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Abosede George, Clive Glaser, Margaret D. Jacobs, Chitra Joshi, Emily Marker, Alexandra Walsham, Wang Zheng, Bernd Weisbrod, AHR Conversation: Each Generation Writes Its Own History of Generations, The American Historical Review, Volume 123, Issue 5, December 2018, Pages 1505–1546, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhy389
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Since 2006, the AHR has published ten “Conversations” on a wide range of topics. By now, we have a standard format: the Editor convenes a group of scholars with an interest in the topic who, via e-mail over the course of several months, conduct a conversation that is then lightly edited and footnoted, finally appearing in the December issue. The goal has been to provide readers with a wide-ranging and accessible consideration of a topic at a high level of expertise, in which participants are recruited across several fields. When participants are able to respond to one another, a unique dialogue emerges, one that exemplifies the interplay of ideas that so much scholarship depends upon behind the scenes. The procedure also throws open a window onto the process by which scholars turn evidence into conceptualization; these are not polished pieces, but thought-in-action. It is the sort of publishing project that this journal is uniquely positioned to undertake.
