History Compass

*History Compass*
Discipline	History
Language	English
Edited by
Publication details
History	2003-present
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Frequency	Monthly
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Hist. Compass
Indexing;
ISSN	1478-0542 (print); 1478-0542 (web);
LCCN	2007252533
OCLC no.	949804183
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access; Online archive;

History Compass is a peer-reviewed online-only academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell. Originally launched in association with the Institute of Historical Research (London), it is unique in its purpose and structure, aiming to "solve the problem of keeping up with new developments in history by providing historians with regularly updated overviews of the important trends, debates, resources and publications in the field...combining a current awareness service with a survey journal for lecturers, researchers, and advanced students of history."^[1]

The journal commissions leading academics to write survey articles on "the most important research and thinking across the entire discipline, with no restrictions in terms of geography, time period or historical methodology."^[2] While authoritative, articles are also written in an engaging and lively style, as the journal's intended audience includes not just professional historians but also non-specialists and advanced undergraduate students.

Launched in 2003, within three years it had become a leading high-profile peer reviewed electronic journal for history, featuring more than 100 new articles per year and its site routinely receiving 300,000 hits a month.^[3]^[4]

The journal is divided into ten geographical subsections, each of which has its own editor(s):

Africa

Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin
Elizabeth Thornberry, Johns Hopkins

Ancient World

Ari Bryen, West Virginia University

Asia

Dominic Sachsenmaier, Göttingen University
Projit B. Mukharji, University of Pennsylvania

Australasia & Pacific

Kate Darian-Smith, University of Tasmania
Katie Pickles, University of Canterbury
Paul Turnbull, University of Tasmania

Britain & Ireland

David S Bachrach, University of New Hampshire
Brian Lewis, McGill University
R. Malcolm Smuts, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Caribbean & Latin America

Robert Schwaller, University of Kansas
Jeff Shumway, Brigham Young University

Europe

Leighton James, Swansea University
Katherine French, University of Michigan
Daniel Stolzenberg, University of California, Davis

Middle & Near East

Justin Stearns, NYU Abu Dhabi
Shana Minkin, Sewanee, The University of the South

North America

Cecilia Morgan, University of Toronto
Daniel Livesay, Claremont McKenna College
Jennifer Wallach, University of North Texas

World

Rainer F. Buschmann, CSU Channel Islands

The current editor-in-chief is historian , of the University of Pennsylvania (2018-present).

The founding editor-in-chief was the late Mark Kishlansky, of Harvard University (2003-2008), followed by Felice Lifshitz, of the University of Alberta (2008-2013); and , of the University of Rochester (2013-2018). The journal has benefited from a close association with the American Historical Association, which for a time offered its members a free six-month trial.^[5]^[6] The journal also offered a now-defunct graduate essay prize, the results of which were to be announced at the AHA's annual meeting.^[7]