| This dissertation is an effort to build on the intellectual foundations started by Harold Rai Boozer in his 1960 doctoral thesis. The data in this work relates the activities of historians and social studies educators who through the American Historical Association concerned themselves with school matters. Picking up where Boozer left off, this treatise covers the period from 1956 to 1986.;During the time period under consideration, the American Historical Association established four standing committees on teaching: The Committee on Teaching (1956-1968), The Committee on Teaching in the Schools (1969-1971), The Committee on Teaching (1972-1973) and the Teaching Division (1974 to the Present). Through these bodies the A.H.A. sponsored a significant number of important endeavors such as The Service Center for Teachers of History, The History Education Project, The Faculty Development Program and Project '87 on the Bicennential of the American Constitution. Lastly, the data presented in this dissertation tends to repudiate the common notion that the A.H.A. took no role in school concerns from 1934 to 1986. |
