Ohio History is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...

 academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 covering the history of Ohio

History of Ohio

The history of Ohio includes many thousands of years of human activity. What is now Ohio was probably first settled by Paleo-Indian peoples, who lived in the area as early as 13,000 BCE. Later ancestors of Native Americans were known as the Archaic peoples...

 and the Midwest. The journal was established in 1887 and published by the Ohio Historical Society

Ohio Historical Society

The Ohio Historical Society is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1885 as The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society "to promote a knowledge of archaeology and history, especially in Ohio"...

. Since 2007 it is published annually by the Kent State University Press. The Ohio Historical Society maintains an online, searchable archive of volumes 1–113, sponsored by the Ohio Public Library Information Network.

History

The journal has been known by a variety of names:

• Vol. 1–2 Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly
• Vol. 3–43 Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications
• Vol. 44–58 Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly
• Vol. 59–63 Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly
• Vol. 64–70 The Ohio Historical Quarterly
• Vol. 71–present Ohio History

The disclaimer at the archive warns of potential offensive language in older volumes.

External links

• Online archive of past volumes of Ohio History