Despite recent progress in delineating the star formation history
of the Universe, many of the most basic questions about how galaxies
of different morphological types form and evolve remain unanswered. 
Further progress can be most easily made by studying the resolved
properties of distant galaxies. Key issues include the assembly
history of field elliptical galaxies, the dynamical history of
spiral disks and the role of the abundant population of faint
irregulars. In this non-specialist talk, I will explore each of
these problems using joint redshift and Hubble Space Telescope
datasets in the context of hierarchical models for structure formation.