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Also see History journal (which badly needs expanding) and List of history journals. This list may be destined for the Wikidata project.

The following is a partial list of academic journals in history. There are thousands of history journals currently being published, and many more have been published at various points in the past. The list given here is deliberately selective, and contains the most influential, currently active, peer-reviewed journals in each of several fields of history.

The list may serve as a resource for Wikipedia editors and members of that WikiProject on sharing resources.

History is sometimes treated as one of the humanities, and sometimes as a social science.

Online repositories are keyed this way: E (EBSCO), J (JSTOR), M (Project MUSE)

N.B. Citing one of these works as an authority does not exempt a statement from all criticism. Newer findings of fact generally supersede older ones, but a single historian's assertion may not reflect consensus, even in a refereed publication. Some refereed journals assume a deliberately doctrinaire, oppositional, or reactionary stance that may not be definitive. Some have not been refereed journals throughout their publishing history.

N.B. There are many history magazines (such as American Heritage) that are not academic journals. There is an incomplete list of less authoritative periodicals just below.

Some qualified academic journals are not listed here because they have only begun publishing in the last year or two.

Less authoritative periodicals

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The following journals, magazines, and literary periodicals are not peer-reviewed (or are peer-reviewed but without a significant focus on history). This doesn't mean they may not be cited, of course. But when it comes to historical information, they are not as authoritative as the sources listed below this section. Therefore, historical information in these periodicals should be treated skeptically and should not be presumed to be based on reliable sources.

Alabama Heritage • Alaska Quarterly Review • American Heritage • American Legion Magazine * American Scholar * Annual Register • Arizona Highways • Aroostook Review * Atlantic Monthly • Baltimore Review * Bellingham Review * Better Homes and Gardens * Black Scholar * Black Warrior Review * Bookforum * Boston Review • Callaloo * Calyx * Chatleaine * Chattahoochee Review * Chicago Review * Cimarron Review • Claremont Review of Books • Colorado Review * Commentary • The Common Review * Cortland Review * Cosmopolitan * Country Living * The Crisis * Critical Inquiry * Denver Quarterly * Dunes Review * Ebony * The Economist * Elle * Emerson Review * English Journal * Esquire * Family Circle * FHM * Florida Review * Forbes * Foreign Affairs • Foreign Policy In Focus • Foreign Service Journal • Fortune • Fulcrum * The Furnace * The Gamut * Georgetown Review * Georgia Review * Gettysburg Review • Glamour * Good Housekeeping * GQ * Green Mountains Review * Greensboro Review * Guideposts * Gulf Coast * Gulf Stream Magazine * Habitus: A Diaspora Journal * Harper's Bazaar * Harper's Magazine • Harvard Advocate * Harvard Review * Hello! * History Today • History Review Magazine • Horn Book Magazine * House & Garden * House Beautiful * Hudson Review * In These Times • Inc. * India Today * Indiana Review * Insight • InStyle * Iowa Review * Jewish Observer • Jewish Review of Books * Journal of the West • Kartika Review * Kenyon Review * Lake Effect * Lapham's Quarterly * Legion * Literary Review * London Review of Books • Long River Review * Los Angeles Review of Books * Maclean's * Marie Claire * Massachusetts Review * Maxim * Men's Health * Michigan Quarterly Review * Minnesota Review * Mississippi Quarterly * Modern Philology * Monthly Anthology * Monthly Review • Mother Jones • The Nation • National Geographic * The National Interest • National Journal • National Review • National Trust Magazine * Naugatuck River Review * Nebraska Review * New Criterion * New Delta Review * New England Review * The New Republic • New York Review of Books • New York Times Book Review • The New Yorker • Newsweek • The Objective Standard • OK! * Paris Review * Partisan Review • People * Playboy * Policy Review • Psychologies * Reader's Digest * Reason • Rolling Stone * Saga Magazine * Sewanee Review • Smithsonian * Sojourners Magazine • Southern Partisan • Tatler * Texas Observer • Tikkun • Time • Vanity Fair * Vogue * Weekly Standard • Washington Monthly • Washington Report on Middle East Affairs * Wired * Yale Review

These are examples. This list cannot be complete. For example, the following periodical categories should also be treated skeptically when it comes to historical claims: business magazines, computer magazines, entertainment magazines (all kinds), news magazines, political or satirical magazines, religious magazines, scientific journals, shelter magazines, trade journals, etc.

Lists of history journals

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Leading journals

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The "most influential" history journals in English, with rounded impact factors (2010, 5-year average). The impact factors are based on citations in selected scientific and social science journals.

World history

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  • Canadian Journal of History [5]
  • The Historian, published by Phi Alpha Theta, Inc. [6]
  • The Historical Journal (1958- )[7], successor to the Cambridge Historical Journal (1923-1957); published by Cambridge University Press J
  • The History Teacher
  • International History Review [8]
  • Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History [9] (2000- )
  • Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History [10] (1972- ), focusing on the British Empire, Commonwealth, and related or comparable colonial histories.
  • Journal of Interdisciplinary History
  • Left History [11]
  • Radical History Review [12]

History by period

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Also see journals by region.

Ancient

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  • American Journal of Ancient History [13] (1976- ), Association of Ancient Historians
  • The Ancient World: A Scholarly Journal for the Study of Antiquity [14] (1978- )
  • Arethusa [15]
  • Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1932- ) J
  • Hesperia Supplements (1937- ) J
  • DE/EN: Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte (1950- ) J
  • Journal of Early Christian Studies [16], journal of the North American Patristics Society
  • The Journal of Hellenic Studies (1880- ) J
  • Journal of Late Antiquity [17]
  • Transactions of the American Philological Association [18]

Medieval

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Early modern

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  • Sixteenth Century Journal (1972- ), successor to Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies (1970-71)

Modern (since ca. 1700)

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  • Eighteenth-Century Studies [19], journal of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Contemporary

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History by region

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Africa

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  • Africa: Journal of the International African Institute [24] (1928- ) J
  • DE/EN: Africa Spectrum (1966- ), pub. by Institute of African Affairs at GIGA (German Institute of Global and Area Studies) J
  • Africa Today [25] (1954- ) J
  • African Economic History (1976- ), formerly African Economic History Review (1974-1975) J
  • African Historical Review [26] formerly Kleio: a Journal of Historical Studies from Africa.
  • African Studies Review [27], journal of the African Studies Association.
  • African Studies Quarterly [28], online refereed journal of the University of Florida Center for African Studies.
  • Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, published by the School of Oriental and African Studies, London
  • International Journal of African Historical Studies (1972- ), successor to African Historical Studies
  • JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies (2001- ) [29], published by Africa Resource Center Inc.
  • Journal of African History [30]
  • Journal of Modern African Studies [31]

Africa regional studies

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Sub-Saharan Africa, African subcontinent
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  • African Affairs [32] (1944- ), formerly Journal of the Royal African Society (1901-1944) J
  • African Studies [33], formerly Bantu Studies
Southern Africa
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  • Journal of Southern African Studies (1974- ) J
Sudan (region)
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  • Sudanic Africa (1990- ) J

African Diaspora

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Cultural studies
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  • Callaloo (1976, 1978- ) J

Americas

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  • American Antiquity, archaeological journal of the Americas.
  • William and Mary Quarterly specializing in colonial and early American history.

North America

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Canada
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  • Acadiensis [34], EN-FR journal of the history of Atlantic Canada. J
  • Canadian Ethnic Studies/Études ethniques au Canada [35] EN-FR (1969-)
United States of America
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  • American Quarterly [36], journal of the American Studies Association. J
  • Journal of American History (1964- ), successor to the Mississippi Valley Historical Review (1914-1964). J
  • Journal of American Studies [37]
Before 1900
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  • Common-place [38], ”interactive journal of early American life” (2000- )
Cultural studies in the U.S.
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  • American Art (1991- ), journal of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. Formerly Smithsonian Studies in American Art (1987-1990). J
  • American Art Journal (1969-2003?). J

Literature

  • American Literary Realism (1999- ), formerly American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 (1967-1999) J
  • American Literature (1929- ) J
  • Early American Literature (1965- )

Music

  • American Music (1983- ) J
Ethnic studies (U.S.)
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African American

  • African American Review (1992- ), journal of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association. Formerly Negro American Literature Forum (1967-1976) and Black American Literature Forum (1976-1991). J
  • The Black Perspective in Music (1973-1990) J
  • Fire!!! The Multimedia Journal of Black Studies[39] (2011- ), published by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Inspired by Fire!! A Quarterly Devoted to the Younger Negro Artists (1926). J
  • The Journal of African American History (2002- ), successor to The Journal of Negro History (1916-2001) J
  • Journal of Black Studies (1970- ) J
  • The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (1993- ) J
  • The Journal of Negro Education (1932- ) J
  • Lenox Avenue: A Journal of Interarts Inquiry (1995-1999) J
  • Phylon (1940-1956, 1960- ) and The Phylon Quarterly (1957-1959), published by Clark Atlanta University J
  • Transition (1961- ), pub. for the W.E.B. du Bois Institute J

American Indian/Native American

Asian American

Regional history
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  • Appalachian Journal (1972- ) J
  • Gulf South Historical Review, formerly Gulf Coast Historical Review (1985-2006) [40], defunct
  • The Journal of Southern History (1935- ) pub. by the Southern Historical Association J
  • Journal of the Southwest (1987- ), formerly Arizona and the West (1959-1986) J
  • The New England Quarterly (1928- ) J
  • Ohio Valley History [41] (2001- ), successor to The Filson Club History Quarterly (1926-2002).
  • The Pacific Northwest Quarterly (1936- ), formerly The Washington Historical Quarterly (1906-1935) J
  • The Southwestern Historical Quarterly (1912- ), formerly The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association (1897-1912) J
  • Washington History (1989- ), formerly Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C. (1897-1989) J
  • The Western Historical Quarterly (1970- ) J
Religion in the U.S.
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State historical journals (refereed)
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  • Alabama Review [43] (1948- )
  • Alaska History
  • The Arkansas Historical Quarterly (1942- ) J
  • Boom: A Journal of California (2011- ) J
  • California History [44] (1978- ), formerly California Historical Quarterly (1971-1977), California Historical Society Quarterly (1922-1970) J
  • The Florida Historical Quarterly (1937- ), formerly The Florida Historical Society Quarterly (1925-1937), Publications of the Florida Historical Society (1908-1924) J
  • The Georgia Historical Quarterly (1917- ) J
  • Indiana Magazine of History (1913- ), formerly The Indiana Quarterly Magazine of History (1905-1913) J
  • Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1908-1984, 1998- ), also Illinois Historical Journal (1984-1998) J
  • Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association (1960- ) J
  • Massachusetts Historical Review (1999- ), formerly Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society (1791-1997) J
  • Michigan Historical Review (1986- ), formerly The Great Lakes Review (1978-1985) J
  • Minnesota History (1925- ), formerly Minnesota History Bulletin (1915-1924) J
  • Montana: The Magazine of Western History (1955- ), formerly The Montana Magazine of History (1951-1955) J
  • Oregon Historical Quarterly (1926- ), formerly The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society (1900-1926) J
  • Pennsylvania History (1934- ) J
  • Pennsylvania Legacies (2001- ) J
  • The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (1877- ) J
  • Register of the Kentucky Historical Society [45] (1903- )
  • The South Carolina Historical Magazine (1952- ), formerly The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine (1900-1951) J
  • Tennessee Historical Quarterly
  • The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (1893- ) J
Misc. topics in U.S. history
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  • American Communist History [46], journal of the Historians of American Communism
  • Reviews in American History [47], reviews of books about U.S. history, including "classics" in the field.

Central and South America

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  • The Americas (1944- ), pub. by Academy of American Franciscan History J
  • Colonial Latin American Historical Review [48]
  • The Hispanic American Historical Review (1918- ) J
  • Journal of Latin American Studies (1969- ) J
  • Latin American Antiquity, archaeological journal.
Mexico
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Circumpolar Region

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  • Acta Borealia [49], "a Nordic journal of circumpolar societies"

Eurasia

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  • DE/EN/RU: Ab Imperio [50], "Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space"; affiliated with American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
  • Europe-Asia Studies (1993- ), formerly Soviet Studies (1949-1992) J
  • Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History [51] (2000- )
  • Nationalities Papers [52] (1972- ), covering "nationalism, ethnicity, ethnic conflict and national identity in Central Europe, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, the Caucasus, the Turkic world and Central Eurasia."

Asia

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North Eurasia (Russia, Siberia)

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Central and Southwest Asia

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Caucasus
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Iran
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  • IRAN [59] (1963?- ), British Institute of Persian Studies
Turkey
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East Asia

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  • Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
  • Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
  • Journal of Asian Studies (1956-2004), formerly Far Eastern Quarterly (1941-1956)
  • Journal of the American Oriental Society
China
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  • China Journal (1995- ), formerly Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs (1979-1995)
  • China Quarterly
  • Journal of Chinese Military History [60] (2012- )
  • Late Imperial China [61], for Ming and Qing dynasties.
  • Modern China
  • T'oung Pao (1890- )
  • Twentieth-Century China [62] (1997- ), formerly Republican China (1983-1997)
Japan
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  • Journal of Japanese Studies
  • Monumenta Nipponica
Korea
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Europe

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  • Aevum [64] (1927- ) Italian multilingual history and philology journal that publishes three issues per year on ancient, medieval and modern history, respectively. ISSN 00019593 J
  • Contemporary European History [65] (1992- ) on Europe since 1918.
  • Itinerario [66] (1976- ) on European expansion and colonialism, ca. 1550-1950.
  • Journal of Modern History [67] for European cultural, intellectual, and political history since the Renaissance.
  • Renaissance Quarterly (1967- ), successor to Renaissance News (1948-66) and Studies in the Renaissance (1954-74)
Britain and Ireland
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  • Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies (1969- ) J
  • Britannia, archaeological journal on Roman Britain.
  • Journal of British Studies
Continental Europe
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France
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Germany
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Greece and Greek antiquity
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Italy and Roman antiquity
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  • Journal of Roman Studies
Scandinavia
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Eastern/Slavic Europe
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See also North Eurasia (Russia, Siberia).

  • Journal of Baltic Studies (1970- )
  • The Polish Review (1956- )
  • The Russian Review [70] (1941- ) ISSN: 0036-0341 (print), 1467-9434 (online)
  • Russian Studies in History [71] (1962- ) publishes English translations of articles by Russian historians.
  • The Slavic and East European Journal (1957- ) J
  • Slavic Review [72] (1961- ), pub. by Assn. for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; formerly Slavonic Year-Book. American Series (1941), Slavonic and East European Review. American Series (1943-1944), American Slavic and East European Review (1945-1961) J
  • The Slavonic and East European Review (1928- ), formerly The Slavonic Review (1922-1927) J
  • Slovo [73] (1988- ), postgraduate journal of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London

Middle East, North Africa

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  • Antiguo Oriente, multilingual journal on the ancient Middle East.
  • British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (1991- ), formerly Bulletin (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies) (1974-1990) J
  • Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (1921- ), formerly Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem (1919-1921) J
  • Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (1940- ), formerly the Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London (1917-1940) J
  • International Journal of Middle East Studies [74] (1970- ) J
  • Journal of Hellenic Studies on the Hellenic Mediterranean.
  • Journal of Near Eastern Studies for the ancient Near East; successor to The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures (1895-1941), Hebraica (1884-1895) J
  • Journal of the American Oriental Society (1843- ) J
  • Middle East Report (1988- ), formerly MERIP Reports (1971-1985), MERIP Middle East Report (1986-1988), all pub. by Middle East Research and Information Project. J
Arab studies
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Israel and Palestine
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Palestinian archaeology
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  • DE/EN: Zeitschrift des deutschen Palästina-Vereins (1878-1945, 1953-2007) and Beiträge zur biblischen Landes- und Altertumskunde (1949-1951) J

South Asia (Indian subcontinent)

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Pakistan
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  • Pakistan Forum

Southeast Asia

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  • Journal of Southeast Asian Studies [77] (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar/Burma, the Philippines, East Timor, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam).

Pacific

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Also see East Asia.

  • Pacific Affairs (1928- ), formerly News Bulletin (Institute of Pacific Relations)

Australia

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  • Australian Historical Studies

New Zealand

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  • New Zealand Journal of History [78] (1967-)

Anthropology/Ethnology

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  • American Antiquity
  • Ethnohistory

Archaeology

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  • American Journal of Archaeology
  • Historical Archaeology [79] (1967- ), Society for Historical Archaeology
  • Journal of Field Archaeology
  • World Archaeology
  • Regional journals of archaeology include American Antiquity, Britannia, Hesperia (ancient Greece), Journal of Hellenic Studies, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Journal of Roman Studies, Latin American Antiquity.

Art and architecture

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  • Winterthur Portfolio [80]

Economic history

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  • Economic Geography
  • Economic History Review
  • European Review of Economic History [81]
  • Economic Systems [82]
  • Journal of Economic History [83], journal of the Economic History Association.

Business history

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  • Business History Review [84] (1939-), formerly Bulletin of the Business Historical Society (1926-1938)
  • Journal of Economic and Business History (1928-1932)

Finance history

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  • The Accounting Historians Journal (1974- ), published by the Academy of Accounting Historians

Labor history

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Environment & history

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  • Environmental History [85] (1996- ), Forest History Society/American Society for Environmental History

Geography & history

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  • Annals of the Association of American Geographers
  • Economic Geography

Intellectual and cultural history

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  • Journal of the History of Ideas [86]
  • Journal of the History of Philosophy [87]
  • Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas [88]

Education

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  • History of Education Quarterly (1961- ), successor to the History of Education Journal

Law and government

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  • Journal of Policy History [89], especially in the U.S.

Literary history

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Printing and publishing

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Possibly belongs under Technology: Media.

Military history

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  • Journal of Military History (1989- ), successor to Military Affairs (1941-1988), Journal of the American Military Institute (1939-40), Journal of the American Military History Foundation (1938-39)

Philosophy of history

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Includes historiography and literary and social theory as applied to history.

  • History and Theory [94]

Political history, political science

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  • American Journal of Political Science (1973-2009), formerly Midwest Journal of Political Science (1957-1972) J
  • The American Political Science Review (1906- ) J

Religions, history of

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  • The Harvard Theological Review (1908- ) J
  • History of Religions (1961- ) J
  • Journal of Biblical Literature (1890- ), formerly Journal of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis (1881-1888) J
  • The Journal of Religion (1921- ), formerly The Hebrew Student (1882-1883), The Old Testament Student (1883-1889), The Old and New Testament Student (1889-1892), The Biblical World (1893-1920), which merged with The American Journal of Theology (1897-1920) J
  • Numen: International Review for the History of Religions J ISSN 0029-5973, published by the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR).
  • Studies in Religion / Sciences religieuses ISSN 0008-4298, published by Wilfrid Lauruer University Press, Waterloo, Ont., Canada.

Christianity

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Roman Catholicism

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  • The Catholic Historical Review (1915- ) J

Judaism

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  • The Jewish Quarterly Review [95] published by University of Pennsylvania Press. J

Science and technology

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  • British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
  • Bulletin of the History of Medicine [96]
  • Comparative Technology Transfer and Society [97]
  • Isis, journal on the history of science, technology, and medicine; History of Science Society.
  • Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London
  • Osiris, annual journal on science and its cultural influences; History of Science Society.
  • Perspectives in Biology and Medicine [98]
  • Philosophy of Science
  • PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association
  • Science, Technology, and Human Values, absorbing Science and Technology Studies (1986-87), 4S Review (1983-85), Newsletter on Science, Technology, and Human Values (1976-78), and Newsletter of the Program on Public Conceptions of Science (1972-76)
  • Social Studies of Science (1975- ), formerly Science Studies (1971-74)
  • Technology and Culture [99], journal of the Society for the History of Technology.

Social history

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  • Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales FR/EN (1994- ), social history over the long term (longue durée), successor to Annales d'histoire économique et sociale (1929-1939), Annales d'histoire sociale (1939-1942, 1945), Mélanges d’histoire sociale (1942-1944), and Annales. Economies, sociétés, civilisations (1946-1994). ISSN 0395-2649 J
  • Comparative Studies in Society and History
  • Continuity and Change [100]
  • Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth [101], journal of the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth.
  • Journal of Popular Culture, mostly about the United States
  • Past & Present (1952- )

Women's & gender studies

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Journals in languages other than English

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These journals publish exclusively or primarily in languages other than English.

French (FR)

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  • Cahiers d'Études Africaines (1960- ) J
  • Cahiers du Monde russe [104] (1994- ), formerly Cahiers du Monde russe et soviétique (1959-1993)

German (DE)

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Italian (IT)

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  • Africa: Rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione dell’Istituto italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente (1950- ) J
  • Studi Storici, quarterly journal of the Gramsci Institute

Spanish (ES)

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  • Estudios de Asia y Africa (1975- ), formerly Estudios Orientales (1966-1974) J
  • Temas Americanistas [108], for the study of "Andalucía y América: tierra y sociedad". University of Seville. ISSN: 1988-7868

Defunct refereed journals

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Does not include journals that still publish under new names.

  • The Black Perspective in Music (1973-1990) J
  • Electronic Journal of International History (2000-2005) [109]
  • Gulf South Historical Review, formerly Gulf Coast Historical Review (1985-2006) [110]
  • Journal of Economic and Business History (1928-1932)

Refereed student journals

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Unknown status

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The following may be peer-reviewed, but I can't tell yet.

  • Concord Review [113], private organization publishing work by secondary students. No details on selection process (except required $40 check).
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