Call for Submissions
Process—the blog of the Organization of American Historians, The Journal of American History, and The American Historian—invites proposals and submissions from all periods and fields in American history.We welcome essays that historicize the present as well as those that explore connections to our current moment. Process features posts from all time periods of American history and a variety of fields of history. We welcome submissions from anyone engaged in the practice of U.S. history, including researchers, teachers, graduate students, archivists, curators, public historians, digital scholars, and others. Materials may be sent to blog@oah.org.
Histories of Disability
Thirty years ago year this summer, the Americans with Disabilities Act became law. To observe this anniversary, Process: a blog for American history invites submissions about all aspects of the history of disability in the United States. We urge authors to think broadly about disability and about how both lived experiences and definitions of disability have changed over time. We hope to receive essays that explore the intersections of disability and ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, and class—as well as materials that investigate the nature and operation of ableism—throughout U.S. history. We particularly encourage pieces that examine the social, political, and legislative histories of the ADA, both before its enactment and after. We also seek historical analysis of disability and pandemics or other public health crises pertinent to this COVID moment. We welcome contributions from anyone engaged in the practice of U.S. history, including researchers, teachers, graduate students, archivists, curators, public historians, digital scholars, activists, and others. Submissions should be written for a public readership and should generally not exceed 1500 words. Proposals and drafts may be emailed to blog@oah.org. Process is a blog of the Journal of American History and the Organization of American Historians.
Sex, Suffrage, Solidarities: Centennial Reappraisals
The year 2020 marks the centennial anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment. What are our obligations to this moment? What are the crucial questions and unresolved problems in the histories and historiographies of suffrage in the United States? Process, in conjunction with the Journal of American History, will observe the centennial with a sustained, multidimensional appraisal. From late 2019 through 2020, we intend to publish a variety of scholarly analyses. Our ambition is to foster creative thinking about the amendment, its discursive and material frameworks, and its complex, often-unanticipated legacies. Our theme for the project—Sex, Suffrage, Solidarities—is intended to provoke new questions about the amendment and the political, economic, and cultural transformations of which it has been a part.
We invite original papers on all topics pertaining to women’s suffrage. We seek posts that examine the work of activists, both before ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment and after. We welcome submissions that investigate the complicated linkages among suffrage, citizenship, identities, and differences. We encourage global, transnational, and/or comparative perspectives, particularly if they compel us to reperiodize or otherwise reassess conventional ways of thinking about campaigns for women’s rights or the project of adult citizenship more broadly. We welcome research articles but will also receive proposals for other genres or formats of scholarly prose.
Queer history
Process: a blog for American history invites proposals and submissions for an upcoming series on queer history in the United States. We are open to a wide variety of themes, including but not limited to queer culture; material culture and aesthetics; literature, art, and film; queer history in the archives; queer social demonstrations; and queer solidarities. Materials may be sent to blog@oah.org.