The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

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...

 covering the history of Pennsylvania

History of Pennsylvania

The history of Pennsylvania is as varied as any in the American experience and reflects the salad bowl vision of the United States. Before Pennsylvania was settled by Europeans, the area was home to the Delaware , Susquehannock, Iroquois, Eries, Shawnee and other Native American tribes...

. It has been published by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania is a historical society founded in 1824 and based in Philadelphia. The Society's building, designed by Addison Hutton and listed on Philadelphia's Register of Historical Places, houses some 600,000 printed items and over 19 million manuscript and graphic items...

 since 1877. Issues from January 2006 forward are available online on the History Cooperatives Web. Past issues, from 1907 through 2004, are freely available through Penn State University's digital library collections. Issues from 1877 through 2003 are also available on JSTOR

JSTOR

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