JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY

JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY is published by Southern Historical Association and is in Zone 2 of History in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are American Constitutional Law and Politics, Race, History, and American Society and American History and Culture, together about 54.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

| Mission | Inclusiveness | NCH | Constitution | Bylaws | Mission The Southern Historical Association (SHA) was founded on November 2, 1934 and charged with promoting an “investigative rather than a memorial approach” to southern history. Today the Association supports history education and history educators at all levels within the South. Specifically, the Association seeks to: 1) foster historically-based thinking in and about the American South; 2) promote the study and teaching of southern history at all educational levels; 3) encourage the collection and preservation of historical records within the American South; 4) support and encourage state and local historical societies, museums, and educational organizations within the American South; and 5) advocate on behalf of the South's history educators. The SHA represents all historians of the South and all historians in the South. The Association holds an annual meeting, usually in the first or second week of November, and proudly publishes The Journal of Southern History Statement on Inclusiveness The Southern Historical Association aims to be an inclusive organization and strives to treat all of its members with dignity and respect and to provide a community that is free from discrimination whether based on race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, marital status, or any other status or classification protected by federal, state or local law. Constitution ARTICLE I - NAME The name of this organization shall be The Southern Historical Association. ARTICLE II - PURPOSE Its purpose shall be the encouragement of the study of history in the South, with emphasis on the history of the South. ARTICLE III - MEMBERSHIP Membership in the Association shall be open to any individual. Institutions may subscribe to the publications of the Association but may not be members. Nonmembers may participate in program sessions of the Association but may not vote at its business meetings, hold office, or be members of standing committees of the Association. All members may participate in all activities of the Association without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, marital status, or any other status or classification protected by federal, state or local law. ARTICLE IV - LEGAL STATUS The Southern Historical Association shall be a tax-exe

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Research area (LetPub): HISTORY

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

AHCIScopusLetPub

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

0.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.12LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.23LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

149OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

3,278OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

33.3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

1.92%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

25LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

Southern Historical Association

ISSN

0022-4642

Electronic ISSN

2325-6893

Society / sponsor

Association shall be the Journal of Southern History

Official links

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