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Historical Geography is an annual journal that publishes peer-reviewed scholarly articles, book reviews, conference reports, and commentaries. The journal encourages an interdisciplinary and international dialogue among scholars, professionals, and students interested in geographic perspectives on the past. Concerned with maintaining historical geography’s ongoing intellectual contribution to social scientific and humanities-based disciplines, Historical Geography is especially committed to presenting the work of emerging scholars.
Historical Geography is the official journal of the Historical Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. Members of the group receive subscriptions as a benefit of membership.
From 1971-1975 Historical Geography was published under the name Historical Geography Newsletter. From 1976-1990 Historical Geography, with its shortened name, continued to serve as both a scholarly journal and "a newsletter for historical geographers" particularly for the Historical Geography Specialty Group of the AAG beginning with their establishment in 1979. In 1990, beginning with Historical Geography's second volume that year, the newsletter content of the journal was removed and transferred into the publication of Past Place whose audience was solely the Historical Geography Specialty Group of the AAG. Historical Geography, however, continued on as both a North American journal with continued support from the Historical Geography Specialty Group of AAG and the Historical Geography Study Group of CAG (established in 2006) and increasingly has aimed toward international audiences and case studies.
Today, Historical Geography is published through the University of Nebraska Press as a free-to-publish open-access journal, except for the most recent issue with remains behind a paywall for one year, except for HGSG members.
Submit to Historical Geography
Submit to Historical Geography
Manuscripts should be no greater than 10,000 words in length (inclusive of notes, maps, charts, tables, and images), double-spaced, free of excessive jargon, and prepared according to the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition (University of Chicago Press, 2017). Submissions should be accompanied by an abstract of up to 150 words. Authors interested in submitting commentaries, conference reports, or book reviews should contact the editors in advance to discuss their ideas.
Manuscripts should be submitted as Microsoft Word (.docx) files, free of identifying names or references to the author(s). To ensure blind reviews, we recommend using the “Inspect Document” function to ensure authors' names do not appear in the document properties.
Please make sure major elements (title, author names, epigraphs, headings, block quotes, endnotes, etc.) stand out visually from one another. For example, a block quote shouldn’t be formatted with the same margins as the running text, or it will run the risk of being styled incorrectly. In addition, if you use multiple levels of section heads, they should be visually distinct from one another and consistent throughout the manuscript.
Avoid using tabs to indicate indents; instead use Word's ruler to properly indent your content.
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