About

Focus and Scope

Essays in History (EiH) is an open access journal for emerging historians. Established in 1954, EiH is the world’s oldest, ongoing student-run history journal. Edited by graduate students at the University of Virginia, EiH publishes peer-reviewed articles and historiographical essays in all areas of historical inquiry, as well as reviews of the most recent scholarship. EiH aims to be a resource to students, teachers, researchers, and enthusiasts of historical studies. With its focus on emerging scholars, the journal frequently provides graduate students, early career scholars, and occasionally an accomplished undergraduate their first chance to publish a book review or peer-reviewed article or to serve as an anonymous reviewer or editor. As such, we hope to provide a supportive, caring experience for our editors, authors, and anonymous referees. We are committed to ensuring that equity, anti-racism, and accessibility are at the heart of who we are, how we operate, and the work we publish.

Publication Frequency

The journal is published online as a continuous volume and issue throughout the year. Articles are made available as soon as they are ready to ensure that there are no unnecessary delays in getting content publically available.

Special collections of articles are welcomed and will be published as part of the normal issue, but also within a separate collection page.

Open Access Policy

EiH provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. All articles will be published under Creative Commons licenses. See the Copyright and Licensing Policy for more information.

Copyright and Licensing Policy

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms. If a submission is rejected or withdrawn prior to publication, all rights return to the author(s):

• Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA), Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC), or Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) 4.0 International license that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
• Provided they are the owners of the copyright to their work, authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository, in a journal or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
• Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process.
• Submitting to the journal implicitly confirms that all named authors and rights holders have agreed to the above terms of publication. It is the submitting author's resonsibility to ensure all authors and relevant institutional bodies have given their agreement at the point of submission.
• It will be the responsibility of the authors to secure all necessary copyright permissions for the use of third-party materials in their manuscript. Authors will be required to provide written evidence of this permission upon acceptance of their manuscript.

Indexing and Archiving

EiHis committed to ensuring the long-term accessibility and discoverability of its content. The journal’s publisher, Aperio at the University of Virginia, supports archiving and indexing through multiple services.

This journal is indexed by Google Scholar and content is preserved through CLOCKSS, a secure, decentralized preservation system for scholarly literature. In addition, all article metadata are openly available for harvesting by indexing services via OAI-PMH.

Advertisement policy

The journal only displays advertisements that are of relevance to its scope and will be of interest to the readership (e.g. upcoming conferences). All advertising space is provided free of charge and the editor and publisher have the right to decline or withdraw adverts at any point. Adverts will include a text heading to make it clear that they are adverts not related to the journal.

If you wish to propose a potential advert then please contact the editorial team. All advert images will have to be provided to the publisher.

Sponsors

• Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia
• University of Virginia Library

Journal History

In 1954, scholars at the University of Virginia created Essays in History as a way to make the best historical scholarship in “any particular field of history” available to “historians and to the general public.” Almost seventy years later, the journal continues to publish scholarship in all fields of historical inquiry and be a resource to students, teachers, researchers, and enthusiasts of historical studies. Yet, as the University of Virginia has changed significantly since 1954, the same year as the Supreme Court ruled in favor of school desegregation, so has Essays in History. EiH’s founders conceived of a printed history journal as a way to highlight the scholarship of UVA’s undergraduates and graduates, almost all of whom were elite white men. In 1990, EiH began publishing an electronic version of the journal alongside its print version. By the mid-1990s, the journal had transitioned to a fully online journal publishing work by emerging scholars from institutions across the globe. After a period of dormancy in the early 2000s, the journal was revived in 2009. Today, the Editorial Team of Essays in History is committed to ensuring that equity, anti-racism, and accessibility are at the heart of who we are, how we operate, and the work we publish.