Where to read EH (and its predecessors)

The usual answer is these links: for published articles, best articles, ahead-of-print articles, online multimedia, and subscriptions. But, however those links worked for you, there are more means of access that can help everyone from first-time readers to experienced researchers.

You can access Environmental History through:

University of Chicago Press

JSTOR

Libraries

Other databases

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Note: Some options below refer to Environmental History's predecessor journals:

University of Chicago Press

UCP is EH's publisher; full-text access at UCP is a benefit of joining ASEH or FHS. (Or both! But as of 2025 there is no longer such a thing as a joint FHS/ASEH membership.) Here is some additional guidance on logging in and searching.

Logging in: ASEH members log in at ASEH

For ASEH membership the only way to full-text access at UCP is to go through ASEH's link every time. UCP's website won't "remember" you, though ASEH's can. UCP's EH page will then say "Access provided by American Society for Environmental History" and you will have full-text access to EH. You don't need a UCP login.

Logging in: FHS membership adds an "entitlement" to your UCP login

FHS will email you instructions with an "Access Token" (a string of characters like JHDFSKJHDFKSJHDF), which gets you an "Access Entitlement" (i.e. UCP knows you get EH). After that first time you log in at UCP, the journal's page will say "Access provided by Forest History Society" and you will have full-text access to EH. See UCP's instructions for links and details.

Logging in: Details to disregard

• Cookies: Neither process leaves any access cookie on your computer, so there is no need to repeat any process for each computer you use.
• "Subscriptions": The separate process at UCP > log in > Profile > Add / Manage Subscriptions is (normally) irrelevant to ASEH / FHS members.
• "Expiration date": Ignore this date at UCP > login > Profile > Access Entitlements. It is not the end-date of your society membership(s), and in fact is the same date for everyone.
• FHS website login: In terms of accessing EH there is no such thing.

Searching EH at UCP

This works well: Run one of the (first four) searches below, then click the small "REFINE SEARCH" link. (Not the "SEARCH Anywhere" box; that will start you over with all UCP journals. And regardless of what combination of EH-related journals you ask it to search, the results will indeed be from one of the following combinations.)

Search all EH journals (FHN + JFH + FCH + ER + EHR + EH, 1957-present)

Search EH only (1996-present)

Search the ASEH journals (ER + EHR + EH, 1976-present)

Search the FHS journals (FHN + JFH + FCH + EH, 1957-present)

Browse EH only (1996-present)

Browse the ASEH predecessors (ER + EHR, 1976-1995)

Browse the FHS predecessors (FHN + JFH + FCH, 1957-1995)

JSTOR

JSTOR's EH archive has some tradeoffs: some free access, but that access is partial and includes nothing from the last 5.x years. Libraries offer JSTOR access to patrons and alumni, but you can also get it directly.

The free individual account (i.e. without the additional paid JPASS subscription) allows on-screen reading (but not download) of six free articles per month from some journals, including Environmental History from 1996 through this-year-minus-six, all of Environmental History Review and Environmental Review— but not Forest & Conservation History, the Journal of Forest History, or Forest History (Newsletter).

Environmental History (1996 through six years ago)

Environmental History Review (1990-1995)

Environmental Review (1976-1990)

Forest & Conservation History (1990-1995)

Journal of Forest History (1974-1989)

Forest History Newsletter / Forest History (1957-1973)

Libraries

Thousands of libraries have EH on-line and/or on-shelf, and thousands more can guide you to libraries that do, or can order you articles by interlibrary loan. Often a library is not only free but has the highest level of online access— though sometimes via a web of databases, so ask a librarian for help. WorldCat is a vast cooperative effort, so take the following searches as just a starting point, or better yet call your library.

Environmental History (1996-present)

Environmental History Review (1990-1995)

Environmental Review (1976-1990)

Forest & Conservation History (1990-1995)

Journal of Forest History (1974-1989)

Forest History (1958-1973)

Forest History Newsletter (1957)

Other databases

The University of Chicago Press maintains a list of abstracting and indexing services that index EH.