New York Historical Society Quarterly

New York Historical Society Quarterly
Title	New York Historical Society Quarterly
Discipline	History
Abbreviation	NYHS Q.
Publisher	New York Historical Society
Country	United States
Frequency	Quarterly
History	19XX–present

Contents

New York Historical Society Quarterly is a scholarly periodical associated with the New York Historical Society that publishes research on the history of New York City, New York State, and the broader Atlantic world. The journal has featured work connecting figures such as George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson, and John Jay to topics including urban development, commerce, and political culture. Contributors have engaged with archives such as the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, the New-York Historical Society collections, the New York State Archives, and university repositories like Columbia University, New York University, and Princeton University.

History

The Quarterly originated amid 19th- and 20th-century scholarly efforts exemplified by institutions like the American Historical Association, the New-York Historical Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and the Society of American Archivists. Early editorial networks included figures associated with Theodore Roosevelt, Hamilton Fish, William Cullen Bryant, and philanthropies such as the Rockefeller family and the Carnegie Corporation. Editorial practices echoed models established by journals like the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, and the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Over decades the Quarterly has navigated historiographical shifts traced through scholarship on the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Civil War, the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, and the Great Depression.

Articles address municipal history connecting to figures and places like Peter Stuyvesant, Pieter Corneliszoon van der Capellen, William the Silent, Fort Amsterdam, Broadway (Manhattan), and Battery Park. Economic and commercial studies situate traders such as Robert Fulton, Cornelius Vanderbilt, John Jacob Astor, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan within networks tied to ports like New York Harbor, markets like Wall Street, and institutions such as the New York Stock Exchange. Cultural and intellectual history pieces engage authors and artists like Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Winslow Homer, and Georgia O'Keeffe; social histories examine migration waves including the Great Irish Famine, the German revolutions of 1848, the Italian diaspora, and the Second Great Migration. Legal and political articles connect to cases and debates involving Dred Scott v. Sandford, Tammany Hall, Boss Tweed, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and legislative milestones like the Tenement House Act (1901). The Quarterly has published archival transcriptions, maps, and visual material relating to collections from institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Historical Society, and Staten Island Museum.

The journal follows peer-review and editorial standards influenced by practices at the American Historical Review, Oxford University Press, and university presses including Columbia University Press and Harvard University Press. Its apparatus features footnotes and archival citations to repositories including the New York State Library, the National Archives, the New-York Historical Society Library, and private papers like the Hamilton Papers, Adams Papers, and Roosevelt Family Papers. Production has involved partnerships with printers and binders historically linked to publishers such as G. P. Putnam's Sons, Alfred A. Knopf, and Dover Publications; editorial boards have included scholars from Columbia University, Yale University, Princeton University, Rutgers University, and Barnard College.

The Quarterly has published essays by historians and public intellectuals affiliated with Henry Adams, Woodrow Wilson, Lewis Mumford, Carolyn Marvin, Eric Foner, Gordon S. Wood, Doron S. Ben-Atar, Jill Lepore, Daphne Brooks, and Ibram X. Kendi. Notable pieces have treated events and personalities such as the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1795, the Draft Riots of 1863, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the rise and fall of Ellis Island immigration processing, the construction of Brooklyn Bridge, and biographical studies of Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, Boss Tweed, Samuel J. Tilden, and Fiorello La Guardia. The journal has also published documentary editions of primary sources including letters by Benjamin Franklin, diaries of Washington Irving, business records of John Jacob Astor, and maps by John Randel Jr..

Scholars have cited the Quarterly in works on urban history, Atlantic history, legal history, and cultural studies alongside citations to journals such as the Journal of Urban History, the William and Mary Quarterly, The Journal of American History, and Reviews in American History. Its influence is noted in museum exhibitions at institutions like the Museum of the City of New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the American Museum of Natural History, as well as curricular adoption at universities including Columbia University, City University of New York, New York University, and Fordham University. Reviews have compared its editorial approach to that of periodicals such as the American Antiquarian Society Proceedings and the Mississippi Valley Historical Review.

The Quarterly is indexed in bibliographic services and historical databases that include JSTOR, America: History and Life, Historical Abstracts, and library catalogs such as the Library of Congress Online Catalog and WorldCat entries used by the OCLC. Physical runs are held by repositories including the New-York Historical Society Library, the New York Public Library, Columbia University Libraries, Princeton University Library, and state historical societies such as the New York State Historical Association. Digital backfiles and selected articles appear in academic aggregators curated by university presses and consortia including Project MUSE and institutional repositories at Columbia University and New York University.

Category:History journals