From Cal Tech to York: A Progress Report on the Anglo-American Conferences on History Teaching, 1973-74.

HISTORY in the hands of historians is not what it used to be." This aphorism offered at the outset by Lynn White, Jr. of UCLA could have served equally well as the terse conclusion of the one hundred teachers of history from schools and colleges within the United Kingdom and the United States at the end of their joint workshop last August.' The first phase of a continuing experiment in international cooperation, this workshop took place at the California Institute of Technology and the Henry E. Huntington Library, and ended with