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History journals

  • The Historical JournalThe Historical Journal has been shaping how scholars understand the past for over a century, but it began with a single editor and a very specific address…
  • Journal of Genocide ResearchThe Journal of Genocide Research arrived in 1999, staking out space for serious academic inquiry into one of humanity's darkest subjects.
  • The International History ReviewThe International History Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal built around two connected subjects, the history of international relations and the…
  • The English Historical ReviewThe English Historical Review printed its first issue in 1886, and it has not stopped since. That unbroken run makes it the oldest surviving English-language…
  • The Journal of Modern HistoryThe Journal of Modern History launched in 1929 with a mandate that few academic publications have held so steadily: to make sense of Europe from the age of…
  • Past & Present (journal)Past and Present, the British historical journal, arrived in 1952 with a subtitle that announced its ambitions plainly: A Journal of Scientific History.
  • The American Historical ReviewThe American Historical Review has been called the premier journal of American history in the world, yet its origins trace to a meeting in December 1894 when…
  • The Historian (journal)The Historian is a history journal with roots going back to 1938, published on behalf of Phi Alpha Theta, the history honor society.
  • Speculum (journal)Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies has been asking questions about the medieval world since 1926, the year Edward Kennard Rand brought it into existence.
  • Journal of World HistoryThe Journal of World History launched in 1990 with a simple but ambitious premise: history does not stop at the borders of nations or civilizations. Jerry H.
  • Journal of the History of IdeasThe Journal of the History of Ideas was founded in 1940 by two scholars who believed that ideas themselves had a history worth tracing.
  • Journal of Contemporary HistoryThe Journal of Contemporary History arrived in 1966 with a simple but ambitious premise: that the recent past, stretching from 1930 to the present, deserved…