#40157

                         RECORDS OF THE
                    GRADUATE HISTORY SOCIETY

                             in the

             University Archives and Records Service
           University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
                    Wilson Library, CB# 3926
                   Chapel Hill, North Carolina
                           27514-8890

                           April 1992

     The Graduate History Society at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill was organized as the Graduate History
Club in the spring of 1952, at the same time that the campus
chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the national honorary history
fraternity, was formed.  Membership in the Society was open to
all Department of History graduate students and faculty members. 
Its purpose was "to stimulate intellectual and social fellowship
among history students at the University and to build up an
esprit de corps that shall bind them together in their
professional careers."  Activities of the Society included
discussions of student concerns at monthly meetings, guest
lectures, seminars, and annual social functions such as picnics
and student-faculty teas.

     The records of the Society include financial information,
membership lists, correspondence with potential lecturers,
scattered minutes of Society meetings, and material on the
Society's activities.  The arrangement is chronological by fiscal
year: 1952 (July)-1953 (June) through fiscal year 1977-1978. 
There are no records for the 1953-1954 fiscal year.