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The Journal of American History

Field	Value
title	The Journal of American History
cover	Journal of American History Cover, 1965.gif
former_names	Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
abbreviation	J. Am. Hist.
discipline	American history
editor	Benjamin Irvin
publisher	Oxford University Press (on behalf of the Organization of American Historians)
country	United States
history	1914–present
frequency	Quarterly
impact	1.2
impact-year	2024
ISSN	0021-8723
eISSN	1936-0967
JSTOR	00218723
LCCN	41015235
OCLC	1754428
website	http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/
link1	https://academic.oup.com/jah/issue
link1-name	Online access

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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)

''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)

References

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.

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