The Journal of Modern History
| Discipline | European History |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1927-present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | quarterly |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | JMH |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0022-2801 |
| Links | |
The Journal of Modern History is an academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press. The JMH is recognized as the leading American journal for the study of European intellectual, political, and cultural history. Its geographical and temporal scope makes it unique: the JMH explores events and movements in specific countries, as well as broader questions that span particular times and places. The JMH covers events from early modern/Renaissance to current events, with a geographical range of the United Kingdom to Russia and the Balkans.
Editors and Editorial Board
The Journal of Modern History is coedited by John W. Boyer and Jan E. Goldstein, professors at the University of Chicago who focus on Central European and French history, respectively. The editorial board consists of ten members serving two-year shifts. The current board consists of:
- Deborah Cohen (Brown University)
- Suzanne Desan (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
- Isabel Virginia Hull (Cornell University)
- Louise McReynolds (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Joan Wallach Scott (Institute for Advanced Study)
- Helmut Walser Smith (Vanderbilt University)
- Dror Wahrman (Indiana University)
- Robert Weinberg (Swarthmore College)
- Lawrence Wolff (New York University)
Past editors and editorial board members have included noted historians such as Sheila Fitzpatrick, Hanna Gray, William H. McNeill, Geoffrey Parker, and Robert Paxton.
Format and Contents
The JMH publishes articles and book reviews. Of those categories:
- Articles
- Standard article
- Review article: an article that summarizes the progress in some particular area or topic of a preceding period.
- Contemporary Issues in Historic Perspective (CIHP): an article series offering a forum where contributors can explore the intersection between historical knowledge and current affairs. Such articles may, for example, consider the active engagement of historians and other wielders of historical knowledge in shaping contemporary affairs, or they may interpret contemporary European affairs in light of the historian's knowledge of the past.
- Book reviews
- Review of one book
- Review of two books either overlapping in discussion or presenting a point-counterpoint argument.
The Chester Penn Higby Prize
Chester Penn Higby served on the history faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1927 to 1956, and was one of the founders of the Journal of Modern History in 1927. Upon his retirement, several of his former students established a trust fund to provide a cash prize for the best article published in the JMH. The Higby Prize is awarded during even-numbered years, and past winners have included Jan E. Goldstein, William W. Hagen, Susan Pedersen, and Heinrich August Winkler.
References
External links
- Journal of Modern History homepage
- [1] 1956-2006 Higby Prize winners list