Historia y Sociedad

About the Journal

The Historia y Sociedad journal was founded in 1994 by Professor Luis Antonio Restrepo Arango. This publication is financed and edited by the National University of Colombia - Medellín campus – Faculty of Human and Economic Sciences – History Department. The journal publishes original, unpublished articles in Spanish, English and Portuguese that are the result of research from different approaches on any aspect of Colombian and Ibero-American history from the 16^th century to the history of the present time. It also publishes histographic reviews, transcriptions of archive documents and reviews on recent histographic production.  The objective of the journal is to open spaces for the dissemination of historical research by academics from all over the world and to promote its circulation among undergraduate and graduate students as well as the public at large, with the purpose of encouraging academic dialogs and strengthening knowledge of history and the humanities. The journal is aimed at a scientific audience that is geographically diverse and possesses a vast academic trajectory, and particularly, the journal publishes graduate social scientists, postgraduate students, professors, and active graduate researchers. The articles cannot be in a simultaneous evaluation process with another publication. The journal submits all the manuscripts to a plagiarism detection and content similarity verification tool. The double-blind evaluation system is carried out with external evaluators. The journal is published on a semester basis and publishes under an electronic format in January and July each year, with open access content in PDF and XML formats. Under no circumstances do authors or readers pay to send, publish or access the contents of the journal.