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Our 2025 Journals catalog is now available

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Our February “From the Archives” page features scholarship on comedy

Suzanne Marchand and Judith Surkis Awarded 2024 Chester Penn Higby Prize: "Herodotus and the Embarrassments of Universal History in Nineteenth-Century Germany" and "Custody Battles and the Politics of Franco-Algerian Divorce, 1962–1992" (The Journal of Modern History)

The 2023 Barbara Palmer Award for best new essay in medieval or early modern drama archival research has been awarded to Amy Lidster for her article in Renaissance Drama

The Wordsworth-Coleridge Association seeks abstracts for a session on Migration in British Romanticism at MLA 2026 (The Wordsworth Circle)

The editors of the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists welcome Arik Levinson to the team

Read papers from the 54th annual National Tax Association Spring Symposium in the latest issue of National Tax Journal

From the latest issue of the American Journal of Sociology, read a review essay by Alex Vitale on the sociology of policing

The Sixteenth Century Journal seeks a Book Review Editor or editorial team for 2026

The International Journal of Plant Sciences celebrates 150 years of publication

The Journal of Politics presents a special collection on Democratic Transitions

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science welcomes co-Editor in Chief Tim Lewens

Starting on January 1, 2025, The Journal of Politics welcomes a new editorial team

Barbara Newman has been appointed Editor of Speculum for a term beginning in July 2025 (Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies)

Read a collection of free research in policing, civil rights, and racial justice

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  • The Sixteenth Century Journal cover

  • The Sixteenth Century Journal publishes research and inquiry related to the sixteenth century broadly defined (1450-1650) in all fields and all world regions.

  • Transforming Anthropology cover

  • Transforming Anthropology, the flagship journal of the Association of Black Anthropologists, seeks to advance scholarship across the four fields of anthropology and beyond.

  • The Journal of Clinical Ethics cover

  • The Journal of Clinical Ethics focuses on ethical issues in patient care, in the clinic, and at the bedside, and related issues in medicine, healthcare delivery, and best practices.