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The article discusses approaches to business history. It informs that business history as a historical discipline dates only from the late 1920's. It further adds that the practitioners of social science should be better acquainted with the nature of business histories with regard to content, quality and quantity. Business histories are complex and run the, gamut from sound scholarly works to those, which should be left. The business historian is fortunate in having at his command two excellent bibliographical studies. Business history needs to do much to put its own house in order, but it also needs the understanding and support of all the social sciences. Development in all areas, economics, sociology, psychology, history and business administration, are intimately connected with the ramifications of business enterprise as a catalytic agent in society. As a scholarly discipline business history perhaps offers the greatest potential for the utilization of interdepartmental social science analysis.

The article presents news about the development in the field of education. Roy L. McPherson resigned as secretary-treasurer of the Association. The Executive Council has elected Leon C. Meggison of Louisiana State University to serve as secretary-treasurer for the unexpired term. The University of Texas inaugurated with the academic year 1954-55 a Bachelor of Arts degree program in Eastern European Studies. A student may concentrate in Eastern European Studies while meeting requirements for a B.A. degree in economics, geography, government, or history. Departments of anthropology, geology, and sociology will offer related courses. Vol Gene Edmondson returned to his professorship in accounting at the University of Oklahoma following a year's leave of absence. During that time he served as a consultant to the Oklahoma State Hospital Association. George Fair, Louisiana State University, has been promoted to assistant professor of accounting. N. G. Sullivan, of the accounting division of the School of Business Administration; North Texas State College, is on leave of absence during the summer of 1954 and the long session of 1954-55 to continue work toward a doctorate at the University of Texas.

The article presents information about various developments in the field of social sciences from the south western part of the U.S. The Louisiana State University Press has announced the publication of the book "Isaac Franklin: Slave Trader and Planter," by Wendall H. Stephenson of the History Department, Louisiana State University. Lansing B. Bloom, Associate Professor of History, University of New Mexico has been given a leave of absence to study the material on Adolph F. Bandelier, noted Southwest ethnologist, preparatory to commemorating the centennial of his birth. "Continuity in History: The Russian Mir," by Benjamin Sacks was published in the spring issue of the journal "New Mexico Business Review." The Department of Anthropology and the Department of Sociology of the University of Oklahoma have been combined into a Department of Anthropology and Sociology. Willard Z. Park, formerly of Northwestern University, has been appointed head of the new department, and Professor of Anthropology and Sociology. The School of Social Work of the University of Oklahoma was admitted to membership in the American Association of Schools of Social Work at the meeting of that Association in Seattle, Washington on June 29.

A list of articles related to American history that were published in several journals are presented including "A Study of Research Topics for Advanced Degrees in California History," by Pamela Bleich and "Guide to Materials for the History of the United States in the Principal Archives of Mexico."

Suggests a Third-World perspective on the writing of United States history for the 1970s. Controversies in teaching history; Views of historian Thomas A. Bailey; Approach adopted by Herbert E. Bolton, another historian.

This article focuses on the book "Studies in History and Jurisprudence," by James Bryce. In this work the author has collected sixteen essays connected largely by a comparison of the institutions and development of Rome and of Great Britain. The striking similarities between the Roman and British Empires, and the effects of colonial experiences upon their internal development, are portrayed most interestingly and instructively. The classification of constitutions into Flexible and Rigid is substituted for the orthodox division into Written and Unwritten. The Flexible Constitution is one that can be changed by the same authority, acting in the usual manner, which makes or changes other Iaws, as in Great Britain.