In the last two decades of the twentieth century, the research and teaching of medieval history in the USA has experienced a radical transformation. These changes have taken place along a whole range of different
perspectives: How to undertake research, methodology, historiographical traditions and their overthrow, new thematic approaches, new geographical areas of research, and the ideological content. My brief presentation seeks to summarize these different historiographical patterns and to outline the nature of the transformations that have taken place in the US over the last twenty-five years, as well as attempting to forecast the ares of development of the research and teaching of medieval
history on the early decades of the twentieth-first century.

An important component of my presentation is to disccuss, in some detail, the evolution of recent research and teaching of Spanish medieval history in the USA; from its marginalized position within the larger field of medieval studies to its recent success as one of the areas drawing the
greatest interest among students.