History Journals
The library I selected to conduct my search for History journals was at the University of Buffalo, Amherst Campus. Having made trips there on two separate occasions and having skimmed quickly through perhaps twenty or so different journals I eventually selected a handful that I felt were a good representation of what to expect in a history journal. These were soft or hard cover ranging from a lean 100 pages to a robust 500 page book. Also I conducted further research on the internet by examining at least thirty promising history sites to finally select a half dozen that I felt what be a good approximation of a book-form history journal. Here I had many problems obtaining information as many of the sites were password protected and subscription access only, and there were many dead ends, however I was able to obtain information. A lot of these journals are published by people associated with the History departments of universities, while others were published by History organizations. I also found that many magazine or book-form journals also had internet sites and those that did had some form of the journal there for viewing, either abstracts, highlights, or full text articles. Consequently my descriptions for Internet journa
This particular journal is published through Oxford University press and abstracts are available online at www.hwj.oupjournals.org. The journal is in book form, soft cover, and approximately 320 pages. The inside cover page gives publisher's information while the contents are listed on the first and second pages. The journal is divided into sections called: editorial, articles and essays, feature history and bibliography, archives and sources, history on the line, history workshop history, reviews, report back, obituaries, and notes on contributors. The editorial is short and discusses why the current issue is special (fifty years old) and gives one or two sentence statements about certain articles contained therein or the authors. The articles and essays section has six essays by six authors. Some of these have very long titles like "Francois Bernier and the Invention of Radical Classification" by Siep Stuurman, or "Common Sense in Shanghai: the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce and political Legitimacy in Republican China" by Josephine Fox. In the feature section are four lengthy articles two of which are: " Re-remembering the Soldier Hero: the Psychic and Social Construction of Memory in Personal Narratives of the Great War" by Michael Roper and "Writing Early Medieval Biography" by Janet L. Nelson. Under archives and sources is the Boyd Orr survey of the Nutrition of Children in Britain and extracts of Gwen Pemberton's diaries. In history on the line Bapsi Sidhwa and Urvashi Butalia discuss the partition of India. The history workshop section contains two scholarly articles about history and its effects on average people. The reviews section explains the contents of seven different works as assorted as "a philosophical history of language" to "the language of the third Reicht". The report back section contains three essays on "war, peasants, and Medieval pasts". After the obituary section is a lengthy section with notes on the contributors. Here is much information about the work and writings of the contributing authors. The articles and essays are scholarly and detailed and some of them were originally lectures delivered at universities. Lengthy references with abundant footnotes conclude each of the essays and articles. Some of them are technical (where specific learned knowledge is required on a certain topic such as Philosophy or Religion) while others are appealing and easy to read. Italian Americana Cultural and Historical Review, Winter 2001 The American Historical Review, Vol.105, No.5, Dec.2000 History of Religions Journal, Vol.40, No.1, August 2000 History Workshop Journal, Issue 50, Autumn 2000 History and Anthropology Journal, Vol.II No.4 Despite its impressive sounding name this online journal was the least informative and skimpiest I had found. There was only one article, and it was a transcript of a short manuscript written by Thomas Jefferson. There was a photo of the paper that contained the original article written in Jefferson's own handwriting. The content was interesting but only half a page long. Of course there were references and footnotes explaining the sourcing of this manuscript. The other accessed pages of this journal listed recent publications that draw on the Gilder Lehrman Collection and there is a small section for a listing of other publications. A reader is able to search the Gilder archives for past issues, which should not take any discernable amount of time since this issue was merely three pages in length.
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Approximate Word count = 2418
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)
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