Historia Crítica (Critical History) is a journal of a periodic nature that takes into account international criteria of quality, positioning, periodicity and online availability. Its aim is to publish unpublished articles in the field of History, which contribute to the study of Social and Human Sciences, for a better understanding of the social, political, economic, geographical and cultural environments of the past and present. In this sense, it seeks to strengthen research to build dialogues between the national and international academic community.

The Journal is a quarterly publication (January-March, April-June, July-September and October-December), which circulates at the beginning of each period indicated, created in 1989 and financed by the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia). The Journal publishes articles in Spanish, English and Portuguese.

The sections of the Magazine are the following:
Letter to the readers or Presentation of the Dossier informs about the content of the number and the relevance of the topics dealt with.
Dossier gathers articles that revolve around a specific theme, previously convened by the Editorial Team.
Open topic includes articles on varied historiographical interests, different from those that the dossier gathers.
The Magazine changes the presentation structure of its sections in the numbers that are exclusive to Open Topic, where the Dossier section does not appear. Critical History in some editions includes the Translation section that contains articles published in languages other than Spanish, English and Portuguese.

Starting on January 2009 Historia Crítica, originally a bi-annual publication, publishes three issues per year and it is available in LatAm-Studies Full-Text.