The Catholic Historical Review is the official organ of The American Catholic Historical Association. The peer-reviewed journal was founded at The Catholic University of America (CUA) and has been published there since 1915. It is the only scholarly journal under Catholic auspices in the English-speaking world devoted to the history of the universal Church. It publishes articles, review articles, book reviews, and lists of books received in all areas of church history. Regular membership in the ACHA includes a copy of the quarterly.

Meet the Editor

Dr. Nelson H. Minnich has been associated with The Catholic Historical Review for more than forty years, serving first as an associate editor and advisory editor. He became editor of the journal in 2005. Dr. Minnich has received degrees in philosophy and history from Boston College, a degree in theology from the Gregorian University in Rome, and a doctorate in history from Harvard University in 1977. He is professor of Renaissance and Reformation history in the Department of History and of church history in the Program of Church History in the School of Theology and Religious Studies of The Catholic University of America. For more information on him, download his CV [PDF].

Meet the Staff

• Editor: Nelson H. Minnich, The Catholic University of America, Washington , D.C.
• Associate Editor: Robert Trisco, The Catholic University of America
• Staff Editor: Elizabeth Foxwell
• Book Review Assistant: Daniel Frascella
• Secretary: Rita Bogley

Editor’s Reports:

• Download the Editor’s 2010 report [PDF]
• Download the Editor’s 2009 report in [PDF]

Submission of Articles

If you would like to know how to submit articles for The Catholic Historical Review please click here for submission policy and style sheet.

The CHR style guide for book reviews can be downloaded here.

The Present Issue: January 2012

The present issue is available in printed form through Catholic University of America Press and online through Project Muse.

The Catholic Historical Review

Volume 98, Number 1, January

• For Prosperity or Penury: A Comparison of Large and Small English Augustinian Houses and Their Lay Patrons in Late-Medieval England
  Nick Nichols

• The New Elites of Italian Catholicism: 1968 and the New Catholic Movements
  Massimo Faggioli

• Catholic Cacophony: Richard Nixon, the Church, and Welfare Reform
  Lawrence J. McAndrews