The Journal of American History

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{{Infobox journal

| title = The Journal of American History

| cover = Journal of American History Cover, 1965.gif

| editor = Benjamin Irvin

| discipline = American history

| former_names = Mississippi Valley Historical Review

| formernames = Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Mississippi Valley Historical Review

| abbreviation = J. Am. Hist.

| publisher = Oxford University Press (on behalf of the Organization of American Historians)

| country = United States

| frequency = Quarterly

| history = 1914–present

| impact = 0.684

| impact-year = 2009

| website = http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/

| link1 = https://academic.oup.com/jah/issue

| link1-name = Online access

| ISSN = 0021-8723

| OCLC = 1754428

| JSTOR = 00218723

| eISSN = 1936-0967

| LCCN = 41015235

}}

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The Journal of American History is the quarterly official academic journal of the Organization of American Historians. It covers the field of American history and was established in 1914 as the Mississippi Valley Historical Review, the official journal of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association. After the publication of its fiftieth volume, the recognition of a shift in the direction of the membership and its scholarship led to the name change in 1964.

The journal is headquartered in Bloomington, Indiana, where it has close ties to the History Department at Indiana University.