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.
![]() | This literature-related list is
incomplete; you can help by
adding missing items. |
The following journals, magazines, and literary periodicals are not peer-reviewed (or are peer-reviewed but without a significant focus on history).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.
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.
Also see journals by region.
Literature
Music
African American
American Indian/Native American
Asian American
See also North Eurasia (Russia, Siberia).
Also see East Asia.
Possibly belongs under Technology: Media.
Includes historiography and literary and social theory as applied to history.
These journals publish exclusively or primarily in languages other than English.
Does not include journals that still publish under new names.
The following may be peer-reviewed, but I can't tell yet.
This is a Wikipedia
user page. This is not an encyclopedia article or the talk page for an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user in whose space this page is located may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia. The original page is located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alarob/HistoryJournals. |
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.
![]() | This literature-related list is
incomplete; you can help by
adding missing items. |
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.
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.
Also see journals by region.
Literature
Music
African American
American Indian/Native American
Asian American
See also North Eurasia (Russia, Siberia).
Also see East Asia.
Possibly belongs under Technology: Media.
Includes historiography and literary and social theory as applied to history.
These journals publish exclusively or primarily in languages other than English.
Does not include journals that still publish under new names.
The following may be peer-reviewed, but I can't tell yet.
This is a Wikipedia
user page. This is not an encyclopedia article or the talk page for an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user in whose space this page is located may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia. The original page is located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alarob/HistoryJournals. |