''French Historical Studies'' is a quarterly
peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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covering
French history. It publishes articles in English and French. The journal is published by
Duke University Press
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on behalf of the
Society for French Historical Studies.
History
Evelyn Acomb, a historian of French
laïcité
(; 'secularism') is the constitutional principle of secularism in France. Article 1 of the French Constitution is commonly interpreted as the separation of civil society and religious society. It discourages religious involvement in governmen ...
, found that France lay largely outside the scope of North American historians. In 1954, Acomb and several colleagues founded the Society for French historical Studies to be one of the leading journals in
French history. The Society's journal was established in 1958 with
Marvin L. Brown Jr., a diplomatic historian from
North Carolina State College in Raleigh, was the first
editor-in-chief
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. Brown remained as editor through 1966.
it is edited by Christine Haynes at the University of Carolina in Charlotte and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer at the university of Massachusetts in Amherst.
Further reading
* Edward Berenson and Nancy L. Green, "The Society for French Historical Studies: The Early Years", ''French Historical Studies'' 28, no. 4 (2005): 579–600.
References
External links
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French history journals
Academic journals established in 1958
Multilingual journals
Quarterly journals
Duke University Press academic journals
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