Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Perspectives on History<\/em><\/p>\n ISSN<\/strong>: 1940-80481<\/sup><\/p>\n Website:<\/strong>\u00a0Perspectives on History<\/em> Home<\/a><\/p>\n Purpose, objective, or mission:<\/strong>\u00a0Perspectives on History<\/em>\u00a0is the newsmagazine of the American Historical Association (AHA); it serves as the, \u201c\u2026principal source for news and information about the discipline of history.\u201d2<\/sup><\/p>\n Publication Tagline: \u201cPerspectives<\/em> cultivates the community of historians and promotes our work.\u201d3<\/sup><\/p>\n \u201cWe strive to be a place for historians across the discipline\u2019s broad spectrum to share their ideas and enthusiasm.\u201d4<\/sup><\/p>\n Target audience:<\/strong> Members of the AHA; College and university professors, and K\u201312 teachers of history; historical administrators; editors; museum professionals; publishers; librarians; and students of history.5<\/sup><\/p>\n Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0American Historical Association.6<\/sup><\/p>\n Peer reviewed?<\/strong>\u00a0No.<\/p>\n Type:<\/strong>\u00a0Civilian. While some members of the AHA might also be information professionals (and many other members will have a strong understanding of the library profession), most members will not be intimately familiar with the LIS profession.<\/p>\n Medium:<\/strong>\u00a0Print. Online content is also published under\u00a0Perspectives Daily<\/em>.<\/p>\n Content: \u201c<\/strong>We offer articles and commentary on research and archives, teaching, digital projects, new books of note, history in the media, public history and museum exhibitions, and more.\u201d7<\/sup><\/p>\n Frequency of publication:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cOur print edition is published monthly and online during the academic year, with online-only articles in\u00a0Perspectives Daily\u00a0<\/em>updated regularly all year round. A print subscription is available only with\u00a0AHA membership<\/a>.\u201d8<\/sup><\/p>\n Location of submission guidelines: <\/strong>Article Guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n Types of contributions accepted:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cWe do consider full manuscripts, but we prefer to receive pitches to give us a better understanding of the topic and your viewpoint as an author. Potential writers should familiarize themselves with the sort of articles we publish and the sections in which they fit. If a story is immediately relevant to discussions about current events, please flag it as a possible contribution to\u00a0Perspectives Daily<\/em> if you envision it being published quickly.\u201d9<\/sup><\/p>\n Perspectives on History<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Perspectives Daily<\/em> welcome articles by historians from all kinds of institutions (including but not limited to colleges and universities, K\u201312 schools, museums, and archives), at all degree levels, and of all professional ranks. They also accept Letters to the editor, In Memoriam essays, and \u2018Everything Has a History\u2019 essays.10<\/sup><\/p>\n Submission and review process:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cArticles for\u00a0Perspectives on History\u00a0<\/em>should normally be about 1,500 words in length.\u00a0Perspectives Daily<\/em> articles are about 800\u20131,000 words, letters to the editor should be no more than 500 words, In Memoriam essays about 650 words, and Everything Has a History essays about 500 words.11<\/sup><\/p>\n \u201cWhile\u00a0Perspectives on History<\/em> does commission articles, it also accepts both completed submissions and proposals. Articles and letters are reviewed by the editorial board, and, in the case of article submissions, the board may make suggestions for revisions.\u201d12<\/sup><\/p>\n \u201cTo ensure that no errors are inadvertently introduced into the text in the copyediting process, the copyedited version of articles accepted for publication may be sent to authors for final approval (when major revisions are suggested). Since both\u00a0Perspectives on History<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Perspectives Daily\u00a0<\/em>run on a tight schedule, the editors typically will ask authors to respond within 24 to 48 hours.\u201d13<\/sup><\/p>\n Editorial tone:<\/strong>\u00a0The submission guidelines state a preference for a journalistic or conversational style. In general, the articles in\u00a0Perspectives on History<\/em>\u00a0are written with a semi-formal tone. Additionally, authors are asked to limit the number of citations in their articles.14<\/sup><\/p>\n Style guide used:<\/strong> \u201cWe encourage authors of articles to supply a working title for the essay, although the final determination of headlines, captions, pull quotes, and other forms of \u201cdisplay type\u201d are made by the editors. A brief autobiographical description (25-30 words) should be appended at the end of the article, indicating the author\u2019s institutional affiliation (if any), recent major publications, interests, and so on. Spelling\u2014especially of proper names used in drafts\u2014and all factual information (dates, place names, statistical data, and so on) provided should be verified by the author(s) before submission.\u201d15<\/sup><\/p>\n The Chicago Manual of Style\u00a0<\/em>(17th ed.). For copy-editing, the editors also use\u00a0Webster\u2019s Collegiate Dictionary\u00a0<\/em>(11th ed.) and the most recent edition of\u00a0Merriam<\/em>\u2013Webster\u2019s Collegiate Dictionary<\/em>. In general, the editors attempt to make an author\u2019s prose as effective as possible, both in the author\u2019s interest and that of our publications. The editors seek to remove redundancies and errors\u2014if any\u2014in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.\u00a0Perspectives on History\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Perspectives Daily<\/em> support the use of gender-neutral language in their articles, except when a change in pronoun would lead to a historical inaccuracy.\u201d16<\/sup><\/p>\n Letters to the editor should be guided by the AHA\u2019s\u00a0Statement on Standards of Professional Conduct<\/a>.17<\/sup><\/p>\n The organization and preservation of information are central to the tasks of both the historian and the LIS professional, and so it is not uncommon for their interests to intersect. Many developments in the Information field would be of interest to historians, especially if those developments were presented specifically for that audience. Such a presentation could generate a significant amount of name recognition if received favorably.<\/p>\n While\u00a0Perspectives on History<\/em>\u00a0is not, strictly speaking, a scholarly publication, it does possess enough prestige that an article printed in it would add weight to a tenure or promotion cause. However, this is not a venue for early-career publishing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Population circulation:<\/strong>\u00a0Nearly 15,000.18<\/sup><\/p>\n Audience location and language or cultural considerations:<\/strong>\u00a0AHA members are generally based in the United States, and the magazine is published in English.19<\/sup>\u00a0AHA members will be familiar with many of the same research terminologies that librarians use, but they will be completely unfamiliar with much of the jargon of information science. Similarly, historians have their own jargon, and an author writing for a history publication would do well to familiarize themselves with it.<\/p>\n Reader characteristics:<\/strong> \u201c\u2026 AHA brings together historians specializing in every period, geographic region, and topic of history. Through its scholarly and professional activities, the AHA represents the broad diversity of the historical enterprise today. More than 60 percent of the Association\u2019s members are professors of history, with the remaining 40 percent consisting of students, teachers, administrators, and publishers in the field.\u201d20<\/sup><\/p>\n Knowledge of LIS subject matter:<\/strong>\u00a0As historians, the members of the AHA will generally have a strong understanding of research and research tools. However, they will not be familiar with aspects of LIS subjects outside those that apply to their discipline.<\/p>\n The historians who comprise the membership of the AHA are, like most faculty, very busy people. It is essential, when writing for them, to show them \u2014 in their own terms \u2014 how you can save time or make their research easier.\u00a0Perspectives on History<\/em>\u00a0is primarily a newsletter, even though it does publish some research-based articles. A librarian writing for this publication would do well to simplify the presentation of their research, and focus primarily on the practical application of their results.<\/p>\n Last updated:\u00a0<\/strong>October 19, 2020 Publication analysis About the publication Title:\u00a0Perspectives on History ISSN: 1940-80481 Website:\u00a0Perspectives on History Home Purpose, objective, or mission:\u00a0Perspectives on History\u00a0is the newsmagazine of the American Historical Association (AHA); it serves as the, \u201c\u2026principal source for news and information about the discipline of history.\u201d2 Publication Tagline: \u201cPerspectives cultivates the community of historians and promotes our work.\u201d3 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":772,"featured_media":0,"parent":2017,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2657","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3347,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2657\/revisions\/3347"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About the publication\u2019s submission guidelines<\/h3>\n
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