Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: Since 2006, the AHR has published ten “Conversations” on a wide range of topics. By now, we have a standard format: the Editor convenes a group of scholars with an interest in the topic who, via e-mail over the course of several months, conduct a conversation that is then lightly edited and footnoted, finally appearing in the December issue. The goal has been to provide readers with a wide-ranging and accessible consideration of a topic at a high level of expertise, in which participants are recruited across several fields. When participants are able to respond to one another, a unique dialogue emerges, one that exemplifies the interplay of ideas that so much scholarship depends upon behind the scenes. The procedure also throws open a window onto the process by which scholars turn evidence into conceptualization; these are not polished pieces, but thought-in-action. It is the sort of publishing project that this journal is uniquely positioned to undertake.
Source: The American Historical Review
DOI: 10.1093/ahr/rhy389
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2903558832