RETHINKING HISTORY - A NEW JOURNAL

CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS

A new publication (first issue July 1997), RETHINKING HISTORY: THE JOURNAL OF THEORY AND PRACTICE, is dedicated to examining how historians today are challenging accepted ways of 'doing' history. Open to academics from different fields and specialties, the journal will be a forum for debates covering a wide variety of methods and approaches to the study of the past. RETHINKING HISTORY is also interested in new ways of telling the past; it is the first scholarly journal open to innovative and experimental forms of historical writing.

The first issue of the journal features articles on Why Bother With the Past? by Keith Jenkins; Foucault vs. Lawrence Stone by William Pencak; The Politics of Mourning in Postwar France by M. Brady Bower; and essays on Stanley Elkins by Peter Ling, and Authority and Reality in the Representation of the Past by Alun Munslow. The second issue features articles on Social Theory and Historiography in America by Dorothy Ross; Reader-Relativism in History by Gunnar Karlsson; an essay on Richard Hofstadter and the Anti-Intellectual Tradition by Barbara L. Tischler; and an experimental piece of historical writing, Narrating a Southern Tragedy, by Bryant Simon.

To become an active forum for scholarly debate, RETHINKING HISTORY is issuing a call for both PAPERS and SUBSCRIBERS. Topics can include anything that fits under the rubric of historical theory and practice. The journal will appear three times a year, and the editors plan to have one themed issue for each volume. Right now we are interested in papers that will fit into issues on the following themes: History and Fiction, Innovative (or Experimental) Historical Writing, History and Film. But scholars with other topics in mind should not hesitate to contact us.

RETHINKING HISTORY will publish pieces of two lengths -- 5,000 to 7,000 word articles and 10,000 word essays --all unrestricted by period, place, or speciality. The journal also will include several regular features:

• An Invitation to Historians' to explain how and why they write history as they do.
• Concepts' will explore key concepts of historical analysis.
• Re-Appraisals - will assess the contribution of individual historians, past and present
• Re-Reviews will reassess "classic" history texts.
• Notes and Comments section will provide a platform for scholarly debate
• Book Reviews and Review Articles will survey the recent literature

Inquiries about or suggestions for papers should be sent to one of the following editors:

For scholars in the Western hemisphere:

For scholars in the rest of the world:

For book reviews:

SUBSCRIPTIONS - European Union

SUBSCRIPTIONS - US

RETHINKING HISTORY EDITORIAL BOARD:

Linda J. Borish, Peter Burke, Jack R. Censer, Patrick Finney, Keith Jenkins, Harvey J. Kaye, Richard H. King, T.J. Jackson Lears, M.C. Lemon, Alan Megill, David D. Roberts, Dorothy Ross, Michael Roth, Ann-Louise Shapiro, Gabrielle Spiegel, Barbara L. Tischler, Garthine Walker, and Hayden White.

RETHINKING HISTORY ADVISORY BOARD:

Owen R. Ashton, Tony Badger, Crispin Bates, Robert F. Berkhofer, jr, Casey N. Blake, Christine Bolt, Pierre Bourdieu, David R. Carr, David Peters Corbett, Robert C. Darnton, Leonore Davidoff, Hasia Diner, John Dunne, Dennis Dworkin, Marc Ferro, Jonathan Gorman, Marybeth Hamilton, Joan Hoff, Katherine Jellison, Christopher A. Kent, Susan Kingsley Kent, James T. Kloppenberg, Dominick LaCapra, James Livingston, C. Behan McCullagh, A.J. Millard, Judie A. Newman, Griselda Pollock, Roy S. Porter, June Purvis, Mary C. Sies, Beverley Southgate, Susan C. Townsend, Marian Yeates, Joanna S. Zangrando.

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