Current Issue
September 2026
Vol 131 | Issue 3
The September 2026 issue of the American Historical Review ranges widely across the archives, from Africa to Indonesia and the environment to the family. This issue includes articles on 20th-century photographic practices, the material archive from the coronation of King Hufon, the politics of motherhood in Indonesia and China, and Somali orthography. The History Lab features a forum on environmental history, two new History Unclassified essays, and the latest modules of the #AHRSyllabus project Authoritarianism 101.
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Recently Published
A Revolution of Letters: Text, Sight and Spectacle in Socialist Somalia
By Safia Aidid
An Absent Mother between Two States: Third World Internationalism and the Politics of Motherhood in Indonesia and China
By Taomo Zhou
Camera Time: Personal Photography and Modern Selfhood in Colonial Egypt and Beyond
By Lucie Ryzova
The Python God and the Empty Chair: Crafting Royal Power in the Early Modern Bight of Benin and Europe
By Catherine Molineaux
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