For an historical essay I am writing on economic history in the economics department at U. of Chicago, I would like to know more about when economic history course requirements were first introduced at both the graduate and undergraduate level in Economics Departments in the United States. I am also interested in the arguments that would have been put forward at the time for these requirements. Can anyone provide any guidance on these issues? I see this as an issue in the curricular history in the teaching of economics at the university level in the U.S. So I am hoping that historians of economics could help with my query. This is why I am posting it to the HES list. My interest is in the positive questions of when and why economic history requirements were introduced in university economics programs in the U.S. not the normative question of whether these requirements are desirable or should be reinstated. While I am interested in these issues for the U.S. generally, I am particularly interested in the case of the University of Chicago Department of Economics. So any comments on the Chicago case would be particularly welcome. Thanks, David Mitch University of Maryland Baltimore County