A history journal is an academic serial publication

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 designed to present new scholarship on a historical subject, usually a subfield of history

History

History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

, with articles generally being subjected to peer review

Peer review

Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...

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History and development

The historical journal, a forum where academic historians could exchange ideas and publish newly discovered information, came into being in the 19th century. The early journals were similar to those for the physical sciences, and were seen as a means for history to become more professional. Journals also helped historians to establish various historiographical approaches, the most notable example of which was Annales. Économies. Sociétés. Civilisations., a publication instrumental in establishing the Annales School

Annales School

The Annales School is a group of historians associated with a style of historiography developed by French historians in the 20th century. It is named after its scholarly journal Annales d'histoire économique et sociale, which remains the main source of scholarship, along with many books and...

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Some historical journals are as follows:

• 1840 Historisk tidsskrift (Denmark)
• 1859 Historische Zeitschrift
  Historische Zeitschrift
  Historische Zeitschrift, founded in 1859 by Heinrich von Sybel is considered to be the first and for a time the foremost historical journal. The creation of this journal inspired Gabriel Monod to found the French Revue historique in 1876. In 1886 the English Historical Review was founded and in...
  
  (Germany)
• 1866 Archivum historicum, later Historiallinen arkisto (Finland, published in Finnish)
• 1867 Századok (Hungary)
• 1871 Historisk tidsskrift (Norway)
  Historisk Tidsskrift (Norway)
  The Historisk Tidsskrift is a Norwegian history journal. It was established in 1871 by Ludvig Ludvigsen Daae and Michael Birkeland. It is published quarterly by the Editing Norwegian Historical Association, and until 1955 the editor-in-chief was identical with the chairman of that organization....
  
  
• 1876 Revue Historique (France)
• 1881 Historisk tidskrift (Sweden)
• 1886 English Historical Review (UK)
• 1895 American Historical Review
  American Historical Review
  The American Historical Review is the official publication of the American Historical Association, established in 1895 "for the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical documents and artifacts, and the dissemination of historical research." It targets readers...
  
  (USA)
• 1912 History
• 1914 Mississippi Valley Historical Review (renamed in 1964 the Journal of American History
  Journal of American History
  The Journal of American History is the 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...
  
  ) (USA)
• 1916 The Journal of Negro History
• 1916 Historisk Tidskrift för Finland (Finland, published in Swedish)
• 1918 Hispanic American historical review
• 1928 Scandia
  Scandia (journal)
  Scandia: tidskrift för historisk forskning is an academic journal for history which has been published since 1928, when it was established by the Swedish historian Lauritz Weibull...
  
  (Sweden)
• 1929 Annales. Économies. Sociétés. Civilisations
  Annales School
  The Annales School is a group of historians associated with a style of historiography developed by French historians in the 20th century. It is named after its scholarly journal Annales d'histoire économique et sociale, which remains the main source of scholarship, along with many books and...
  
  
• 1952 Past & present: a journal of historical studies
  Past & Present
  Past & Present is a British historical academic journal, which was a leading force in the development of social history. It was founded in 1952 by a combination of Marxist and non-Marxist historians. The Marxist historians included members of the Communist Party Historians Group, including E. P...
  
  (Great Britain)
• 1953 Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte (Germany)
• 1956 Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria (Nigeria)
• 1960 Journal of African History (Cambridge)
• 1960 Technology and culture: the international quarterly of the Society for the History of Technology
  Technology and Culture
  Technology and Culture is a quarterly academic journal founded in 1959. It is an official publication of the Society for the History of Technology, whose members routinely refer to it as "T&C." Besides scholarly articles, the journal publishes reviews of books and museum exhibitions. Occasionally,...
  
  (USA)
• 1975 Geschichte und Gesellschaft. Zeitschrift für historische Sozialwissenschaft (Germany)
• 1976 Journal of Family History
• 1982 Storia della Storiografia — History of Historiography — Histoire de l'Historiographie — Geschichte der Geschichtsschreibung http://www.cisi.unito.it/stor/home.htm
• 1982 Subaltern Studies
  Subaltern Studies
  The Subaltern Studies Group or Subaltern Studies Collective are a group of South Asian scholars interested in the postcolonial and post-imperial societies of South Asia in particular and the developing world in general. The term Subaltern Studies is sometimes also applied more broadly to others...
  
  (Oxford University Press)
• 1986 Zeitschrift für Sozialgeschichte des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts, new title since 2003: Sozial.Geschichte. Zeitschrift für historische Analyse des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts (Germany)
• 1990 Gender and history
• 1990 L'Homme. Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft http://www.univie.ac.at/Geschichte/LHOMME/ (Austria)
• 1990 Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften (ÖZG) http://www.univie.ac.at/Wirtschaftsgeschichte/OeZG/
• 1992 Women's History Review
• 1993 Historische Anthropologie http://www.historische-anthropologie.uni-goettingen.de/