Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History

2013 - 2025

Current editor(s): J. David Hacker and Kenneth Sylvester

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Volume 58, issue 1, 2025

Understanding patterns of engagement in the citizen humanities: The civil records of Suriname pp. 1-16

M. Prats López, T. Van Oort, W. Ganzevoort, C. Van Galen and R. J. Mourits

Identifying prominent actors in historical networks: The case of the New Education movement pp. 17-30

Lauri Luoto

Geo-coding addresses in historic British census data: An open methodology pp. 31-53

Joshua Rhodes

Lineage genealogies as a new source for researching the occupational structure of twentieth-century China: Tradition (partially) transformed pp. 54-79

Ying Dai

Volume 57, issue 4, 2024

Recent advances in social metabolism research: Sources and methods pp. 199-204

Andrew Watson, Simone Gingrich and Joshua MacFadyen

Socio-ecological metabolism and rural livelihood conditions: Two case studies on forest litter uses in France and Poland (1875–1910) pp. 205-225

Jawad Daheur and Julia Le Noë

Beyond fossil fuels: Considering land-based emissions reshapes the carbon intensity of modern economic growth (Spain, 1860–2017) pp. 226-241

Juan Infante-Amate and Eduardo Aguilera

Estimating energy flows in the long run: Agriculture in the United States, 1800–2020 pp. 242-251

Robert Suits and Elisabeth Moyer

Timber trade in the United States of America 1870 to 2017. A socio-metabolic analysis pp. 252-266

Léonore Darrobers, Simone Gingrich and Andreas Magerl

Downtown Toronto’s emergent properties: Exploring new methods for using port records to disaggregate urban metabolism in Toronto, Ontario, 1850-1926 pp. 267-282

Andrew Watson, Joshua MacFadyen and Hannah Willness

Volume 57, issue 3, 2024

Constructing a county-level environmental events dataset for China during the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368–1911) pp. 123-145

Kai Cheng, Sami Bensassi, Robert Elliott and Eric Strobl

Ghosts and the machine: testing the use of Artificial Intelligence to deliver historical life course biographies from big data pp. 146-162

Mark A. McLean, David Andrew Roberts and Martin Gibbs

Reconstructing a slave society: Building the DWI panel, 1760-1914 pp. 163-184

Stefania Galli, Dimitrios Theodoridis and Klas Rönnbäck

Structural reading: Developing the method of Structural Collocation Analysis using a case study on parliamentary reporting pp. 185-198

Mathias Johansson and Betto van Waarden

Volume 57, issue 2, 2024

New area- and population-based geographic crosswalks for U.S. counties and congressional districts, 1790–2020 pp. 67-79

Andreas Ferrara, Patrick A. Testa and Liyang Zhou

Exploring French venality in the seventeenth century: Insights from a new database on offices pp. 80-99

Emilie Bonhoure, Olivier Musy and Ronan Tallec

Counting question 20 on the 1870 census, the denial of the right to vote: Different tallies by the Census Office; the Minnesota Population Center; and Ancestry.com pp. 100-122

James W. Oberly

Volume 57, issue 1, 2024

Built-up areas of nineteenth-century Britain. An integrated methodology for extracting high-resolution urban footprints from historical maps pp. 1-19

Alexis D. Litvine, Arthur Starzec, Rehmana Younis, Yannick Faula, Mickaël Coustaty, Leigh Shaw-Taylor and Véronique Églin

Transparent generosity. Introducing the impresso interface for the exploration of semantically enriched historical newspapers pp. 20-40

Marten Düring, Estelle Bunout and Daniele Guido

Three new occupational status indices for England and Wales, 1800–1939 pp. 41-66

Gregory Clark, Neil Cummins and Matthew Curtis

Volume 56, issue 4, 2023

“Born yesterday, baptized today, buried tomorrow”: Early baptism as an indicator of negative life outcomes in rural Spain, 1890-1939 pp. 199-222

Francisco Marco-Gracia

Children and grandchildren of Union Army veterans: New data collections to study the persistence of longevity and socioeconomic status across generations pp. 223-239

Dora Costa, Coralee Lewis and Noelle Yetter

The problem of false positives in automated census linking: Nineteenth-century New York’s Irish immigrants as a case study pp. 240-259

Cormac Ó Gráda, Tyler Anbinder, Dylan Connor and Simone A. Wegge

Volume 56, issue 3, 2023

Introduction to editorial pp. 133-133

Lisa Dillon, Joshua MacFadyen and Hilde Leikny Sommerseth

Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency pp. 134-137

Kamran Abbasi, Parveen Ali, Virginia Barbour, Thomas Benfield, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Gregory E. Erhabor, Stephen Hancocks, Richard Horton, Laurie Laybourn-Langton, Robert Mash, Peush Sahni, Wadeia Mohammad Sharief, Paul Yonga and Chris Zielinski

The creation of LIFE-M: The Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-Database project pp. 138-159

Martha Bailey, Peter Lin, A. R. Shariq Mohammed, Paul Mohnen, Jared Murray, Mengying Zhang and Alexa Prettyman

Unlocking archival censuses for spatial analysis: An historical dataset of the administrative units of Galicia 1857–1910 pp. 160-175

Krzysztof Ostafin, Mateusz Troll, Krzysztof Ślusarek, Anatoliy Smaliychuk, Anna Miklar, Krzysztof Gwosdz, Natalia Kolecka and Dominik Kaim

Modeling systems of sentencing in early inquisition trials: Crime, social connectivity, and punishment in the register of Peter Seila (1241–2) pp. 176-197

Robert L. J. Shaw, Tomáš Hampejs and David Zbíral

Correction pp. 198-198

The Editors

Volume 56, issue 2, 2023

Behind the numbers: Authorities’ approach to measuring disability in Swedish populations from 1860 to 1930 pp. 63-76

Maria J. Wisselgren and Lotta Vikström

Adapting to the Little Ice Age in pastoral regions: An interdisciplinary approach to climate history in north-west Europe pp. 77-96

Eugene Costello, Kevin Kearney and Benjamin Gearey

Latin American exports during the first globalization: How statistical aggregation and standardization affect our understanding of trade pp. 97-114

Marc Badia-Miró, Anna Carreras-Marín and Agustina Rayes

The use of quantile methods in economic history pp. 115-132

Damian Clarke, Manuel Llorca Jaña and Daniel Pailañir

Volume 56, issue 1, 2023

Measuring mercantile concentration in eighteenth-century British America: Charleston, 1735–1775 pp. 1-17

Peter A. Coclanis and Tomoko Yagyu

The healthscaping approach: Toward a global history of early public health pp. 18-33

G. Geltner and J. Coomans

Applications of machine learning in tabular document digitisation pp. 34-48

Christian Dahl, Torben S. D. Johansen, Emil N. Sørensen, Christian E. Westermann and Simon Wittrock

A reassessment of industrial growth in interwar Turkey through first-generation sectoral estimates pp. 49-62

Ulaş Karakoç

Volume 55, issue 4, 2022

Detecting Ottokar II’s 1248–1249 uprising and its instigators in co-witnessing networks pp. 189-208

Jeremi K. Ochab, Jan Škvrňák and Michael Škvrňák

Deep mapping the daily spaces of children and youth in the industrial city pp. 209-227

Timothy Stone, Don Lafreniere and Rose Hildebrandt

Exploring the transformation of French trade in the long eighteenth century (1713–1823): The TOFLIT18 project pp. 228-258

Loïc Charles, Guillaume Daudin, Paul Girard and Guillaume Plique

Volume 55, issue 3, 2022

Internal migrant trajectories within The Netherlands, 1850–1972: Applying cluster analysis and dissimilarity tree methods pp. 123-144

Dolores Sesma Carlos, Jan Kok and Michel Oris

Drawing constitutional boundaries: A digital historical analysis of the writing process of Pinochet’s 1980 authoritarian constitution pp. 145-167

Rodrigo Cordero, Aldo Mascareño, Pablo A. Henríquez and Gonzalo A. Ruz

U.S. demography in transition pp. 168-188

Emily Klancher Merchant and Carrie S. Alexander

Volume 55, issue 2, 2022

British employer census returns in new digital records 1851–81; consistency, non-response, and truncation – what this means for analysis pp. 61-77

Robert J. Bennett and Leslie Hannah

The regional occupational structure in interwar England and Wales pp. 78-97

Robin C. M. Philips, Matteo Calabrese, Robert Keenan and Bas van Leeuwen

Inferring “missing girls” from child sex ratios in historical census data pp. 98-121

Mikołaj Szołtysek, Bartosz Ogórek, Siegfried Gruber and Francisco Beltrán Tapia

Volume 55, issue 1, 2022

The antebellum roots of distinctively black names pp. 1-11

Lisa D. Cook, John Parman and Trevon Logan

A new strategy for linking U.S. historical censuses: A case study for the IPUMS multigenerational longitudinal panel pp. 12-29

Jonas Helgertz, Joseph Price, Jacob Wellington, Kelly J Thompson, Steven Ruggles and Catherine A. Fitch

Overflowing tables: Changes in the energy intake and the social context of Thanksgiving in the United States pp. 30-44

Diana Thomas, Gail Yoshitani, Dusty Turner, Ajay Hariharan, Surabhi Bhutani, David B Allison, Amanda Moniz, Steven Heymsfield, Dale A Schoeller, Holly Hull and David Fields

EconHist: a relational database for analyzing the evolution of economic history (1980–2019) pp. 45-60

Alvaro La Parra-Perez, Félix-Fernando Muñoz and Nadia Fernandez-de-Pinedo