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Redaktur utama

• Heinrich Best (Jena), juga Redaktur pelaksana
• Wilhelm H. Schroder (Cologne), juga Pemimpin redaksi pelaksana

Redaktur pelaksana

• Wilhelm H. Schroder , Editor-In-Chief (Cologne)
• Nina Baur (Berlin)
• Heinrich Best (Jena)
• Rainer Diaz-Bone (Lucerne)
• Philip J. Janssen (Cologne)
• Johannes Marx (Bamberg)

HSR telah meliput sejumlah besar topik sejak didirikan pada 1976. Berikut ini adalah ikhtisar singkat volume dalam lima tahun terakhir:

Tahun 2019

• Volume 44.3 (2019): Islamicate Secularities in Past and Present
• Volume 44.2 (2019): Governing by Numbers
• Volume 44.1 (2019): Markets, Organizations, and Law

Tahun 2018

• Volume 43.4 (2018): Challenged Elites - Elites as Challengers
• Volume 43.3 (2018): Economists, Politics, and Society
• Volume 43.2 (2018): Visualities - Sports, Bodies, and Visual Sources
• Volume 43.1 (2018): Agent-Based Modeling in Social Science, History, and Philosophy
• Supplement 31 (2018): Models and Modelling between Digital and Humanities
• Supplement 30 (2018): Historische Migrationsforschung (Historical Migration Studies) (Catatan: Hanya dalam Bahasa Jerman)

Tahun 2017 (Arsip teks lengkap)

• Volume 42.4 (2017): Changing Power Relations and the Drag Effects of Habitus
• Volume 42.3 (2017): Critique and Social Change: Historical, Cultural, and Institutional Perspectives
• Volume 42.2 (2017): The Impact of Religious Denomination on Mentality and Behavior / Spatial Dimensions of Governance in 20th Century Political Struggles
• Volume 42.1 (2017): Markets and Classifications. Categorizations and Valuations as Social Processes Structuring Markets
• Supplement 29 (2017): From History to Applied Computer Science in the Humanities

Tahun 2016 (Arsip teks lengkap)

• Volume 41.4 (2016): National Political Elites and the Crisis of European Integration
• Volume 41.3 (2016): Established-Outsider Relations/Knowledge Transfer as Intercultural Translation
• Volume 41.2 (2016): Conventions and Quantification
• Volume 41.1 (2016): Risk & Social History
• Supplement 28 (2016): Zeitgeschichte zwischen Politik, Biografie und Methodik (Contemporary History Between Politics, Biographies, and Methods) (Catatan: Hanya dalam Bahasa Jerman)

Tahun 2015 (Arsip teks lengkap)

• Volume 40.4 (2015): Animal Politics/Football History
• Volume 40.3 (2015): Methods of Innovation Research
• Volume 40.2 (2015): Climate and Beyond
• Volume 40.1 (2015): Law and Conventions
• Supplement 27 (2015): Politisierte Sozialstruktur (Politicized Social Structure) (Catatan: Hanya dalam Bahasa Jerman)

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