HTA News, May 1987

The History Teaching Alliance is proud to announce that twenty-seven collabo­rative programs engaging university and secondary school history teachers in year-long seminar series have now been organized in twenty states. This summer these programs will begin their two­ week summer institutes followed by monthly seminar meetings throughout the school year. While many of these collaborative programs will continue their study of the history of the US Constitution in the year ahead, other programs have turned to new fields including topics in Third World, His­panic, American West, modern Europe­an, and English history.

This spring the Alliance national of­fice will relocate to its new headquarters at the University of Florida in Gaines­ville. As reported previously in Perspec­tives, the University of Florida’s Depart­ment of History has invited the Alliance to transfer its operations from the AHA headquarters to Gainesville. The invita­tion and the University’s generous sup­port was accepted by the executive boards of the three sponsoring associa­tions—the AHA, the National Council for the Social Studies, and the Organiza­tion of American Historians.

The Alliance will continue to exist as a joint program of AHA-NCSS-OAH, governed by an Oversight Committee appointed by the three associations. Our sincere appreciation is extended to the members of the Oversight Committee, who are now at the end of their two-year terms, for their guidance and direction so important during the  beginning years of this program: Stanley M. Katz, Princeton University; Paul L. Murphy, University of Minnesota; Clair W. Kel­ler, Iowa State University; Harold M. Hyman, Rice University; and Maeva Marcus, Supreme Court Documentary History Project. At the same time we welcome new appointees to the Com­mittee who will begin their terms this spring. The new AHA representatives are Carl Degler of Stanford University and Mildred Alpern of Spring Valley High School (NY). The new NCSS rep­resentatives are Gregory Figgs of Scott County High School (KY) and Donald H. Bragaw, New York State Education Department (continuing). New appoin­tees from OAH are expected shortly and will be announced in the next issue. The executive directors of AHA, NCSS, and OAH will continue to serve as ex officio members who, along with Kermit L. Hall of the University of Florida and committee chair, make up the Alliance Executive Board.

The Alliance national office will begin its relocation on May 1, 1987. Applica­tion guidelines for 1988–89 are now available and can be obtained by writ­ing: Deborah Welch, Executive Direc­tor, History Teaching Alliance, Depart­ment of History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611.