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the-american-historical-review

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Use when targeting The American Historical Review (AHR) or deciding whether a history manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the broad-significance argument bar, primary-source and historiographical expectations, Chicago house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

When to use

• fit/framing check for AHR
• re-framing specialist studies for discipline-wide significance
• choosing between AHR and specialist history journals
• AHR argument-significance bar
• desk-reject heuristics
• historiographical intervention assessment
• Chicago house style and double-blind norms
• official-submission re-check

When not to use

• replacing the journal's current submission guidelines
• narrowly specialist studies with no broader stake
• adding a case to a settled debate without reframing
• thin or uncritical use of primary sources
• pieces pitched to one area community better served by specialist journals

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