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    2025 CiteScore

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Samuel Clowes Huneke
Sam Lebovic

About JSH

As a top-ranked journal in the field of social history, publishing articles in social history from all regions from the early modern period to the present, JSH is widely recognized for its high-quality and innovative scholarship.

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Prize-Winning Articles

2025 A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize (Award for the best article published during the preceding year in the field of southern women’s history), Southern Association for Women Historians

"Midwives of Invention: Black Healers and Reconciling Worldviews of Wellness in American Emancipation" by Abigail J Cooper

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