The Journal of American History

Academic journal

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

| 0.684 (2009)
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

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### Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association

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* Benjamin F. Shambaugh (1908–14)

### Mississippi Valley Historical Review

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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 Alabama Press. pp. 82–102\. ISBN 978-0-8173-0273-3.

## References

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## External links

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* Official website