Earlham Historical Journal
The Earlham Historical Journal (EHJ), founded in 2009, publishes outstanding works of historical inquiry by Earlham students.
As a student-run journal, our mission seeks to create and elevate historical discourse among peers at Earlham College. Furthermore, as one of the few undergraduate research journals, the EHJ offers a unique opportunity for students to experience the publication process both as writers and editors.
Submission guidelines
All submissions will be assessed anonymously.
- While we accept interdisciplinary papers, submissions should contain significant historical content.
- We highly recommend that the article contains original research.
- We are also interested in reviews of academic books.
- Papers should be reasonably polished prior to submission.
- No more than two pieces of writing per person per publishing cycle (semester).
- The paper should be formatted in Chicago Manual of Style, or will need to be reformatted to Chicago Manual of Style prior to publication.
- Authors will need to sign waivers allowing the Journal publishing rights to their piece.
If you’re submitting a research paper written in a foreign language, a separate form of assessment is required. Please complete the Foreign Language Submission Form as well as the Foreign Language Review Form, and turn them into the current co-conveners of the Earlham Historical Journal.
Editorial process
After your paper is accepted, members of the editorial board will be assigned to edit your paper and provide feedback. They will meet with you one or more times to discuss these edits and help you improve your paper. An edited version of your paper must be sent to the editorial board by the due date (typically 3-4 weeks after edits are provided).
While you do not need to make all suggested edits and are certainly free to disagree with your editors about what changes should be made, the editorial board reserves the right to reject papers if major flaws remain in the final version of your paper.
Join our editorial board
Are you a critical editor? Do you have an interest in history? Consider applying to join our editorial board! The Earlham Historical Journal is now accepting applications for new members. The journal offers valuable insight towards the publication process, engages the student body with excellent works produced by fellow Earlhamites, and provides a unique opportunity to get involved in an undergraduate printing press.
If you would like to apply, keep an eye out for email communication and/or posters around campus for information.
Archives
- Letter of Introduction – By Hannah Lewis and Victoria Maras
- The Qing and the First Opium War – By Noah Scherf
- “Every North American Shall Be Put to Death,” and Other Visions for a More Just Society: Racial Geographies of the 1915 Plan of San Diego
By Asa Kramer-Dickie - Subverting Ownership: Graffiti as a Reclamation of Collective Property
By Daniel Oni - A Leap in the Dark: Marginalized Workers, Title VII, and the Long Wait for Federal Protections
By Opal Harbour
- Letter of Introduction
By Justin Ko and Tyler Tolman - Gendering (Bi)Sexuality
By Laura Honsig - Being and Becoming Human: Weheliye’s Radical Emancipation Theory and the Flesh and Body of Black Studies
By James Johnson - Orientalism Versus Organization: The Professionalization of American and Chinese Women Artists in China, 1900-1949
By Karen Breece - Witches and New Christians in the Viceroyalty of Peru
By Lydia Lichtiger - Crime and Security in Shanghai’s French Concession, 1919-1937
By Olivia Hunter
- Letter of Introduction
By Jacob Noble and Sonia Norton - Hegemonic Urban Planning: Contested Space and Interests in Mid-Century East LA
By Corinne Lunden - The Toyota Accelerator Crisis: A Shattered Asian Miracle
By Tyler Tolman - Pan-African ideals and the Organization of African Unity’s intervention in the 1967-1970 Nigerian Civil War
By Aderonke Abodunrin - “Company-Owned Americans”: Militant Unionism and the Merging of Corporation and State in Southern West Virginia 1900-1925
By Brandon DiGregorio
- Conviction and Circumstance: The Liberty Party in Indiana
by Soren Rasmussen - Science, Technology, and Japanese Nationalism
by Joey Slucher - The Marian Court in Context: Mary Tudor’s Court as Part of the Tudor Legacy
by Emma Vroom - Ghosts of Violence
by Laura Honsig
- Country Music and the Construction of the Southern White Working Class
by Sadie Rehm - Commodification of the Black Body, Sexual Objectification and Social Hierarchies during Slavery
by Iman Cooper - Resistance to Anti-Slavery Friends
by Sarah Medlin - The Implementation of the Second Vatican Council:
The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy and Sacrosanctum Concilium
by Aaron Falsetto - Collective Action after the Decline of U.S. Trade Unionism:
The Case of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
by Alex Cook
- To Queer or not to Queer: Hadewijch’s poetry as a case study for a queer read of history
by Taylor Jeromos - Anti-Semitism in German ‘Volk’ Culture: Propaganda through the Pen and Screen
by Hank Levin - Desynchronized Irish Republican Political Strategy: The Dichotomy of the Armalite and the Ballot Box
by Evan Malgrem