Federal History -- January 2012

About the Journal

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Federal History is published annually online and in print by the Society for History in the Federal Government in Washington, DC. The journal promotes scholarship on all aspects of the history and workings of the federal government, and of critical historical interactions between American society and the U.S. government, including the U.S. military, 1776 to the present. It also publishes articles investigating contemporary issues and challenges in federal history work, including the fields of history, archival science, historic preservation, public history, museum studies, web–based history, memory studies, and other related areas. The journal highlights studies by historians working in or for federal agencies as well as independent scholars, many of which originate as presentations at the Society’s annual conference in the Washington, DC, area.

The Society was established in 1979, and its members include historians and public historians, archivists, curators, administrators, editors, educators, librarians, and others working in the federal history community in both the Washington, DC, area and nationwide, as well as nonfederal historians. The history offices represented in the membership include those in military and civil agencies. Views and conclusions are those of the contributing authors and do not necessarily represent positions of the journal or the Society for History in the Federal Government.

We welcome your contributions. Send your manuscript, an abstract, brief biographical information, and information on available images to the journal editors at editor-shfg-journal@shfg.org.

Editor

Benjamin Guterman

Product Development Branch
National Archives and Records Administration
Washington, DC

Assistant Editor

Judson MacLaury
Retired Historian, U.S. Department of Labor