Journals, eJournals & online resources

The Library has current subscriptions to the following periodical titles of interest in the study of the United States. The current editions are held in the main Reading Room while past volumes, if retained, will be bound and shelved under Periodicals.

The American Scholar: current affairs/literature/science/history/culture
The Atlantic Monthly: current affairs/literature/science/history/culture
The Hudson Review: literature and the arts
The Journal of American History: (formerly the Mississippi Valley Historical Review) covers all aspects of American history.
The Journal of American Studies: peer reviewed journal covering international perspectives on culture, literature, politics and history of the United States
Massachusetts Review: literature, arts and culture
The New Republic: politics/arts
The New Yorker: politics/culture/arts/literature/current affairs
The Sewanee Review: literature (from 2016 onwards available online only)
Southern Review: literature
The William and Mary Quarterly: early American history and culture (from 2016 onwards available online only)

In addition to the periodicals the Library also possesses publications issued by American scholarly institutions and societies. These can be found under the shelfmark Societies. There is also a substantial collection from the Smithsonian Institute which can be found both under the shelfmark Societies, Smithsonian Institute but also as monographs within the general collection, mainly in the Science and Miscellaneous section.

The Library provides access to a number of relevant periodicals electronically through JSTOR (the online archive of academic journals). There is no overall subject covering American/United States Studies but journals can be found under disciplines such as African American Studies, American Indian Studies and, wider disciplines, for example Art, Language and Literature, Film Studies and History. This is a very useful resource for finding both well-known journals and less well-known ones such as California History and Arizona and the West.

Other more specialised journals (available on JSTOR) cover specific time periods or individual state histories, these include:
The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: covering all aspects of United States history from 1865-1920 (2002-09).
Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association: focuses exclusively on Lincoln scholarship (1979-2010)
The Western Historical Quarterly: covers history of the North American West
William & Mary Quarterly: covers early American history and culture (earlier issues of this periodical are also available in print under the shelfmark Periodicals)

State history, for example:

New York History (journal of the New York state Historical Association) devoted entirely to New York state history (the Library holds print copies from 1919-1933 and later volumes are available on JSTOR)
Oregon Historical Quarterly: history of Oregon & the Pacific Northwest
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
Massachusetts Historical review

The Library’s electronic resources can be found on the Catalogue homepage, for example:
American National Biography
George Washington Papers
New York Review of Books