Looking backward and looking forward : perspectives on social science history / edited by Harvey J. Graff ... [and others].

Includes papers originally presented at the Social Science History Association's annual meeting in Pittsburgh, 26-29 October 2000, marking its 25th anniversary. The program was dedicated to the theme: "Looking backward and looking forward : perspectives on social science history."

Includes bibliographical references.

Presidential address 2000 : the shock of the "'new' (histories)" : social science histories and historical literacies / Harvey J. Graff -- Twenty-five years later : SSHA in the eyes of its founding spirits / Allan Bogue ... [and others] -- Looking backward and looking forward : social science history at 2000, critical perspectives / Andrew Abbott ... [and others] -- Worlding history / Daniel A. Segal -- The evolution of the Social Science History Association meetings 1976-1999 / Richard H. Steckel -- Historical demography and family history / James Z. Lee, with the help of Richard Steckel -- Changing conceptions of race and racial inequality / Michael K. Brown -- Literacy as social science history : its past and future, a roundtable / Harvey J. Graff ... [and others] -- The event of place in historical sociology / Richard Biernacki -- Southern perspectives on historical social science : summaries of presentations and discussion / Akhil Gupta, Fernando Coronil, Farshad Araghi -- New directions in historical social science : summaries of presentations and discussion / Ann Stoler and Dale Tomich.