The Journal of Modern History

Infobox Journal




discipline = European History
abbreviated_title = noeffect
abbreviation = JMH
publisher = University of Chicago Press
country = US
publication_history = noeffect
frequency = quarterly
history = 1927-present
website = http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JMH/home.html
ISSN = 0022-2801

The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading American journal for the study of European intellectual, political, and cultural history. It is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December by the University of Chicago Press in cooperation with the Modern European History Section of the American Historical Association. [cite news | url=http://www.jstor.org/journals/00222801.html | title=The Journal of Modern History | publisher=JSTOR |date= 2008 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17] 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 approximately 1500 to the present, with a geographical scope extending from the United Kingdom through the European continent, including 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. A long line of influential historians have served this post, including Sheila Fitzpatrick, Hanna Gray, William H. McNeill, and Bernadotte Schmitt.

The editorial board consists of ten members serving two-year shifts. The current board members are:

*Terms beginning January 2006:
**Deborah Cohen (Brown University)
**Isabel Virginia Hull (Cornell University)
**Joan Wallach Scott (Institute for Advanced Study)
**Lawrence Wolff (New York University)

*Terms beginning January 2007:
**Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
**Robert Weinberg (Swarthmore College)

*Terms beginning January 2008:
**Suzanne Desan (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
**Louise McReynolds (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
**Helmut Walser Smith (Vanderbilt University)
**Dror Wahrman (Indiana University)

Past editorial board members have included noted academics such as Volker Berghahn, John Gillis, Cynthia Herrup, Derek Hirst, Lynn Hunt, Martin Jay, Tony Judt, Paul Kennedy, Arno Mayer, Norman Naimark, Geoffrey Parker, Robert Paxton, Simon Schama, William H. Sewell, Jr., David Underdown, and Martin Wiener.

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.

Articles are generally published in the order in which they were received, but the JMH has, on occasion, collected articles for special issues focusing on specific topics. For example, the December 1996 issue centered on "Practices of Denunciation in Modern European History, 1789-1989," and the March 2000 issue was entitled "New Work on the Old Regime and the French Revolution: A Special Issue in Honor of François Furet."

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

* [http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JMH/home.html "Journal of Modern History" homepage]
* [http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/517542] 1956-2006 Higby Prize winners list