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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 journals are more limited. History Workshop Journal, Issue 50, Autumn 2000 This particular journal is published through Oxford University press and abstracts are available online at web The journal is in book form, soft cover, and approximately 320 pages.
The inside cover page gives publishers 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 Site 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 Basic Sidhwa and Urvashi But alia 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 Right. 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. The internet version of this journal has a completely different format. By clicking onto the journals icon on the home page a table of contents appears describing the same articles listed in the bound version and by clicking on each article heading an abstract of the article appears. Another home page link enables one to access archives of past online issues.
In general the online version is scanty and leaves something to be desired when compared to the bound version. Italian Americana Cultural and Historical Review, Winter 2001 This suitably titled journal is edited at the University of Rhode Island and furnished to an ethnic group of historians. The contents page lists five essays titled: Frank Sinatra: Musician, Actor, and Quintessential Ethnic, Ethnicity and the Networks Italian tribute, The Immigrant Experience in California, Italian American Voters and the Al Smith Revolution: A Reassessment, and Columbus in Contemporary Poetry. Next is a poetry section with poems by Italian immigrant poets. There is an article in the fiction section followed by an essay in memoirs. The next section has two reviews of publications followed by forthcoming articles titled Fascism in Italian Communities and Women of the Italian Resistance.
Next are announcements of Italian history prizes and lastly the journal contains notes on the contributors, many are from universities in Italy. Each essay and work of writing has many detailed source references. Although very ethnic in nature the journal is well put together and can be of interest even to non Italians. I started gliding through the article on Frank Sinatra and found myself reading it to entirety. The authors explain why being an ethnic had a profound effect on his life. The contributors and editors are scholars and noted historians.
Needless to say nearly all had Italian sounding names. I could not find this journal on the internet. History and Anthropology Journal, Vol. II No. 4 This is a very scholarly journal that mainly appeals to anthropologists and is edited in Australia. The scope of this book is to address the intersection of history with social sciences. The internet site for this journal asks for a password and subscription fee and I could not access it.
The book has four very lengthy essays replete with many footnotes and sources. The writing is very specific and technically oriented to knowledge that an anthropologist would have, and a person from without the field would have difficulty comprehending the theories and concepts presented therein. One of the articles is title Academic recognition and Sexual Secrecy, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict by Lee Wallace while another is titled Dialects of Localization by Allen Abramson. The first article is a comment regarding the anthropologists inquiry into the sexual habits of the Samoans while the latter is about the political articulation of land rights in Fiji since the mid 1800 s. This journal has many pictures (woodcuts etc. ) and drawings and comes in hard cover.
The content self limits itself to only four essays with no editorial introduction and the journal makes up a 400 page volume. History of Religions Journal, Vol. 40, No. 1, August 2000 The History of Religion is a publication put out by University of Chicago religious scholars dedicated to the study of historical religious happenings. The book has four essays about 25 pages each and mostly dealing with eastern beliefs like Buddhism. One of them is titled Spiritual Accomplishment by Misdirection: Some Upaya Folklore Tales from East Asia. It was impractical for myself to get the gist of what the author intended to convey in this particular piece because I know nothing of Buddhism...
The articles were difficult to follow because they were very scientific and save one knew the theory and background of Eastern religions many of the references are perplexing. The Journal of A...
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