PHS members include historians, anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, economists, literary scholars, and others interested in international and military affairs, transnational institutions, nonviolence, and movements for peace and social justice. Many teach related courses in universities, colleges, or secondary schools; others are students, peace activists, and members of the general public. Drawn from North America and around the world, PHS members are concerned with making peace research relevant to scholarly disciplines, policy-makers, and their own societies.

The PHS periodically sponsors or cosponsors major conferences, on subjects such as "Peace and Sovereignty"; "War and Society"; and "Historical Perspectives on Engendering War, Peace and Justice." It also participates in conferences sponsored by the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the International Peace Research Association, and the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.

The PHS awards the Charles DeBenedetti Prize (for an outstanding article in peace history) and the Scott Bills Memorial Prize (for an outstanding first book or dissertation in peace history); works with H-Peace; distributes PHS News; and publishes Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research, the major journal in the field.

For more information or to join the PHS online, please visit our website at

www.peacehistorysociety.org. For questions, contact the PHS president, Professor Virginia Williams, at williamsv@winthrop.edu.