The official journal of the Social Science History Association

Annual membership in the Social Science History Association includes a subscription to Social Science History with electronic access through a combination of HighWire Press, Project Muse, and JSTOR.

Social Science History seeks to advance the study of the past by publishing research that appeals to the journal's interdisciplinary readership of historians, sociologists, economists, political scientists, anthropologists, and geographers. The journal invites articles that blend empirical research with theoretical work, undertake comparisons across time and space, or contribute to the development of quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis.


Online access to the current issue and all back issues of Social Science History is available to print subscribers through a combination of HighWire Press, Project Muse, and JSTOR via a single user name or password that can be accessed from any location (regardless of institutional affiliation).

Special issues include

"The Persistence of the Health Insurance Dilemma" (30:4)
—John E. Murray, special issue editor

"African American Fraternal Associations and the History of Civil Society in the United States" (28:3)
—Katherine A. Lynch, special issue editor

"Recent Research in Anthropometric History" (28:2)
—John Komlos and Jörg Baten, special issue editors

"Labor Internationalism" (27:4)
—Michael Hanagan, special issue editor

Indexed/abstracted in the following: Academic Search Elite, Academic Search Premier, America: History and Life, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Current Abstracts, Current Contents/Arts and Humanities, Historical Abstracts, International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (IBZ), International Political Science Abstracts, IOWA GUIDE, Magazines for Libraries, SCOPUS, Social Sciences Citation Index, SocINDEX, SocINFO, Sociological Abstracts.

Related links:

Subscribers: Access Journal Online
Social Science History Web site
Social Science History Association

Frequency: Quarterly