Each issue ran 20-50 pages, with informal teaching tips, evaluations of textbooks, and short thematic essays by Notre Dame professors.

[2] In 1967 Notre Dame history Professor Leon Bernard transformed the bulletin into a national quarterly journal under the current title.

In 1972 Professor Eugene L. Asher brought it to coordinating faculty members at the Department of History at California State University, Long Beach,[1] and built a large staff and attracted essays from prominent scholars.

Asher set up the Society for History Education as the official publisher outside the university chain of command, and it was the vehicle for applying for major federal grants for conferences.

[3] The journal has articles on history teaching primarily at the undergraduate level, as well as historiography covering a full range of historical topics.