A scholarly monograph:

• Is a one-volume work
• Gives in-depth treatment to a specialized subject
• Is written by a scholar in the field
• Is written mainly for an academic audience

How to identify a monograph written by a historian:

• See where it is shelved in the Library of Congress system
  • Look for call letters that start with "D," "E," or "F." 
• Look carefully at the "item details" tab in the catalog record.

Examples of scholarly monographs written by historians:

By consulting book reviews of the scholarly works you are reading, you can gain a better understanding of the place of a particular work within the field.  Here are a few tips for locating book reviews:

• Run a title search in Primo. Often the reviews of a book will turn up in the same search.

• Search America: History and Life for reviews.

• JSTOR: Run a title search and limit the results to "review."

• H-Net Reviews: an online scholarly review resource