''The Journal of American History'' is the quarterly official

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of the Organization of American Historians. It covers the field of

American history The history of the present-day United States began in roughly 15,000 BC with the arrival of Peopling of the Americas, the first people in the Americas. In the late 15th century, European colonization of the Americas, European colonization beg ...

and was established in 1914 as the ''Mississippi Valley Historical Review'', the official journal of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association. After the publication of its fiftieth volume, the recognition of a shift in the direction of the membership and its scholarship led to the name change in 1964. The journal is headquartered in

Bloomington, Indiana Bloomington is a city in Monroe County, Indiana, United States, and its county seat. The population was 79,168 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is the List of municipalities in Indiana, seventh-most populous city in Indiana and ...

, where it has close ties to the History Department at

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List of editors

''Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association''

* Benjamin F. Shambaugh (1908–14)

''Mississippi Valley Historical Review''

* Clarence W. Alvord (1914–1923) * Lester B. Shippee (1923–1924) * Milo M. Quaife (1924–1930) * Arthur Charles Cole (1930–1941) * Louis Pelzer (1941–1946) * Wendell H. Stephenson (1946–1953) * William C. Binkley (1953–1963) * Oscar O. Winther (1963–1964)

''Journal of American History''

* Oscar O. Winther (1964–1966) * Martin Ridge (1966–1978) * Lewis Perry (1978–1984) * Paul Lucas (1984–1985) * David Thelen (1985–1999) * Joanne Meyerowitz (1999–2004) * David Nord (2004–2005) * Edward T. Linenthal (2005–2016) * Benjamin H. Irvin (2017—present)

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