Current History is the oldest publication in the United States devoted exclusively to contemporary world affairs. The magazine was founded in 1914 by George Washington Ochs Oakes, brother of Adolph Ochs, publisher of the New York Times, to provide detailed coverage of World War I. Current History published by The New York Times Company since its founding until 1936. Since 1942 it has been owned by members of the Redmond family; Its current publisher is Daniel Mark Redmond.
Current History , based in Philadelphia, has no institutional, political, or governmental affiliation. It is published monthly, from September to May. Seven issues annually devoted to the world's regions (China and East Asia, Russia and Eurasia, Middle East, Latin America, Europe, South Asia, and Africa); one issue covers the current global trends; and one issue addressing specific themes such as climate change or global governance. The magazine has followed this practice devoting every issue to a single region or theme since 1953. Each issue covers the chronology of major international events, and most contain a section of reviews of books and articles devoted to comments.
Contributors to Current History in the early years of publication include George Bernard Shaw, Winston Churchill, Charles A. Beard, Allan Nevins, and Henry Steele Commager. More recently, this journal features writers such as James Schlesinger, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey Sachs, Bruce Riedel, Leslie H. Gelb, Bruce Russett, Elizabethan Economics, Charles Kupchan, Ivo Daalder, Joseph Cirincione, Phebe Marr, Juan Cole, Bruce Gilley, and Marina Ottaway.
Shortly after the Current History began publishing in 1914, its editor, Ochs Oakes, ruled that a magazine recording "history in manufacture" should retain as a regular contributor to a group of social historians and scientists. He sought the help of a Harvard historian, Albert Bushnell Hart, in organizing the initial group of journal editor contributors.
The current history of ' s of today's editorial board includes Catherine Boone (London School of Economics and Political Science); Bruce Cumings (University of Chicago); Deborah Davis (Yale University); David B. H. Denoon (University of New York); Larry Diamond (Stanford University); Michele Dunne (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace); Barry Eichengreen (University of California, Berkeley); C. Christine Fair (Georgetown University); Sumit Ganguly (University of Indiana); Marshall Goldman (Wellesley College); G. John Ikenberry (Princeton University); Michael T. Klare (Hampshire College); Joshua Kurlantzick (Council on Foreign Relations); Michael McFaul (Stanford University, currently on leave); Rajan Menon (Lehigh University); Augustus Richard Norton (Boston University); Joseph Nye (Harvard University); Michael Shifter (Inter-American Dialogue); Arturo Valenzuela (Georgetown University, on leave); and Jeffrey Wasserstrom (University of California, Irvine). The publication editor is Alan Sorensen.
The magazine was linked to an international scandal ahead of World War II. The New York Times has sold Current History in 1936 to the editor of Merle Tracy; in 1939 was sold again, to ownership group that included Joseph Hilton Smyth, who also obtained magazines such as The Living Age and The North American Review . Smyth's Relationship with Current History ended in the same year, but he and two of his associates, in connection with their publishing activities, were then convicted of acting as agents for the Japanese government without registering to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Current History discusses this episode in the October 1942 edition, maintaining that Smyth during the months in which he holds possession in publications does not control editorial policies. "
According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 0.127, ranking 149 of 161 journals in the "Political Science" category and 82 of 85 journals in the "International Relations" category.
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External links
- Current History Website
- Current History in HathiTrust
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