30% of ,the grants in the area programs. 'the grants in the general program ~e Of some strateglcsignificance smce they make it possible for young historiai,ls to i-~ceive, ~ahimgin;?1"eas not normally Ii part of a Ph. D. program in history such as methodS of quantitatiye p.nalYsis, demography, and sociological " and economic theory and methOdology. Historiaris have also been active on the ! variouS po]jcy-makmg committees of die SSRC mCIudilig all of the siX area cOrInruttees, 'appoiht~ jointly by" i:li~ Courtciland the"'ACLS, arid the various '! coffimiti:ees ,Of the Council that' adniinister its grants and fellowships. Though no I present coihniittee of'!:1ie SSRC is exCIusivelyconcerned "1th histori<;:al problems, many' Qf its co~ttees have mad~, historical questions a central part of their interests. ThiS applies, for example, to' the two international conferences held in Lortd,on duting 1967 by the Conuriittee on Economic Stability and by the Joint CoriUnittee on tbeNearandMiddleEast.'rhefirst conference dealt with the history of the !:ius1ness cycle, and the seconC\ >Vith the economic history of the Middle' East { from the rise of lslam to thepresent. Other coriunittees orthe Council are planning for the, near future conferences on historical sequences of political development, ort the history of the family, and on the comparative study of politics. The exteIlsive surv'e& of the social 'and behavioral sciences, under the joint auspices of the SSRC and ~e Nati,onal I{esearch Council, is at present under way, with a committee on history chaired hy pavld S.Landes of Harvar;d: Ii: is hoped that' a summary report 1 for all th~ soclal.sciences can be publishedby1970,ilfter which the reports of the c'ommittees on different discIplines will be'issued as separate volumes. , , ,~, '<', , • December 1967 William O. Aydelotte ,! 1 ) > " ~ .' . ., 114 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIA nON .; Ad Interim Appointments The following ad interim aPpoinOllents as represen~atives of the American Historlcal Association at special occasions were made in 1967: Robert N. Burr A of of , , ( of the University California at Los Angeles at the thirteenth Congress , ,< lbera-American Literature at the University of California at Los Angeles on .' ,.,-I january 18-21; Elmer Louis Kayser of the American Historical Association at " the centennial Charter Day of Howard University on March 2; Roy F. Nichols and Thomas C. Cochran of the University of Pennsylvania at the seventy-first annual meeting of the American Academy of Political and Social Science on April 7-8; Ralph W. Greenlaw of North Carolina State College at the inauguration of E. Bruce Heilman as president of Meredlth College on April 15; Alfred J. Henderson of MacMurray College at the inauguration of Glenn Lowery McConagha as president of Blackburn College on April 22; Newton, B. J ones of Furman University at the inauguration of joseph Wightman as president, of Erskine College on April 29; Richard Drake of Berea College at the National Center for School and College Television Conference at Indiana University on May 2-3; Robert Randall of Case-Western Reserve University at the National Conference on the Hunamities at Baldwin-Wallace Gollegeon, May 5-6; john R. BengtSon of Wisconsin State University at,Oshkosh at the inauguration of Bernard Schroder Adams as president of Ripon College on May 6; John F. Roche of FOrdham University at the unveiling of busts of the Wright brothers at the ,Hall ,of fame.for Great Americans at New York University on May 7; Brainerd Dyer of the University of California at Los Angeles at ,the inauguration of John Alden Greenlee as president of California State College a~ Los Angeles on May 8; Gary Yoggy of,Corning Community College at the mauguutlon of Robert Vi, Frederick, Jr. as president of Corning Community Co,uege on May, 18; C. 13r~~o:rd O'BrAen o(the Uni,versity of ~alifornia at Davis at the 4ta~ation..."of Ro~t E:1,lg,enetiill as president of Chi,co State College on May 20;, G~l I3ridenbaugb of" Brown ;U¢versity at the eighth AIigla-American Conference of H~storlans ~t the !Jni,versi1;Y of, LC;lOdon on july 10-15; frederic C. Lane of The Johns l;iopkins, UniyersitY' a~ the in~l,1guration of Burton Crosby Hallowell as president 0( Tufts UniversitY, of Sept~ 24; Frieda A. Gillette of Hough~qr;t College at the inauguration Qime Very ReVerend Reginald A. Redlon as president of ,st. BO,IUlventure Univt;!rs1tY: 'Of ,qctober 4; Warren F. Kuehl of the University of Aleron at the ,inauguration of Elmer Jagow as president of Hiram College on Octob~ 6; FrederiCk Me;rk¢ Harvarli University at the inauguration ., of, Fred~lck Jacks. l·~--""'------:---- '. ~ , .. ", ~ J I, r >jJ ," '" 1967 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PACIFIC COAST BRANCH OFTHE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION .1 j " " ) _ ~ '" 't ,< ~ N-~ ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PACIFIC COAST BRANCH 117 ..I .: i~ t" I" ,? .... ' i PACIFIC COAST BRANCH OFFICERS FOR 1968 ~ \ I, IlRESIDENT SOLOMON'KATZ University of Washington, Seattle, Washington VICE PRESIDENT ,1 .- GERALD T. WHiTE San Francisco State College, San Francisco, California SECRETARY-TREASURER JOHN A. scHUTZ ' University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California MANAGING EDITOR \ 1 JOliN W. CAUGHEY t University of California, Los Angeles, California COUNCIL " .,I' EX OFFICIO THE PRESIDENT, VICE PRESIDENT, SECRETARY-TREASURER, AND MANAGING EDITOR IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT ~ I BRAINERD DYER University of California, Los Angeles. California 'I~; \, '~ ELECTED MEMBERS i II ,J,; ARTHUR BESTOR University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (term expires 1970) " ~ ", ( j J ~ ," 118 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ",.t GORDON CRAIG Stanford University, Stanford, California (term expires 1968) LAWRENCE A. HARPER University of California, Berkeley, California (term expires 1969) JOHN H. KEMBLE Pomona College, Claremont. California (term expires 1968) T. A. LARSON University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming (term expires 1969) SAMUEL C. McCULLOCH University of CalifOrnia, Irvine, California (term expires 1970) JOHN H. McGLOIN University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (term expires 1970) H. BREIT MELENDY San jose College, San jose, California (term expires 1969) BENJAMiN SAcks Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona (term expires 1968) W. TURRENTINE JACKSON University of California, Davis. California (term expires 1970) .. \ L . , 1. ,. '-If ; ~ < -, , ~ 1, ANNUAL REPORT OF 1HE PACIFIC COAST BRANCH ... j } f : } 1 d I ! ' .r ) (0' .; ", I ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1967 The sixtieth annual convention Of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association met at Stanford University on 28, 29, and 30 August 1967. Approximately 800 people attended the sessions, cOming from nearly every part of the United States and Canada, A half dozen historians journied from places as distant as Japan and the United Kingdom. The Pacific Coast Branch membership is currently approaching two thousand. The annual program was distributed to nearly 2700 historians across the United States and Canada. The program numbered fifty-two pages and was patronized by twenty-four advertisers, One. hundred and thirty-fOur people participated in the thirty-one sessions. About one third were drawn from outside Branch territory. Joining with the Branch were five other history organizations: the American Colonists of the San Francisco Bay Region, the American Studies Association of Northern California, the Conference on British Studies, the Institute of American History, anf the Service Center for Teachers of History. At the business meeting of the ASSOCiation, President Brainerd Dyer appointed a special committee to select a new managing editor of the Pacific Historical Review, to replace John W, Caughey who is retiring after nearly thirty years Of service on the Review. The committee is chaired by Professor Wilbur Jacobs of the University of California, Santa Barbara, President Dyer also announced that the Louis Knott Koontz Memorial Award for 1966 was given to Gerald White of San Francisco State College for his "The Case of the Salted Sample: A California Oil Industry Skeleton," The article was published in May 1966 issue of the Pacific Historical Review. The Pacific Coast Branch Award was presented to Professor Willard Wolfe of the University of California, Riverside, for his "From Radicalism to Socialism: Men and Ideas in the Formation of English Socialist Theories, 1881-1889." The manuscript is being " published by Yale University Press, I The Secretary-Treasurer announced that the annual subvention by the American .( Historical Association was increased to five hundred dollars. At the same time, convention fees were raised to three dollars, The additional revenue will insure financial solvency. On the whole, the financial condition of the Pacific Coast I; Branch was good, even with rising printing and secretarial costs. The annual pro':' gram was prepared for mailing by Western Air Lines whose courtesy relieved the Pacific Coast Branch of a substantial labor charge. ! The Association reaffirmed its policy of meeting on university campuses and accepted, therefore, the invitation of Santa Clara University to be the host of its 1968 convention. It selected 28, 29, and 30 August for the meeting dates. Professor W, Turrentine Jackson of the University of California, Davis, was named program chairman of the convention. 6 December 1967 John A. Schutz, Secretary-Treasurer , ' 1'J 119 "i ! t 1 < ~t '" . 'f 120 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION .r FINANCIAL STA1'ElIENT, 1967 Balance, January 1967 ...... ~ ...... $2,256.46 American Historical Assn. Bubvention ...... 4 '" ...... 500.00 Advertising in Annual Program ••••••••••• ; •••••••••••.••••••••••••••••••••••••••.••••..•.•••••. 1,868.30 " /' Fees for publishing PHR articles ...... 75.00 , ~jo- Registration fees at Stanford Convention ...... 2,142.24 , Convention advertising ...... 0 ...... 0 ...... 490.00 "" Total ••••••••••••••• ... i .... ;.. ~t...... • ...... $7,332.00 Expenditures: Printing 1%7 Annual Program ••••••••••.••••••• , ••••••.•••••••••••••..••••.•••.••.•• $1,995.00 l/aillng of 1%7 programs ••••••••• '•••••••••••••• , •••••••••'...... 250.00 Secretarial M,.sistance ...... -.:~ ..•.... ,..... , ...... !' ••••••••••• '0 •••• ;0-..... SO.OO )lisc .. Program expenses...... 150.00 Supplieff for 1967 program •••••••••• ; •••••••••••••••••• ~ •••.••••••••••••• , • • • • • • • • • • 43.25 Praootion of 1968 program••••••••••••••••••••• , ••••••• ;...... •.•••••••••••••••••• 45.00 Pacific Coast Branch Alfard...... 200.00 !lail preparation ror 1968 program ••••.•••••••••••••••••••••..•••••••••••••.••••'..... 35.00 Binding of PHR office copy •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••._. • • • • • • 6.00 Travel expenditures ...... "...... "' ...... ,...... 53.75 Printing llise •••••• ; •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• '... ••.••• 65.00 Insurance ••••••• " ...... " ...... ~ ...... ~ $2,928.00 Balance, 6 Deceniber 1%7 ...... ' ~ ...... $4,404.00 THE LOllIS KIIO'IT KOONTZ IIEIilRIAL FUND Balo.nce, 1 January 1967 •••••••••.•••••••••• ·•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••.•.••••••••••..••. ·• $2,831. 87 >Interest from invested funda •••••••••• ~...... ••••••••••••• lU.62 Total ...... •••.• ~ ...... $2,945.49 Expenditures : Annual Award ••••••••.•.•• ; •.••.••••••.•••••••••••••• •..•..••.•.. $ 100.00 100.00 Total~ 6 December 1%7 ...... ; •••....•.•.••..•.•...... • $2,84!J.49 Jolm A. Schutz, Secretary-Treasurer , ., (