[2] Janulaitis was a member of the Lithuanian Scientific Society and attempted to establish its history section in 1920, but these efforts failed.
[3] The Lithuanian Historical Society identified four key areas of activities: organizing lectures, conferences, meetings; publishing journals, books, etc.
[4] Two society members (Janulaitis and Zenonas Ivinskis) participated at the 8th International Congress of Historical Sciences in Zürich in 1938.
[3] The society was also invited to contribute to the annual International Bibliography of Historical Sciences, but the response was sluggish.
Most of the members were either arrested or deported by the Soviets, or fled from Lithuania at the end of World War II.
[6] Historians who immigrated to the United States established the Lithuanian Historical Society (Lietuvių istorijos draugija) which was active in 1956–1989.
[1] However, the society felt that it should work on academic studies and historical facts, and did not focus on public or popular history.
Particularly lively discussions were held concerning one-volume book on the history of Lithuania edited by Adolfas Šapoka.
[6] The older generation of historians argued that specialized monographs on specific topics should be published first before a synthesis could be made.
[8] In 1936, Zenonas Ivinskis and Adolfas Šapoka – historians of the younger generation – proposed to revive and modernize the journal based on the examples of German Historische Zeitschrift or Polish Kwartalnik Historyczny, however it was not accomplished.
[3] Zigmantas Kiaupa, Ingė Lukšaitė, and Egidijus Aleksandravičius [lt] initiated the restoration of the society in 1988.