Society for the History of Discoveries

.Society for the History of Discoveries (ma ọ bụ SHD), tọrọ ntọala na 1960, bụ mba ụwa, United States, nzukọ hibere iji kpalite mmasị na nkuzi, nyocha, na ibipụta akụkọ ihe mere eme nke nchọpụta ala.  Ndị otu ya gụnyere ndị sitere na ngalaba agụmakwụkwọ dị iche iche yana ndị na-edebe akwụkwọ akụkọ, ndị ọkà mmụta na-abụghị ndị mmekọ, na ndị nkịtị nwere mmasị na akụkọ ntolite.  SHD na-akwalite ihe mgbaru ọsọ ya site n'ịhazi nzukọ kwa afọ nke a na-enye akwụkwọ nyocha nke ndị ọkà mmụta dị mkpa, site na ibipụta akwụkwọ akụkọ ndị ọkà mmụta na akụkọ banyere nchọpụta ala, na site n'inye onyinye kwa afọ maka akwụkwọ nyocha ụmụ akwụkwọ n'ọhịa.  Society bụ ọgbakọ 501(c)(3) anaghị akwụ ụgwọ na US nke otu ndị otu kansụl na ndị isi ọrụ afọ ofufo na akwụghị ụgwọ na-elekọta.  Otu onye ghe oghe nye ndị niile nwere mmasị na akụkọ ihe mere eme nke ala.  Ọ na-ebipụta akwụkwọ akụkọ ọkara afọ, Terrae Incognitae.[1]
thumb|Dennis Reinhartz (professor of history), Charles Lowry (UTA Library Director), and Jenkins Garrett in 1986; lifetime membership in the Society for the History of Discoveries being granted to Garrett
.  Enwere ike ịchọta mmalite nke Society for the History of Discoveries (SHD) laa azụ n'oge okpomọkụ nke 1960 na ogbako agụmakwụkwọ na Lisbon, Portugal, nke mere ememe ncheta afọ nke ọnwụ Prince Henry the Navigator.  Ndị ọkà mmụta America bụ John (Jack) Parker, Thomas (Thom) Goldstein, na Vsevolod (Steve) Slesarev, kpebisiri ike na ekwesịrị inwe nzukọ na United States nke ga-agba ume nyocha n'ime akụkọ ihe mere eme nke nyocha na nchọpụta.  Mgbe e mesịrị, na Disemba 1960, Goldstein tinyere ọkwa na nzukọ New York City nke American Historical Association na-akpọ ndị nwere mmasị ka ha zute n'otu ụlọ oriri na ọṅụṅụ dị nso.  Ndị mmadụ bịara oriri nri ehihie Disemba 1960 mere onwe ha dị ka onye isi oche maka otu afọ, wee malite ịhazi SHD.

## Organization
During most of its history, the Society was governed by three elected officers and six members of Council.  The officers were President, Vice President, and Secretary-Treasurer.  In 2006, the by-laws were changed to add another officer. Because the demands on the Secretary-Treasurer had grown, the office of Secretary-Treasurer was divided into two positions, Executive Secretary and Treasurer.  Duties are found at the Society's Articles of Association, available via the Society website. Council meets formally at the annual meeting, and during the year via email and other technologies.

A paper by Commodore Pieter Verhoog was read by John Parker at the Columbus, Ohio, annual meeting in 1980 which interested those in attendance so much that a special session on the Columbus 1492 landfall was scheduled at the next annual meeting in Athens, Georgia.  In addition to focusing on the Columbus landfall at the meeting, John Parker and Louis De Vorsey were charged with producing a special issue dedicated to the first landfall, and it was published in 1983 as Volume 15.  It was re-published in 1985 by Wayne State University Press as a book titled *In the Wake of Columbus: Islands and Controversy*.  One important and enduring result of the scholarship represented in Volume 15 was a highly received new translation of Columbus’ *Diario* by two Society members, Oliver Dunn and James Kelley, which was published to acclaim by the University of Oklahoma Press in 1991.