Publications

The Journal of American History is the leading scholarly publication in the field of American history and is well known as the major resource for the study, investigation, and teaching of our nation's past. Appearing quarterly since 1914—first as the Mississippi Valley Historical Review—the Journal has a distinguished history of its own, publishing many prize-winning and widely reprinted scholarly articles. The Journal also features historiographic essays and reviews of books, films, exhibitions, and websites. Its ongoing internationalization initiative places American history in a global context, and its Teaching the JAH project brings the latest scholarly research into the history classroom. The JAH Recent Scholarship bibliography is now available to OAH members as an online searchable database.

For more information regarding institutional subscriptions to the Journal of American History, please contact Oxford University Press.

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The Organization of American Historians is pleased to announce a new magazine for all of our members. The American Historian will cover the broad variety of needs and interests of our members, including primary and secondary teaching, professional development, research, recent scholarship, public history, digital history, and contemporary debates about the past. We believe that it will educate and excite OAH members and the entire U.S. history community.

For more information regarding institutional subscriptions to The American Historian, please contact oah@oah.org.

Process is the new blog of the OAH, The Journal of American History, and The American Historian. It features posts about teaching, public history, careers in history, the newest scholarship on U.S. history, and more.

Find information about issues affecting the history community, current happening around the profession, and updates from the OAH, its committees, and partners. This page is intended to keep our community of U.S. historians up to date on all things related to the teaching and practice of history.

Published from 1985 through 2013, the OAH Magazine of History focused on a theme or topic of recent scholarship in American history. It provided readers with informative articles, lesson plans, and current historiography. The OAH Magazine of History ceased publication with the October 2013 issue. Members may access the entire archive—all twenty-seven volumes—of the OAH Magazine online.

OAH Outlook: A Membership Newsletter of the Organization of American Historians, provided news of the organization and the history profession, as well as timely articles of professional and scholarly interest to OAH members. OAH Outlook appeared quarterly each January, April, July, and October. It ceased publication with the January 2016 issue. Content previously included in Outlook now appears under "News of the OAH" and "Program Notes" in The American Historian. Content also appears on the OAH's blog, Process.

Mailed to the membership each January, the OAH Conference on American History Program includes information about the OAH Conference, held in the spring of each year. The meeting provides an opportunity to join colleagues for conversations on a range of issues, make professional contacts, and view the latest historical publications in the annual meeting exhibit hall. The meeting also includes Focus on Teaching sessions and a series of professional sessions for graduate students, as well as tours and off site sessions.

Each year, the OAH releases its annual report. With reports from the president, executive director, executive editor, and treasurer,
the OAH Annual Report places at your fingertips a comprehensive view of the organization’s programs and activities for the preceding fiscal year.

Published from 1970 through 2009, the quarterly OAH Newsletter provided news of the organization, legislative updates from Capitol Hill related to the history profession, and activities of members, during its nearly forty year run. The entire back file is now accessible, free of charge, at the OAH Archives, located at the Ruth M. Lilly Special Collections and Archives, on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis.