Tufts Historical Review
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The Tufts Historical Review is an undergraduate and graduate refereed scholarly journal of global, thematic history
, and is one of the few principally-undergraduate journals of history in the United States
. A highly selective publication intended to recognize outstanding student work in history and the humanities, the Tufts Historical Review is distributed to the libraries of various research institutions, including the College of William and Mary
, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
, the University of Massachusetts
, the University of Southern California
, and Tufts, Harvard, Brown
, Cornell, and Georgetown
universities.
The Tufts Historical Review was founded in 2007 as the academic publication of the Tufts History Society and the Department of History. The Tufts Historical Review also holds an annual endowed lecture series that brings notable historians to the university.
The Tufts Historical Review is composed of an editorial board consisting of undergraduate and graduate candidates at Tufts, with editors-at-large at Princeton University
, New York University School of Law
, and the University of Kansas
. The advisory board includes Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
, the William P. Reynolds Chair in History at the University of Notre Dame
and Lawrence S. Bacow, current President of Tufts and former Chancellor of MIT.
The Tufts Historical Review is published by Puritan Press, Inc., a Hollis, New Hampshire
-based group specializing in academic publishing for Harvard, Tufts, MIT, Boston University
, the Groton School
, and the Winsor School. Amongst Puritan Press publications is the nationally-distributed Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, the flagship publication of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
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...
, and is one of the few principally-undergraduate journals of history in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. A highly selective publication intended to recognize outstanding student work in history and the humanities, the Tufts Historical Review is distributed to the libraries of various research institutions, including the College of William and Mary
College of William and Mary
The College of William & Mary in Virginia is a public research university located in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States...
, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
, the University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts
This article relates to the statewide university system. For the flagship campus often referred to as "UMass", see University of Massachusetts Amherst...
, the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
, and Tufts, Harvard, Brown
Brown
Brown is a color term, denoting a range of composite colors produced by a mixture of orange, red, rose, or yellow with black or gray. The term is from Old English brún, in origin for any dusky or dark shade of color....
, Cornell, and Georgetown
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...
universities.
The Tufts Historical Review was founded in 2007 as the academic publication of the Tufts History Society and the Department of History. The Tufts Historical Review also holds an annual endowed lecture series that brings notable historians to the university.
The Tufts Historical Review is composed of an editorial board consisting of undergraduate and graduate candidates at Tufts, with editors-at-large at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
, New York University School of Law
New York University School of Law
The New York University School of Law is the law school of New York University. Established in 1835, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees in law, and is located in Greenwich Village, in the New York City borough of Manhattan....
, and the University of Kansas
University of Kansas
The University of Kansas is a public research university and the largest university in the state of Kansas. KU campuses are located in Lawrence, Wichita, Overland Park, and Kansas City, Kansas with the main campus being located in Lawrence on Mount Oread, the highest point in Lawrence. The...
. The advisory board includes Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Felipe Fernández-Armesto is a British historian and author of several popular works of history.He was born in London, his father was the Spanish journalist Felipe Fernández Armesto and his mother was Betty Millan de Fernandez-Armesto, a British-born journalist and co-founder and editor of The...
, the William P. Reynolds Chair in History at the University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States...
and Lawrence S. Bacow, current President of Tufts and former Chancellor of MIT.
The Tufts Historical Review is published by Puritan Press, Inc., a Hollis, New Hampshire
Hollis, New Hampshire
Hollis is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 7,684 at the 2010 census. The town center village is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Hollis Village Historic District....
-based group specializing in academic publishing for Harvard, Tufts, MIT, Boston University
Boston University
Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...
, the Groton School
Groton School
Groton School is a private, Episcopal, college preparatory boarding school located in Groton, Massachusetts, U.S. It enrolls approximately 375 boys and girls, from the eighth through twelfth grades...
, and the Winsor School. Amongst Puritan Press publications is the nationally-distributed Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, the flagship publication of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
Annual lectures
- 2011: Peter C. PerduePeter C. PerduePeter C. Perdue is an American author, professor, and historian. He is a professor of Chinese history at Yale University.Perdue has a Ph.D. degree from Harvard University in the field of History and East Asian Languages...
, Professor of Asian History, Yale UniversityYale UniversityYale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
. - 2010: Jill LeporeJill LeporeJill Lepore is a professor of American history at Harvard University and chair of Harvard's History and Literature Program. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker, and her essays and reviews have also appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The American Scholar, and in...
, David Woods Kemper Class of 1941 Professor of American History, Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. Pulitzer PrizePulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
finalist, 2006. - 2009: Gordon S. WoodGordon S. WoodGordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution. His book The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 won a 1970 Bancroft Prize...
, Alvo O. Way University Professor, Brown UniversityBrown UniversityBrown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
. Specialist in United States history. Pulitzer Prize recipient, 1993.