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.
Nuclear History
As we approach the eightieth anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Process invites proposals and submissions for an upcoming series on nuclear history. We are open to a wide variety of topics. This could include pieces that consider resource extraction and capitalism; the environmental impacts of nuclear power and weapons; the place of the United States in the global nuclear order; the histories and afterlives of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and nuclear narratives in U.S. political discourse and popular culture.
We welcome submissions engaged in a range of approaches and subfields, including the history of science, technology, and public health, Native American and Indigenous Studies, political economy and labor, and ecology and environmentalism. We encourage pieces that adopt global, transnational, or comparative perspectives and that connect the history of nuclear power with contemporary issues in the United States and beyond.
We accept submissions from anyone engaged in the practice of U.S. history, including researchers, teachers, graduate students, archivists, curators, public historians, digital scholars, and others. Submissions should be written for a public readership and should not exceed 1,500 words, not counting any footnotes. Please send proposals or submissions to blog@oah.org by August 15, 2025.
Sensory History
Process invites proposals and submissions for an upcoming series on sensory history. We are open to a variety of themes relating to sensory history as both a methodology and a field and its intersections with various subfields of U.S. history, including histories of law, age, gender, disability studies, sport, and the environment. Articles might be centered on just one sense or could take a multisensory approach.
We are interested in articles that employ sensory history as a methodology and framework for understanding historical behavior, as well as articles that take a more methodological or historiographical approach, considering the strengths and limitations of sensory history as a method and the evolving place of sensory history in the discipline. We encourage pieces that engage in global, transnational, or comparative perspectives and welcome pieces that explore the senses at any point in U.S. history.
We accept submissions from anyone engaged in the practice of U.S. history, including researchers, teachers, graduate students, archivists, curators, public historians, digital scholars, and others. Submissions should be written for a public readership and should not exceed 1500 words, not counting any footnotes. We will plan to publish pieces throughout spring 2025, but are open to submissions past that point. Proposals and drafts may be sent to blog@oah.org.
Histories of Aging and Elderly Lives
Process invites proposals and submissions for an upcoming series on the elderly in U.S. history. While there is a vast array of histories relating to youth culture, children, and young adults in the United States, there are fewer comparable studies on the history of elderly culture and their impact on American society.
We are open to accepting articles on wide range of themes relating to the study of the elderly in U.S. history, which could include, but are not limited to: the elderly as a political voting bloc or as representatives in U.S. politics, the culture of retirement communities or Sunbelt cities, the purchasing power of elderly Americans or their broader economic impact in American industries, histories of health and medicine in relation to the elderly, or historical memory and interpretations advocated by elderly Americans. We are also interested in articles that explore historical research methodologies on this subject or that explore this subject’s intersections with various subfields of U.S. history, including histories of law, age, gender, disability studies, global studies, sports, and the environment.
We accept submissions from anyone engaged in the practice of U.S. history, including researchers, teachers, graduate students, archivists, curators, public historians, digital scholars, and others. Submissions should be written for a public readership, include a historical argument, and should not exceed 1500 words, not counting any footnotes. We will look to publish pieces throughout spring 2025, but are open to submissions past that point. Send proposals and drafts to blog@oah.org.