The constitution for the Social Science History Association was adopted in 1974.

I. Objectives

1. The major purpose of the Social Science History Association is to improve the quality of historical explanation in every manner possible, but particularly by encouraging the selective use and adaptation in historical teaching and research of relevant theories and methods from related disciplines, particularly the social sciences. The Association will seek to achieve this purpose by:
2. Developing a publication program that will encourage and disseminate social science history of high quality devoted to substantive research, to methodological concerns and to curricular development.
3. Organizing conferences, both regional and national, to bring together like-minded historians and other social scientists with interdisciplinary interests. In this respect members of the Association will endeavor to foster those research areas in which work is particularly experimental or path-breaking in nature as well as those which have already attracted considerable numbers of adherents.
4. Encouraging the introduction of the materials of the new social, political and economic history into the undergraduate curriculum, with appropriate concern for the development of teaching methods appropriate to the new course content, at all curricular levels but particularly in college and university introductory courses and in the offerings of junior and community colleges. We are particularly concerned that ways be devised to carry the challenge and exhilaration of the research process into the classroom.
5. Sponsoring or assisting in the development of summer institutes or other training programs to enable historians and other social scientists to learn skills necessary for the various types of interdisciplinary historical research and their presentation in the classroom.
6. Fostering the retrieval and archiving of quantitative historical data for general scholarly use and its processing in data series of wide applicability as well as assisting in the dissemination of such materials for booth research and classroom use.
   Enabling history and the other social sciences to respond better to the growing interest in the historical dimension in various social science disciplines by promoting the evaluation of historical research proposals by fund granting agencies on the basis of the substance of the research problem rather than in terms of the departmental or disciplinary affiliation of the applicants.
7. Working to achieve maximum freedom of access for scholars to data of particular interest to social science historians.
8. Preparing and submitting grant proposals where appropriate to enable the executive officers and council members of the Association to realize the major and subordinate objectives of the Association.
9. Taking any other appropriate action which the members of the Association may believe necessary to achieve the above objectives.
   
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