Editors' note.

It is with great pleasure that we introduce our next to the first issue of the Journal of Women's History. As we write this brief introduction, Women's History month is just underway in the United States and, as with many of you, we find our days filled with prelections films, reading groups, community incidents and travel. But this year, women's history will also have an opportunity to shine in June--about the time this issue reaches your mailboxes--as many of us approach on Scripps College in Claremont, California to attend the Thirteenth Berkshire conversation on the History of Women Organized