A symposium on the use of history in the social sciences curriculum: An introduction

A symposium on the use of history in the social sciences curriculum was held at the 1980 annual meeting of the History of Science Society. It was part of a continuing series of symposia on pedagogical topics sponsored by the Committee on Undergraduate Education of the Society. Here a brief introduction is given to the three papers and the commentary presented on that occasion and published in this issue of this journal.