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 #AHRSyllabus 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.

An AHR Playlist: Soundscapes of the Vietnam War

The March issue includes the AHR’s first playlist as part of the forum “The Vietnam War Fifty Years On,” which appears in the History Lab. Jason Gibbs, a leading expert on late 20th Vietnamese popular music, has created a playlist of 12 songs that introduce listeners to Vietnamese soundscapes of the wartime era.

History in Focus

Season 3

Episode 7

Archiving Loss, Learning, and Time in the Field
Historian Lily Pearl Balloffet explores the real, live human relationships we form in the process of doing historical work and...

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...

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.

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