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The Public Historian, a quarterly journal sponsored by the National Council on Public History and published by University of California Press, is the voice of the public history movement. It emphasizes original research, fresh conceptualization, and new viewpoints. The journal's contents reflect the considerable diversity of approaches to the definition and practice of public history.

The Public Historian provides practicing professionals and others the opportunity to report the results of research and case studies and to address the broad substantive and theoretical issues inherent in the practice of public history. The journal aims to provide a comprehensive look at the field, publishing articles from the following sectors, among others:

• Public Policy and Policy Analysis
• Museum and Historic Site Administration
• Corporate Biography and Information
• Cultural Resources Management Services
• Litigation Support and Expert Witnessing
• Federal, State, and Local History
• Planning
• Oral History
• Historical Editing, Publishing, and Media
• Archival, Manuscript, and Records Management
• Historic Preservation

In its review section, The Public Historian assesses current publications by and of interest to public historians, including government publications, cultural resources management reports, and corporate histories, as well as selected scholarly press publications. The journal also reviews historical films, media productions, videos, exhibits, and archival and manuscript collections.

The editors welcome the submission of manuscripts by all those interested in the theory, teaching, and practice of public history, both in the United States and abroad. We are looking for manuscripts which make a significant contribution to the definition, understanding, and/or professional and intellectual progress of the field of public history. We conceive of the term public history broadly, as involving historical research, analysis, and presentation, with some degree of explicit application to the needs of contemporary life. Revisions will be suggested, if necessary, before the editors will accept an article for publication.

In general, only manuscripts not previously published will be accepted. Authors must agree not to publish elsewhere, without explicit written consent, an article accepted for publication in The Public Historian.

Letters to the editor are welcome. Letters should not exceed 400 words.

Please submit manuscripts and letters to the editors at the address below.

Manuscript Policy

• Manuscripts should be prepared according the Chicago Manual of Style guidelines and submitted as a double-spaced Word file (WordPerfect is not acceptable). Footnotes should appear at the end of the manuscript and must be double-spaced. The author's name and address should appear only on a separate title page. Electronic files may be submitted on a CD or as e-mail attachments. In addition to the electronic file, one printed copy is required.
• Research articles should be no more than thirty pages, essays no more than twenty-five pages, and reports from the field fifteen pages.
• Appropriate subtitles of no more than five words in length should be used to divide manuscripts.
• An abstract of approximately 100 words must accompany each manuscript.
• Five key words or phrases must be appended to the abstract. A keyword is defined as a subject term, critical expression, key phrase, abbreviation, or indexing word that is associated with the whole document and can be used for identification, searching, and indexing purposes.
• Accompanying each submitted manuscript should be a brief description of the author's background and work in the field of public history for use in a contributor's note.
• Illustrations, photographic or drawn, are encouraged, and will be included whenever possible. Figures, including graphs and charts are normally to be provided as professional quality, camera-ready copy, although illustrations created in Adobe PhotoShop© or Illustrator©, or Macromedia Freehand© may be accepted. Such files must be complete and accompanied by high-quality printouts. Camera-ready graphs and charts should be drawn in permanent black ink. Figures submitted in either format should be proportional to a journal page size of six inches by nine inches. Artwork and lettering should be prepared in a form suitable for reduction by the printer. Do not fold or write on the back of the finished product. Indicate in the text the correct location of the figure and furnish figure titles on the same page where the figure appears.

Manuscripts, letters to the editor, and all other matter of an editorial nature should be addressed to
The Public Historian
Department of History
University of California
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9410
Tel: 805/893-3667
Fax: 805/893-7522
Email: lreed@history.ucsb.edu