The Journal of Record for the Historical Discipline

The AHR History Lab is a new, experimental space in the middle of the journal featuring collective projects that seek to reimagine how we approach historical practice in terms of content, form, and method.

Find information on article and digital media submissions and proposals for the AHR History Lab and #AHRSyllabus project.

The Latest in the AHR

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#AHRSyllabus

The #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. Each contribution to the syllabus features a practical hands-on teaching module that foregrounds innovative uses of historical method in the classroom.

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Reviews

The American Historical Review publishes approximately 650 reviews annually, aiming to represent all fields of historical scholarship. Learn more about our reviews process, read our FAQ, and submit your information for our reviewer database.

Advance Articles: Forum on Scholarship and Peace Activism

The March 2025 issue of the AHR features a Forum on Scholarship and Peace Activism, providing peace scholars and practitioners an opportunity to discuss the complex relationship among peace, history, and activism. The forum has been made available as advanced access; the articles can be accessed on the Oxford University Press website.

History in Focus

Season 3

Episode 6

AHA 2025 and History Teachers
In this episode, we revisit AHA 2025 with a focus on history teachers. Daniel sits with Katharina Matro and Megan...

Season 3

Episode 5

Jo Guldi on Text Mining, AI, and Digital History
Historian and quantitative methods expert Jo Guldi discusses text mining, AI, and the wider landscape of digital history in this...

Season 3

Bonus

“Historians On”: AI in Teaching and Research
At the 2024 AHA annual meeting in San Francisco, historian David Trowbridge sat down with attendees to discuss topics of...

Past AHR Issues

Access past issues of the AHR, the journal of record for the historical discipline since 1895. The AHR publishes field transforming articles and contributions that reimagine historical practice and teaching. In its second century of continuous publication, the AHR strives to be the leading forum for new historical research, while meeting the challenges of an ever-evolving digital age and an ever-expanding global community of scholars.

The AHR occasionally publishes special issues. More information about upcoming special issues coming soon.

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.

Resources

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Perspectives on History

The newsmagazine of the American Historical Association.

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Calls for Opportunities Calendar

Find upcoming calls for papers, conference proposals, and other activities.

Message To Our Members

AHA Members: To access the full text of articles, start at www.historians.org/myaha.

  1. Login with your email address and password.
  2. On the MY AHA page, scroll down in the white part of the page until you see the section AHA Publications on the left side.
  3. Click the link under that for American Historical Review at Oxford University Press.
  4. Next, click Continue to American Historical Review.
  5. On the Oxford site at https://academic.oup.com, you'll see a circle at the top right.
  6. Click on that and see Signed in as Institutional Account AHA Member Access.
  7. As long as you see those words you're logged in and can access all versions of the AHR articles.