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 51, issue 4, 2018

After “it’s over over there”: Using record linkage to enable the reconstruction of World War I veterans’ demography from soldiers’ experiences to civilian populations pp. 203-229

Angela R. Cunningham

The Linkage of Microcensus Data and Vital Records: an Assessment of Results on Quebec Historical Population Data (1852–1911) pp. 230-245

Hélène Vézina, Marc St-Hilaire, Jean-Sébastien Bournival and Claude Bellavance

Linking the 1940 U.S. Census with modern data pp. 246-257

Catherine G. Massey, Katie R. Genadek, J. Trent Alexander, Todd K. Gardner and Amy O’Hara

Volume 51, issue 3, 2018

Large-scale content analysis of historical newspapers in the town of Gorizia 1873–1914 pp. 139-164

Nello Cristianini, Thomas Lansdall-Welfare and Gaetano Dato

Dacura: A new solution to data harvesting and knowledge extraction for the historical sciences pp. 165-174

Peter N. Peregrine, Rob Brennan, Thomas Currie, Kevin Feeney, Pieter François, Peter Turchin and Harvey Whitehouse

More than trees: The challenges of creating a geodatabase to capture the complexity of forest history pp. 175-189

Péter Szabó, Silvie Suchánková, Lucie Křížová, Martin Kotačka, Martina Kvardová, Martin Macek, Jana Müllerová and Rudolf Brázdil

Chronicle of an early demise, surname extinction in the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries pp. 190-201

Joan Pau Jordà, Jose Ameijeiras-Alonso and Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora

Volume 51, issue 2, 2018

Revisiting the structuring effect of transportation infrastructure: An empirical approach with the French railway network from 1860 to 1910 pp. 65-81

Christophe Mimeur, François Queyroi, Arnaud Banos and Thomas Thévenin

The naming of orphans in France during World War One: A study of a nationwide cohort of pupilles de la Nation pp. 82-91

Nicolas Todd, Alain-Jacques Valleron and Pierre Bougnères

The Potsdam Grievance Statistics File. New data on quality of life and political participation for the German Democratic Republic 1970–1989 pp. 92-114

Fabian Class, Ulrich Kohler and Marian Krawietz

Regional GDP estimates for Sweden, 1571–1850 pp. 115-137

Kerstin Enflo and Anna Missiaia

Volume 51, issue 1, 2018

The weight of nineteenth century Mexicans in the Western United States pp. 1-12

Scott Alan Carson

Age heaping patterns in Mosaic data pp. 13-38

Mikołaj Szołtysek, R. Poniat and S. Gruber

Revisiting the Great Compression: Wage inequality in the United States, 1940–1960 pp. 39-48

Taylor Jaworski and Gregory Niemesh

Was Civil War surgery effective? pp. 49-61

Matthew Baker

Volume 50, issue 4, 2017

Does a turbulent history lead to turbulent life expectancy trends? Evidence from the Baltic States pp. 191-209

Jacques Vallin, Domantas Jasilionis and France Meslé

The measurement of ancestral roots with genealogical data pp. 210-217

Marc Tremblay

Combining growth and level data: An estimation of the population of Belgian municipalities between 1880 and 1970 pp. 218-226

Stijn Ronsse and Samuel Standaert

A third road to the past? Historical scholarship in the age of big data pp. 227-244

Roberto Franzosi

End of volume editorial board pp. ebi-ebi

The Editors

Volume 50, issue 3, 2017

Playing with matches: An assessment of accuracy in linked historical data pp. 129-143

Catherine G. Massey

Immigrants and savers: A rich new database on the Irish in 1850s New York pp. 144-155

Simone A. Wegge, Tyler Anbinder and Cormac Ó Gráda

Cock-ups and slap-downs: A quantitative analysis of conspiracy rhetoric in the British Parliament 1916–2015 pp. 156-169

Andrew McKenzie-McHarg and Rolf Fredheim

The equally “bad” French and English farmers of Quebec: New TFP measures from the 1831 census pp. 170-189

Vincent Geloso, Michael Hinton and Vadim Kufenko

Volume 50, issue 2, 2017

Trends in real wages in Denmark since the Late Middle Ages pp. 67-78

Kim Abildgren

Union Army veterans, all grown up pp. 79-95

Dora Costa, Heather DeSomer, Eric Hanss, Christopher Roudiez, Sven E. Wilson and Noelle Yetter

Colonial Virginia's paper money regime, 1755–74: A forensic accounting reconstruction of the data pp. 96-112

Farley Grubb

War-related excess mortality in The Netherlands, 1944–45: New estimates of famine- and non-famine-related deaths from national death records pp. 113-128

Peter Ekamper, Govert Bijwaard, Frans van Poppel and L. H. Lumey

Volume 50, issue 1, 2017

Deceptive data? The role of the investigators in the New Survey of London Life and Labour 1928–32 pp. 1-15

Simon Abernethy

Testing child-woman ratios and the own-children method on the 1900 Sweden census: Examples of indirect fertility estimates by socioeconomic status in a historical population pp. 16-29

Francesco Scalone and Martin Dribe

Exploring trade globalization in the long run: The RICardo project pp. 30-48

Béatrice Dedinger and Paul Girard

Emergence of an integrated city-system in France (XVIIth–XIXth centuries): Evidence from toolset in graph theory pp. 49-65

Anne Bretagnolle and Alain Franc

Volume 49, issue 4, 2016

Segregation and neighborhood change in northern cities: New historical GIS data from 1900–1930 pp. 187-197

Allison Shertzer, Randall Walsh and John R. Logan

Measuring cost escalation in the formative era of U.S. higher education, 1875–1930 pp. 198-219

Bruce A. Kimball and Jeremy B. Luke

Phrasing history: Selecting sources in digital repositories pp. 220-229

Hieke Huistra and Bram Mellink

Suburban built form and street network development in London, 1880–2013: An application of quantitative historical methods pp. 230-243

Ashley Dhanani

Editorial Board EOV pp. 244-244

The Editors

Volume 49, issue 3, 2016

Geoparsing history: Locating commodities in ten million pages of nineteenth-century sources pp. 115-131

Jim Clifford, Beatrice Alex, Colin M. Coates, Ewan Klein and Andrew Watson

Ottoman inheritance inventories as a source for price history pp. 132-144

Pınar Ceylan

The end of the Ottoman Empire as reflected in the İstanbul bourse pp. 145-156

Avni Hanedar, Elmas Yaldız Hanedar and Erdost Torun

Economic gains from migration to the urban western frontier in the United States, 1900--1910: A longitudinal analysis pp. 157-168

Raaj Tiagi

Range of motion and energy cost of locomotion of the late medieval armoured fighter: A proof of concept of confronting the medieval technical literature with modern movement analysis pp. 169-186

Daniel Jaquet, Alice Bonnefoy Mazure, Stéphane Armand, Caecilia Charbonnier, Jean-Luc Ziltener and Bengt Kayser

Volume 49, issue 2, 2016

Participative political institutions in pre-modern Europe: Introducing a new database pp. 67-79

Fabian Wahl

Weighing the fog of war: Illustrating the power of Bayesian methods for historical analysis through the Battle of the Dogger Bank pp. 80-91

Niall MacKay, Christopher Price and A. Jamie Wood

Court-day crowds in colonial Virginia pp. 92-100

Turk McCleskey and James C. Squire

Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane's experiment in press freedom: A quantitative evaluation through media system dependency pp. 101-114

Andrew D. Pritchard

Volume 49, issue 1, 2016

From historical documents to GIS: A spatial database for medieval fiscal data in Southern Italy pp. 1-10

Daniela Carrion, Federica Migliaccio, Guido Minini and Cynthia Zambrano

Under-enumeration, inconsistency, and bias in the U.S. Manufacturing Census 1860--1880: Case studies from the American manufacturing belt pp. 11-33

Richard G. Healey

Advanced ages at death in Sápmi during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: With special attention to longevity among the Sami population pp. 34-49

Lena Karlsson

New light on Roman census papyri through semi-automated record linkage pp. 50-65

Saskia Hin, Dalia A. Conde and Adam Lenart