The Journal of American History

The Journal of American History

Discipline	American history
Language	English
Edited  by	Benjamin Irvin
Publication details
Former name(s)	Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
History	1914–present
Publisher	Oxford University Press (on behalf of the Organization of American Historians) (United States)
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	1.2 (2024)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Am. Hist.
Indexing CODEN (alt  · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR  · NLM (alt) · Scopus  · W&L
ISSN	0021-8723  (print) 1936-0967  (web)
LCCN	41015235
JSTOR	00218723
OCLC  no.	1754428
Links
Journal homepage Online access

Journal offices in Bloomington

The Journal of American History is the quarterly official academic journal of the Organization of American Historians. It covers the field of American history and was established in 1914 as the Mississippi Valley Historical Review, the official journal of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association. After the publication of its fiftieth volume, the recognition of a shift in the direction of the membership and its scholarship led to the name change in 1964.

The journal is headquartered in Bloomington, Indiana, where it has close ties to the History Department at Indiana University.

List of editors

Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association

• Benjamin F. Shambaugh (1907–1914) ^[1]

Mississippi Valley Historical Review

• Clarence W. Alvord (1914–1923)
• Lester B. Shippee (1923–1924)
• Milo M. Quaife (1924–1930)
• Arthur Charles Cole (1930–1941)
• Louis Pelzer (1941–1946)
• Wendell H. Stephenson (1946–1953)
• William C. Binkley (1953–1963)
• Oscar O. Winther (1963–1964)

Journal of American History

• Oscar O. Winther (1964–1966)
• Martin Ridge (1966–1978)
• Lewis Perry (1978–1984)
• Paul Lucas (1984–1985)
• David Thelen (1985–1999)
• Joanne Meyerowitz (1999–2004)
• David Nord (2004–2005)
• Edward T. Linenthal (2005–2016)
• Benjamin H. Irvin (2017—present)

Further reading

• Stieg, Margaret F. (1986). "Geographical Specialization: The Deutsche Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, the Mississippi Valley Historical Review, and the Journal of Southern History". The Origin and Development of Scholarly Historical Periodicals. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. pp. 82–102. ISBN   978-0-8173-0273-3.

External links

• Official website

References

1. Conard, Rebecca. Benjamin Shambaugh and the Intellectual Foundations of Public Hisory. University of Iowa Press, 2002. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt20q2006. Accessed 23 Sept. 2025.