中国美国史研究会第三届年会于1982年6月2——8日在苏州市召开,各高等院校、研究等单位共八十四名代表与会,提交学术论文六十八篇。这次年会着重就以下五个问题进行了探讨。一、关于美国独立战争的成就。有的同志认为除了实现独立外,还取得了涉及教育、刑法等方面一系列的资产阶级民主成果,尤要者为赢得一部基本上沿用至今的联邦宪法。美国革命有其明显的局限性,但革命成果却能长期保存下来,这是因为: The third annual meeting of the China American History Research Association was held in Suzhou on June 2-8, 1982. A total of 84 representatives from institutions of higher learning and research attended the symposium, and 68 academic papers were submitted. The annual meeting focused on the following five issues were discussed. First, on the achievements of the American Revolutionary War. Some comrades think that in addition to realizing independence, they have also made a series of bourgeois democratic achievements in education and criminal law, especially those winning a federal constitution which has been basically used up to now. The U.S. revolution has its own obvious limitations, but the revolutionary achievements can be preserved for a long time because: