Advertising with the AHA

Advertising in the publications of the American Historical Association provides you with the best opportunity for reaching members of the historical profession in the United States. As the oldest (founded in 1884) and largest (more than 18,000 individual and institutional members) professional historical organization in the United States, only the American Historical Association brings together historians specializing in every period, geographic region, and topic of history. Through its scholarly and professional activities, the American Historical Association represents the broad diversity of historical enterprise today. More than 60 percent of the Association's members are professors of history, with the remaining 40 percent consisting of students, teachers, administrators, and publishers in the field.

To meet and address the varied interests of its members, the AHA publishes the American Historical Review, the major journal of record for the historical profession in the United States; Perspectives on History , the major national news monthly of the profession, providing articles and commentary on important people, events, and trends in the profession; and the AHA Annual Meeting Program, the handbook for the largest annual gathering of historians in the United States. These subscription publications, along with their pass-along audience, reach more historians than any other group of publications in America.

All Advertising in the Publications of the American Historical Association is subject to the “Policy on Exhibits, Advertisements, Mailing List Rentals, and Sales.”

See below for information on advertising in:

Information on renting the AHA's mailing list is also available.

If you have questions about mailing lists, please contact Robert Townsend.

Circulation: Over 18,000.

Readership: College professors, historical administrators, editors, museum professionals, publishers, librarians, and students of history.

Online Version: The American Historical Review is now available electronically through the History Cooperative.

Issuance: Five times per year: October, December, February, April, and June.

Mechanical Requirements:

  • Ad size: 6 x 9 (full-page only).
  • Trim size: 7 1/4 x 10 1/4.
  • Halftones: 120 linescreen.
  • Copy submission: Camera-ready, or ads can be sent electronically as a PDF (PLEASE NOTE: We require that copy submitted as a PDF has all fonts and images embedded, and all images—logos, book covers, etc.—at least 300 d.p.i.). to Cheryl Jones at the University of Chicago Press .
  • Printing: Offset; perfect bound; white and off-white quality, nonacid paperstock.

Contact: Cheryl Jones for more information.

Circulation: Approximately 17,500.

Readership: College professors, historical administrators, editors, museum professionals, publishers, librarians, and students of history.

Issuance: Nine times per year; monthly, September–May.

Classified Ads: $1.25 per word (for position ads only). Discounted rate of $1.00 per word for ads submitted via the AHA web site at http://www.historians.org/perspectives/eib/eib.cfm. Minimum charge is $100.00. Repeat ads are billed at half the cost of the original ad.

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Ad Sizes:

Cover 4
(4-color)

(7 1/4 x 9 5/8)

Covers 2 & 3
(4 color)

(7 1/4 x 9 5/8)
Full page
(2-color or black & white)

(7 1/4 x 9 5/8)
Half page

(4 5/8 x 7 1/4 —vertical)
( 7 1/4 x 4 5/8—horizontal)
One-third page

(2 3/8 x 9 5/8 —vertical)
(4 5/8 x 4 5/8 —square)

One-sixth page

(2 3/8 x 4 5/8 —vertical)
(4 5/8 x 2 3/8 —horizontal)

Deadlines and Pricing: Pricing and advertising copy deadlines will be available in June 2008.

Circulation: Over 18,000.

Readership: Includes all members, as well as nonmembers attending the annual meeting.

Issuance: Published in conjunction with the Association's annual meeting, held yearly at the beginning of January, the Program is mailed to the membership in mid-October and also provided to participants at the annual meeting. The 123rd Annual Meeting in 2009 will be held January 2 –5 in New York City.

    2009 Meeting Program Deadlines:

    July 18, 2008: insertion orders

    August 1, 2008: ad copy

Size

Rates

1 page
(2-color: black & PMS 5255* )
*PLEASE NOTE: the PMS color was incorrectly listed as 5225 on the previously sent Exhibitor forms; the correct PMS color is 5255.

4 color, 2-page spread


Cover 2


Cover 3


Cover 4

$1,270




$3,310


$1,765


$1,765


$1,985

Commissions: Agency commission 15 percent. Net 30 days. No cash discount. Commission does not apply to additional art charges or alterations.

Mechanical Requirements (PLEASE NOTE THE SIZE FOR THE 2009 PROGRAM) :

  • Ad size: 7 1/4" x 9 5/8" (full page); 7 1/4" x 4 5/8" (half page).
  • Trim size: 8 3/8" x 10 7/8". Halftones: 120 linescreen.
  • Copy submission: Camera-ready (no film, no bleeds); Electronically as a PDF (e-mail Kelly Elmore —PLEASE NOTE: We require that copy submitted as a PDF has all fonts and
    images embedded, and all images—logos, book covers, etc.—at least 300 d.p.i.    )
  • Printing: Offset; perfect bound; white and off-white quality, nonacid paperstock.

Contact Kelly Elmore for any more information about the Annual Meeting Program.

Last Updated: May 6, 2008 12:32 PM