About the AHR History Lab
Intended to open up the American Historical Review‘s pages and the discipline to the diverse work of practicing historians today, the History Lab is driven by a single question: How can the AHR help reimagine the practice of history in the 21st century? For information on how to submit to the History Lab, visit our submissions page.
The History Lab contains two subsections:
- The History Unclassified section, located within the History Lab, features essays that are creative, unconventional, genre-bending modes of historical writing.
- #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.
In The Latest Issue
Inside the History Lab
The Vietnam War Fifty Years On
by Jana K. Lipman, S.R. Joey Long, Sean Fear, Wen-Qing Ngoei, Jessica Chapman, David Biggs, Edward Miller, Robert K. Brigham, Phi-Vân Nguyễn, Thy Phu, and Syrus Solo Jin
How to Make Peace with History While Making History with Peace
by Charles F. Howlett, Susanne Schregel, Christian Philip Peterson, Michael Goode, John Smolenski, Toshihiro Higuchi, David Hosterrter, Catherine Sameh, Margaret Power, Van Gosse, Larry Wittner, David Cortright, Emily Rubino, and Shelly Rose
Graphic Narratives and History in the Americas
by Oleg Benesch, Shaul Mitelpunkt, and Charlotta Salmi
History in Focus
Introducing AfriWetu: An Interview with Mona Nyambura Muchemi by Mona Nyambura Muchemi and Daniel Story
#AHR Syllabus
Teaching the History of the Vietnam Wars: A Geographic History of the Vietnam Wars by Christian C. Lentz, Elena Samkin, Vincent Pham, Duyen Tong, Chris Bunin, and Andy Mink
History Unclassified
Archiving Loss, Learning, and Time in the Field by Lily Pearl Balloffet
Strategies for Survival: The Magisterial Feminae Exhibition at Brooklyn College as Celebration, Polemic, and Resistance by Lauren Mancia
For more #AHRSyllabus modules and History Unclassified essays, visit the #AHRSyllabus page and History Unclassified page.
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.
History in Focus Podcast
Listen to recent episodes with authors of AHR History Lab pieces.