David Paul Nord | Editor's Annual Report, 2004–2005 | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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David Paul Nord | Editor's Annual Report, 2004–2005 | The Journal of American History, 92.2 | The History Cooperative

Editor's Annual Report, 2004–2005

After a two-year search, the Journal of American History has a new editor, Edward T. Linenthal, who begins his editorship on August 1, 2005. Linenthal comes to the Journal from the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, where he held the Edward M. Penson professorship in religion and American culture. His field of research is the history of public commemoration and historical memory. His books include The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory (2001) and Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum (1995). Everyone at the JAH office and at the Organization of American Historians is very pleased to welcome Ed aboard.	1
Linenthal succeeds Joanne Meyerowitz, who left the Journal in the summer of 2004. Dave Nord has been serving as interim editor during the 2004–2005 academic year. Steve Stowe has filled in as associate editor.	2
In volume 91, which includes the issues from June 2004 to March 2005, the JAH published 16 regular articles, 8 articles in a special round table, 1 presidential address, 1 "Interchange" conversation, 4 articles on textbooks and teaching, 14 exhibition reviews, 21 Web site reviews, 23 movie reviews, and 609 book reviews (634 books). The round table in the June 2004 issue was a fifty-year retrospective on the impact of the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education. The "Interchange" conversation in the September 2004 issue was on "Genres of History," involving a novelist, a filmmaker and visual artist, a museum director, a TV documentary producer, an editorial writer, and a poet.	3
Two articles from volume 91 were developed into installments of "Teaching the JAH," our online effort to bring JAH scholarship into college and high school classrooms. The September 2004 installment built on Gael Graham's article, "Flaunting the Freak Flag: Karr v. Schmidt and the Great Hair Debate in American High Schools, 1965–1975." The March 2005 installment drew on Caroline Winterer's article, "From Royal to Republican: The Classical Image in Early America." "Teaching the JAH" is available to both subscribers and nonsubscribers on the JAH Web site at <http://www.iub.edu/~jah/teaching/>.	4
During the calendar year 2004 we received 150 article manuscripts, which included 32 revised resubmissions. Of the 150, we accepted 21, rejected 93, and invited 26 resubmissions. Ten articles were withdrawn by their authors. The number of articles submitted in 2004 was down from 2003, a year in which we vetted 206 submissions. Over the last few years we have been working hard to reduce the time it takes to review articles. Of the articles sent to outside referees in 2004, the average length of time from submission to decision was 83 days, compared with 100 days in 2003. The favorite historical era for authors submitting articles during 2004 was the early twentieth century. Favorite historical subject areas were African Americans and race, international relations, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Revolutionary War and the early national period, American Indians, and social welfare.	5
The current issue, September 2005, carries the latest installment of "Interchange." "Interchange: History in the Professional Schools" brings together academic historians who hold appointments in professional schools in a conversation about how their experience of doing history (teaching and research) is different from or similar to doing history in a history department. The participants are James L. Baughman, journalism and mass communication, University of Wisconsin; Catherine Brekus, divinity, University of Chicago; Mary L. Dudziak, law, University of Southern California; Nancy F. Koehn, business, Harvard University; Susan E. Lederer, medicine, Yale University; and Jonathan Zimmerman, education, New York University.	. . .

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