The journal is published by Duke University Press on behalf of the Society for French Historical Studies.

Evelyn Acomb, a historian of French laïcité, found that France lay largely outside the scope of North American historians.

The Society's journal was established in 1958 with Marvin L. Brown Jr., a diplomatic historian from North Carolina State College in Raleigh, was the first editor-in-chief.

As of 2023,[update] it is edited by Christine Haynes at the University of Carolina in Charlotte and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer at the university of Massachusetts in Amherst.

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