About AHR History Lab Submissions

The AHR History Lab invites collaborative teams to develop innovative projects that create new historical knowledge and speak to expansive audiences. History Lab projects involve practitioners of history from across the discipline, including academics, teachers, digital humanists, archivists, community activists, museum curators, documentarians and filmmakers, writers, poets, musicians, composers, and visual artists. The results of their work appear in both the print and digital editions of the AHR. 

For multi-authored pieces or forums, one “corresponding author” must be designated. This person is responsible for submitting the proposal and, should the project move forward, will serve as the point person for all communication about the editorial and production processes.

Proposals for new Lab projects should provide:

  • Project title
  • A project description (500-750 words)
  • A short paragraph from each contribution (300-500 words)

 

For more on the History Lab, please visit the History Lab Homepage

What form can a History Lab project take?

Single or co-authored pieces: these contributions can be 5,000-10,000 words (excluding notes)

Forums: a collection of entries focused on a similar topic

  • These can include up to 10 contributions. Each entry should be no more than 3,000 words (excluding notes).
  • The corresponding should write a short introduction and can also contribute a piece to the forum.
  • The whole forum, as well as each author’s contribution, will need titles and keywords. The introduction will not get a title
  • Forums can also include commentary with 1 or 2 scholars providing an extended commentary at the end (1,000-2,000 words

For all History Lab content, please keep footnotes to a minimum.

History Lab Proposal Submissions

If you have a proposal for the AHR History Lab project, please fill out this form. We consider proposals on a rolling basis.

Access Form

History Unclassified

The History Unclassified section, located inside the History Lab, features essays that highlight archival stories, off-beat discoveries, unexpected connections with other fields, as well as historians’ research experiences and their connection to the authors’ lives and stories.

History Unclassified contributions are 2,000 to 5,000 words. Submissions should be emailed to brownkl@mit.edu and ejcallaci@wisc.edu with the subject line “History Unclassified.”

#AHRSyllabus

#AHRSyllabus is a collaborative project designed to help teachers and students look "under the hood" at how historians in the early 21st century do the work of history. For information on how to submit to the #AHRSyllabus project, visit our submissions page.