This series consist of records relating to the Canadian Historical Association's publication initiatives. The records include draft and published manuscripts, correspondence with authors, galley proofs, reference material, invoices, peer reviews, records of the editorial board, permission forms, reports, minutes of the Publication committee, copyright permissions, reprint requests, and memoranda. The CHA's most significant publishing programs documented in this series are the Historical Booklets series; the Ethnic Groups Booklets series; the Register of Dissertations; the newsletter or bulletin; and the Journal of the CHA. But the series also hold records of one-off or occasional publications.
The peer-reviewed Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada is a continuation of the earlier series, Annual Reports and Historical Papers of the Canadian Historical Association (1922-1965) and Historical Papers / Communications historiques (1966-1989). The journal publishes the best of the papers of the annual conference which are submitted to the editorial board. The Historical Booklets series, a numbered series of short booklets on different historical subjects, published between 1953 and 2003, made the latest scholarship available in a popular and accessible format for secondary and undergraduate students, general readers, and historians. Building on this series, the CHA created Canada's Ethnic Groups Booklets (later renamed Immigration and Ethnicity in Canada), a series of booklets with concise histories of particular aspects of immigration and ethnicity in Canada. Both series were published in both French and English. The newsletters of the CHA, the CHA Newsletter (1975-1990) and the CHA Bulletin (1990- ), hold news and comment on matters of interest to professional historians in Canada. The Register of Post-Graduate Dissertations in Progress in History and other subjects (1966-1998) listed the research projects under way by students enrolled in history programs at Canadian universities, either at the Masters or PhD level. In addition, this series holds records of the handbook, Becoming a Historian, intended to provide guidance and practical advice to graduate history students in Canadian universities and junior history professors employed in Canadian institutions.
