The Journal of Arizona History
Each issue of The Journal of Arizona History features original research articles and an extensive book review section that focuses on new works on Arizona, the American West, and the border region. A subscription to the journal is a benefit of Arizona Historical Society membership. Members also receive access to archived issues through JSTOR and Project MUSE. Not a member yet? Join today.
All AHS Members receive a copy of the journal. Individual copies can be purchased as well. Current year issues are $12.50 each. Prior year issues, if available, are $10 per copy. Special themed issues are $15 per copy. To order, visit the online store.
Submit an Article
To submit an article manuscript to the Journal of Arizona History, contact The Editor, Dr. David Turpie, at [email protected]. Authors are encouraged to read the submission guidelines before submitting a manuscript.
Past Special Issues
Arizona Zoos - Summer 2024
Journal of Arizona History
Summer 2024
Volume 65, Number 2
Featuring a photo essay of Reid Park Zoo with color photos!
Stating History: Arizona and Kentucky in Comparison - Autumn 2023
Journal of Arizona History
Autumn 2023
Volume 64, Number 3
"Stating History: Arizona and Kentucky in Comparison"
By Stephanie M. Lang and David C. Turpie
"'The Country Club on the Colorado': The Surprisingly Progressive Carceral System of the Arizona Territory"
By Eduardo Obregón Pagán
"Borderland Business: Slavery and Convict Leasing in Antebellum Kentucky"
By Charlene J. Fletcher
Indigenous Histories of Arizona - Summer 2023
Journal of Arizona History
Summer 2023
Volume 64, Number 2
Maurice Crandall, Guest Editor
"'As So Many Bengal Tigers': The U.S. Army, Native Scouts, and the Imagined Martial Races of the Southwest"
By Ryan W. Booth
"Sand People and Yellow Fever: O'odham Himdag, Arizona Territory, Calendar Sticks, and Resistance, 1851-1860"
By David Martínez
"A Manufactured Identity: Cattle-Raising, the Coolidge Dam, and the Creation of the San Carlos Apachean Peoples"
By Marcus Macktima
The Diary of Mim Walsh - Winter 2022
Imagining Arizona - Autumn 2022
Journal of Arizona History
Autumn 2022
Volume 63, Number 3
Kara L. McCormack, Guest Editor
"Between Place and Plot: Reimagining the Story of Arizona"
By Anita Huizar-Hernández
"Searching for Wyatt Earp in Anatolia: The Mythic West in the Turkish Imagination"
By Kara L. McCormack
"Souvenirs of the Past: Patricia Preciado Martin and the Preservation of Tucson’s Mexican American History"
By Victoria Herrera Cannon
"Where are all the Black Folks? Popular Narratives and the Erasure of Black History in Arizona"
By Meskerem Z. Glegziabher
"Strata of Meaning: Monument Valley in and out of Frame on the Navajo Nation"
By Liza Black, Josh Garrett-Davis, Mihio Manus, and Tommy Rock
"Confederate Memorials in Arizona: Imagining the Civil War in the West"
By Alison Fields
New Directions in Arizona Sport History - Winter 2021
Journal of Arizona History
Winter 2021
Volume 62, Number 4
"A 'Dumping Ground for Tramp Athletes': The Rise and Fall of the Border Intercollegiate Athletic Conference"
By Ryan Swanson
"The Borderlands of Integration: Arizona, Arizona State, and the Racial Desegregation of the Border Conference"
By S. Zebulon Baker
"'The 'ONLY' Woman Sport Scribe': The Career of Sally Jacobs at the Arizona Republican Newspaper, 1912-1922"
By Heidi J. Osselaer
Arizona Monuments and Memory - Summer 2021
Arizona Monuments and Memory
Summer 2021
Volume 62, Number 2
Mark Tebeau, guest editor
"Introduction: Arizona Monuments and Memory"
By Mark Tebeau
"Not Set in Stone: Civil War Memorialization at Picacho Pass and the Emergence of a Confederate Fantasy Heritage in Arizona"
By Christopher M. Bradley
"Myth, Memory, and the Limits of Inclusivity in Arizona Pioneer Monuments"
By Cynthia C. Prescott
"Making Invisible Memory Visible: Memorializing Japanese American Concentration Camps in Arizona and the West"
By Erin L. Smith
"Remembering the 307: A Call for LGBTQ Historic Preservation in Arizona"
By Carolyn Evans
"A Monument to Resilience: One Phoenix Building and the Three Communities It Served, 1955–2021"
By Volker Benkert, Kelly Bitler, Jason Bruner, Lauren McArthur Harris, Kevin McHugh, David Pijawka, Sharon C. Smith, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Marc Vance
Exploring Arizona’s Diverse Past - Autumn/Winter 2020
“Exploring Arizona’s Diverse Past”
Autumn/Winter 2020
Volume 61, Numbers 3 and 4
Katherine Morrissey, Guest Editor
“From Pima Villages to the Walker Mines: Anglos, Hispanos, and Natives in the Making of Civil War Arizona”
By Megan Kate Nelson
“The Sediments of History: Placing Arizona in the Columbian Exchange”
By Thomas D. Finger
“The Twining Paths of Mormons and ‘Lamanites’: From Arizona to Latin America”
By Daniel Herman
“Engendering the Long Nineteenth Century and Mapping Gender onto Arizona History”
By Katherine Sarah Massoth
“Beyond Border Spectacle: Oral History and Everyday Meaning in Chinese Mexican Tucson”
By Priscilla M. Martínez and Grace Peña Delgado
“Yava-Who?: Yavapai History and (Mis)Representation in Arizona’s Indigenous Landscape”
By Maurice Crandall
“On the Borders: Towns, Mobility, and Public Health in Mojave History”
By Juliet Larkin-Gilmore
“Change and Continuity in the Time of the Blob: Growth Politics in Postwar Arizona History”
By Andrew Needham
“Barry and Beyond: Conservatism in Arizona before, during, and after Its Most Famous Representative”
By Geraldo Cadava
“From Senior Citizen to Sun Citian: Aging and Race in Neoliberal Retirement”
By Flannery Burke
“Critical Indigenous Studies: A Lifetime of Theory and Practice”
By Jennifer Nez Denetdale
“Navigating the Border: The Struggle for Indigenous Sovereignty in the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands”
By Eric V. Meeks
“Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way?: Arizona History and the Nation”
By Katherine Benton-Cohen
The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Arizona and Beyond: A Roundtable on Heidi Osselaer’s Winning Their Place - Summer 2020
The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Arizona and Beyond: A Roundtable on Heidi Osselaer’s Winning Their Place
Summer 2020
Volume 61, Number 2
“Suffrage on the Frontier: How Arizona and Maine Women Pushed for Full Citizenship”
By Shannon M. Risk
“East Meets West: Comparing the New York and Arizona Woman Suffrage Campaigns”
By Karen Pastorello
“Responsible Citizens: Comparing Woman Suffrage in Arizona and South Dakota”
By Sara Egge
“They Think I have Forgotten all about the Past”: Suffragists’ Struggle for Acceptance in Politics in Arizona and Texas
By Rachel Michelle Gunter
“Where is Their Place? Mexican-Origin Women, Citizenship, and Suffrage in the Arizona Borderlands”
By Kif Augustine-Adams
"Winning Their Place Roundtable: A Response"
By Heidi J. Osselaer
ARTICLE
"'The Most Interesting Objects That Have Ever Arrived': Imperialist Nostalgia, State Politics, Hybrid Nature, and the Fall and Rise of Arizona’s Elk, 1866–1914"
By Michael A. Amundson
Barry Goldwater and the Election of 1964 - Spring 2020
Barry Goldwater and the Election of 1964
Spring 2020
Volume 61, Number 1
Donald T. Critchlow and David B. Frisk, guest editors
Preface
By David B. Frisk
“Barry Goldwater and 1964: A Beginning and an End”
By David Farber
“Would Goldwater Have Made a Good President?”
By Donald T. Critchlow
“Johnson versus Goldwater: The 1964 Presidential Election”
By Nancy Beck Young
“The 1964 Election: A Closer Look”
By David B. Frisk
“Man of the West: Goldwater’s Reflection in the Oasis of Frontier Conservatism”
By Sean P. Cunningham
“Barry’s Boys and Goldwater Girls: Barry Goldwater and the Mobilization of Young Conservatives in the Early 1960s”
By Wayne Thorburn
“A Non-Issue: Barry Goldwater and the Absence of Religion in the Election of 1964”
By Vincent J. Cannato
“Evicted from the Party: Black Republicans and the 1964 Election”
By Joshua D. Farrington
“Mortaging the Future: Barry Goldwater, Lyndon Johnson, and Vietnam inthe 1964 Presidential Election”
By Andrew L. Johns
“‘The Media Were Not completely Fair to You’: Foreign Policy, the Press, and the 1964 Goldwater Campaign”
By Lawrence R. Jurdem
Grand Canyon National Park at 100 - Winter 2019
Grand Canyon National Park at 100
Winter 2019
Volume 60, Number 4
Byron E. Pearson, guest editor
Introduction
By Byron E. Pearson
Nature and Environment of Grand Canyon
“These Dismal Abysses”: An Environmental History of Grand Canyon National Park
By Byron E. Pearson
“The Burro Evil”: The Removal of Feral Burros from Grand Canyon National Park, 1924–1983
By Abbie Harlow
Grand Canyon in Art and Literature
One Canyon, Countless Canyon Stories: Exploring the Narrative Grand Canyon
By Kim Engel-Pearson
Cultural Artifact and Work of Art: Grand Canyon Landscape Painting
By Amy Ilona Stein
Science and Tourism in Grand Canyon
Viewing Power and Place at the Grand Canyon: Grand View Point, 1880–1926
By Yolonda Youngs
An Interview with the Great Unconformity: Howie Usher, Scientist and River Guide
By Howie Usher, Amy Ilona Stein, and Byron E. Pearson
Law and Policy of Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon as Legal Creation
By Jason Anthony Robison
Grand Adaptation: A Dammed River and a Confluence of Interests
By Jennifer Sweeney and Paul Hirt
Mapping Grand Canyon
Rescaling Geography: Grand Canyon Exploratory and Topographic Mapping, 1777–1978
By Matthew Toro
One Hundred and Sixty Years of Grand Canyon Geological Mapping
By Karl Karlstrom, Laura Crossey, Peter Huntoon, George Billingsley, Michael Timmons, and Ryan Crow
Journal of Arizona History
Summer 2024
Volume 65, Number 2
“Arizona’s Zoos: An Introduction”
By David C. Turpie
“Arabia in Arizona: How the Phoenix Zoo Helped Save a Species”
By Courtney Lamb
“‘Then Someone Gave Us a Monkey’: The Early Years of Tucson’s Reid Park Zoo”
By David Leighton
“The Early Years of Reid Park Zoo: A Photo Essay”
By David Leighton
View the full issue on Project MUSE.
Announcements:
Journal of Arizona History staff will be at the joint Western History Association and Southern History Association conference in Kansas City this October, see you there!