About the History in Focus Podcast
History in Focus is a podcast by the American Historical Review. Go behind the scenes with the world's leading history journal as we explore the who, what, how, and why of doing history in the 21st century.
Each month, the latest AHR issue will be the jumping off point for a deeper dive into historical content and practice, highlighting the work of historians and other scholars who work in and outside of the academy. You'll still hear interviews but also more immersive storytelling and off-the-cuff banter as we seek to peel back the curtain on the AHR and the work of history more broadly.
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Thematic
Geographic
AHA Topics
Epilogue
Environmental Crisis and Recovery
Collaborative History + Revisiting Marion Thompson Wright
Teaching Historiography + Chilling Affects
Indigenous Art and History + Conversations with the Dead
Picnicking at the End of Empire + Around AHA 2024
Enslaved Women’s Bodies in Fifteenth-Century Spain + Seeing Black America in Iran
History and Video Games + Digital Submission Guidelines
American Historical Review
The American Historical Review is the flagship journal of the AHA and the journal of record for the historical discipline in the United States, bringing together scholarship from every major field of historical study.
Our Team
Podcast Production Team
History in Focus is produced and hosted by Daniel Story. The podcast is a production of the American Historical Review in partnership with the AHA and the University Library at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Other members of the podcast team include:
Mark Philip Bradley, editor of the AHR
Conor Howard, co-producer
Syrus Jin, Assistant to the Editor, AHR
Phoebe Rettberg, audio engineering assistant
Alexandra Levy, communications director at the AHA
AHR Interview
AHR Interview ran from 2018-2021. The podcast presented brief discussions with historians whose work has appeared in the American Historical Review. Sometimes the interview accompanied an article or a featured review in a current or recent issue; other times it featured a scholar who had recently been in the news, but whose work appeared in the journal in the past. These accessible and user-friendly podcasts highlight historical scholarship of wide interest and enormous import for issues of the day.