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Current History
Current History tributors a group of historians and social scientists. He
Editor Alan Sorensen enlisted the help of a Harvard historian, Albert Bushnell
Hart, in organizing the journal’s initial group of con-
Frequency 9 per year
tributing editors. Current History’s board of contributing
Publisher Daniel Mark Redmond editors today includes Catherine Boone (University of
Texas at Austin); Bruce Cumings (University of Chicago);
Founder George Washington Ochs Oakes
Deborah Davis (Yale University); David B. H. Denoon
First issue 1914 (1914-month) (New York University); Larry Diamond (Stanford Univer-
Country United States sity); Michele Dunne (Carnegie Endowment for Interna-
tional Peace); Barry Eichengreen (University of Califor-
Based in Philadelphia nia, Berkeley); C. Christine Fair (Georgetown University);
Language English Sumit Ganguly (Indiana University); Marshall Goldman
(Wellesley College); G. John Ikenberry (Princeton Univer-
Website www.currenthistory.com
sity); Michael T. Klare (Hampshire College); Joshua
ISSN 0011-3530 Kurlantzick (Council on Foreign Relations); Michael
McFaul (Stanford University, currently on leave); Rajan
Current History is the oldest United States-based publica- Menon (Lehigh University); Augustus Richard Norton
tion devoted exclusively to contemporary world affairs. (Boston University); Joseph Nye (Harvard University);
The magazine was founded in 1914 by George Washing- Michael Shifter (Inter-American Dialogue); Arturo Valen-
ton Ochs Oakes, brother of New York Times publisher zuela (Georgetown University, currently on leave); and
Adolph Ochs, in order to provide detailed coverage of Jeffrey Wasserstrom (University of California, Irvine).
World War I. Current History was published by The New The publication’s editor is Alan Sorensen.
York Times Company from its founding until 1936. Since The magazine was linked to an international scandal
1942 it has been owned by members of the Redmond fam- in the run-up to World War II. The New York Times had
ily; its current publisher is Daniel Mark Redmond.[1] sold Current History in 1936 to the editor Merle Tracy; in
Current History, based in Philadelphia, maintains no 1939 it was sold again, to an ownership group that includ-
institutional, political, or governmental affiliation. It is ed Joseph Hilton Smyth, who also acquired such mag-
published monthly, from September through May. Seven azines as The Living Age and The North American Review.
issues each year are devoted to world regions (China and Smyth’s association with Current History ended the same
East Asia, Russia and Eurasia, the Middle East, Latin year, but he and two associates, in connection with their
America, Europe, South Asia, and Africa); one issue cov- publishing activities, were later convicted of acting as
ers current global trends; and one issue addresses a spe- agents for the Japanese government without registering
cial theme such as climate change or global governance. with the State Department. Current History addressed this
The magazine has followed this practice of devoting each episode in its October 1942 issue, maintaining that Smyth
issue to a single region or theme since 1953. Each issue during the months that he held an ownership interest in
includes a chronology of major international events, and the publication did not control editorial policies." [2] [3]
most contain a book review section and an article devot-
ed to commentary.
Contributors to Current History in the publication’s
References
early years included George Bernard Shaw, Winston [1] The Philadelphia Daily News, "Just a Little Behind the
Churchill, Charles A. Beard, Allan Nevins, and Henry Times," Dec. 24, 1991.
Steele Commager. More recently, the journal has fea- [2] The New York Times, "3 Japanese Agents Get 7-Year
tured authors such as James Schlesinger, Francis Fukuya- Terms," Nov. 13, 1942.
ma, Jeffrey Sachs, Bruce Riedel, Leslie H. Gelb, Bruce Rus- [3] Current History, Oct. 1942, pp. 137-138.
sett, Elizabeth Economy, Charles Kupchan, Ivo Daalder,
Joseph Cirincione, Phebe Marr, Juan Cole, Bruce Gilley,
and Marina Ottaway.
External links
Shortly after Current History began publishing in 1914, • Current History’s website
its editor, Ochs Oakes, decided that a magazine recording
“history in the making” should maintain as regular con-
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