List of history journals

Summary

This list of history journals presents representative notable academic journals pertaining to the field of history and historiography. It includes scholarly journals listed by journal databases and professional associations such as: JSTOR, Project MUSE, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association,[1] Goedeken (2000),[2] or are published by national or regional historical societies, or by major scholarly publishers (such as Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, the University of Chicago Press and Taylor & Francis). It does not include many of the world's 5000 journals devoted to local history or highly specialized topics. This list is a compilation and not one based on an exhaustive examination and judgment of quality.

Historische Zeitschrift
first issue 1859

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Classical edit

Modern and contemporary edit

Comparative and world edit

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Africa edit

Egypt edit

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East Asia edit

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Australasia and Oceania edit

Europe edit

Middle Ages edit

Britain edit

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Ireland edit

Eastern Europe and Balkans edit

Nordic Europe edit

Western Europe edit

Latin America and the Caribbean edit

Middle East edit

United States edit

Canada edit

By topic edit

Architectural edit

Archives edit

Business, labor and economics edit

Demography and family edit

Ethnic and racial studies edit

Food history edit

Genocide edit

Ideas and historiography edit

International relations and diplomatic edit

Legal edit

Maritime edit

Media and books edit

Military edit

Politics and public policy edit

Religion edit

Science and technology edit

Social edit

Teaching and methods edit

Urban edit

Women and gender studies edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ The American Historical Society's Directory of Journals. historians.org.
  2. ^ Goedeken, Edward A. (2002). "Journals of the Century in Modern History". In Stankus, Tony (ed.). Journals of the Century. New York: Haworth Press. pp. 243–270. ISBN 978-0-7890-1133-6.

Further reading edit

  • Dalton, Margaret Stieg, and Laurie Charnigo. "Historians and their information sources." College & Research Libraries (2004) 65#5 pp. 400–425. online
  • Henson, Kenneth T. "Writing for professional journals." Phi Delta Kappan 80.10 (1999): 780+. online
  • Hérubel, Jean-Pierre VM. "Acknowledging Clio's lesser children: The importance of journals for historical research and scholarship." Journal of Scholarly Publishing (2008) 39#3 pp: 241–256.
  • Hérubel, Jean-Pierre VM. "The nature of three history journals: A citation experiment." Collection Management 12.34 (1990): 57–67.
  • Hérubel, Jean-Pierre VM, and Edward A. Goedeken. "Trends in historical scholarship as evidenced in the American Historical Review: 1896–1990." Serials Review (1993) 19#2 pp: 79–84.
  • Kitchens, Joel D. "Clio on the Web: An Annotated Bibliography of Select E-Journals for History" Perspectives on History (Feb 2000) online
  • Lingelbach, Gabriele. "The Institutionalization and Professionalization of History in Europe and the United States." in The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 4: 1800–1945 4 (2011): 78+ online
  • Stankus, Tony, and Edward A. Goedeken. "Journals of the Century in Modern History" in Journals of the Century (Haworth Press, 2002) excerpt
  • Stieg, Margaret F. The origin and development of scholarly historical periodicals (University Alabama Press, 1986)

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