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George Washington Ochs Oakes created Current History and the first issue appeared on the 12th of December 1914. He established the publication to cover World War I as it unfolded while recording history in real time.
Joseph Hilton Smyth was convicted of acting as agents for the Japanese government without registering with the State Department in connection with his broader publishing activities. The conviction occurred shortly after he bought other magazines such as The Living Age and The North American Review during his brief ownership period.
Contributing editors include Catherine Boone from The London School of Political Science and Economics, Holly Case from Brown University, and Uri Dadush from Bruegel. Other scholars listed work at institutions including Harvard University, Stanford University, Yale University, and Georgetown University.
Current History publishes monthly from September through May each year with seven issues focusing on specific world regions including China and East Asia. Additional regional issues cover Russia and Eurasia, the Middle East, Latin America, Europe, South Asia, and Africa alongside global trends or special themes.
Members of the Redmond family have owned the magazine since 1942 with Daniel Mark Redmond serving as the current publisher. The Journal Citation Reports listed Current History with an impact factor of 0.127 in 2014 placing it 149th out of 161 journals in the category Political Science.