Categories CategoriesEach citation in Recent Scholarship is assigned multiple subject categories to add in searching.
An asterisk (*) next to a category indicates a category that we added to our system as of April 2004. As a result, records that were entered into the system prior to this date do not utilize these categories. When using these categories in a search, try additional keyword or category searches without using these newer categories to find more items of interest.
List of Recent Scholarship Categories:
| Category | Further description |
| African American | African Americans, slavery, the abolitionist movement, and the civil rights movement |
| Agricultural | farming and agricultural life and culture |
| American Indian | |
| Antebellum | the 1820s–1860 period |
| Archives and Bibliography | general archival materials and bibliographies |
| Asian American | Asian Americans as immigrants and as an ethnic group (see also Ethnicity; Immigration and Migration) |
| Biography | life of individuals or groups of individuals |
| Business and Economics | business, economics, and business aspects of industry |
| Childhood and Youth | Includes children and teenagers |
| Civil War and Reconstruction | the 1860–1877 period, and memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction |
| Class | |
| Cold War | domestic and international, cultural and political Cold War |
| Colonial | the pre-1775 period, and memory of the colonial period (see also Revolutionary and Early National) |
| Crime and Violence | crime, violence, police, gun control, death penalty (see also Social Welfare and Public Health) |
| Demography | |
| East | Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont |
| Education | education of children, and colleges and universities |
| Environment and Natural Resources | environmental movement, landscapes, natural resources, plants, and animals |
| Ethnicity | ethnic qualities and affiliations (see also Asian American; Jewish; Latino/a) |
| Family | marriage, kinfolk, and family life (see also Children and Childhood) |
| Film | production and reception of film |
| Gay and Lesbian | (see also Gender, Masculinity, and Femininity; and Sexuality) |
| Gender, Masculinity, and Femininity | gender, gender relations, femininity, and men and masculinity (see also Gay and Lesbian; Sexuality; and Women) |
| Gilded Age and Progressive Era | the 1877–1920 period |
| Immigration and Migration | immigrants, immigrant life (see also Asian Americans, Ethnicity, Jewish, Latino/a) |
| Intellectual | intellectuals and aspects of intellectual culture |
| Interdisciplinary Theory/Studies | anthro, folklore, lit crit, various studies, questions of the body, identity |
| International Relations | political, economic, and cultural aspects of international relations, the atomic bomb, and the arms race |
| Jewish | Jewish people as a religious, ethnic, and immigrant group (see also Ethnicity and Immigration and Migration) |
| Labor and Working Class | labor, occupations, workers, and labor unions |
| Latino/a | Latinos and Latinas as an ethnic group and as immigrants |
| Legal and Constitutional | trials, court cases, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution |
| Mass Communications | radio, television, propaganda, and the Internet (see also Print Culture) |
| Material Culture and Architecture | history of objects and architecture |
| Medicine | medical care, hospitals, disease, and medical professions |
| Midwest | Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin |
| Migration/Migrant | Westward migration, the Great Migration, movement within US borders |
| Military | (see also Civil War and Reconstruction; Naval and Maritime; Vietnam War; and World War II) |
| Music | production, performance, and reception of music, including opera, orchestral music, and most musical theater |
| Naval and Maritime | water-based transportation, including its use in the military (see also Military; Transportation, Travel, and Exploration) |
| Peace | antiwar movements and antinuclear proliferation |
| Politics | politics and government |
| Presidential | Aspects of the presidential office and life, comparative treatment of presidents |
| Print Culture | journalism, periodical, literacy, books, and comic books (see also Mass Communications) |
| Public History and Memory | memorials, commemorations, museums, oral history, and memory |
| Race | racism, interracial relations, whiteness, white abolitionists and civil rights workers, and opposition to desegregation or racial or ethnic equality |
| Religion | |
| Revolutionary and Early National | the 1775–1820s period, and memory of the Revolutionary War and early America (see also Colonial) |
| Rural | Aspects of small town/rural life and culture |
| Science and Technology | telephones and telegraphs, tools of industry, computers, and space exploration (see also Medicine; Transportation, Travel, and Exploration) |
| Sexuality | (see also Gay and Lesbian; Gender, Masculinity, and Femininity; Women) |
| Slavery | slave life and culture, slave narratives, abolitionists, anti-slavery literature |
| Social and Cultural | consumerism, food, libraries, the home front in twentieth-century wars, worlds fairs, conventions |
| Social Movements | radical political organizing, 1960s protest groups |
| Social Welfare and Public Health | reform, disability, the New Deal welfare reform, and philanthropy (see also Crime and Violence) |
| South | Alabama, Arkansas, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia |
| Sports and Recreation | sports, leisure, vacations,amusement parks, and national parks |
| Teaching, Surveys, and Textbooks | surveys and textbooks of history, and scholarship on the teaching of history |
| Technology, Industry, and Transportation | use of this category was discontinued beginning with the Sept. 2004 issue (see also Science and Technology; Transportation, Travel, and Exploration) |
| Theory and Methodology | |
| Transnational and Comparative | transnational and comparative aspects of the study and teaching of history, including Atlantic world and Pacific rim studies |
| Transportation, Travel, and Exploration | transportation, travel, and exploration, including trains, subways, automobiles, and travel writers (see also Naval and Maritime) |
| Urban and Suburban | cities and suburbs |
| Vietnam War | involvement of the United States in war in Vietnam in the mid-twentieth century, including Vietnam home front |
| Visual and Performing Arts | visual art, dancing, and theater (see also Music) |
| West | Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawai’i, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming |
| Women | |
| World War I and Interwar (1914-1941) | |
| World War II | involvement of the United States in World War II, including the home front |