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Graphic History Reviews: Introductory Note, The American Historical Review, Volume 123, Issue 5, December 2018, Page 1596, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhy390
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In an ongoing effort to broaden the reviews section of the American Historical Review beyond the realm of the scholarly monograph, the journal’s editorial team has begun to solicit reviews of other kinds of material of potential interest to historians. In the April 2018 issue we rebooted the abandoned practice of reviewing films; in June we reviewed three volumes of documentary history, the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series; in October we looked at a cluster of museums and public history sites. In this issue, we turn our attention to a genre many scholars may not yet be familiar with: the “graphic history,” or history told in the form of a comic book. Many professional historians may balk at this, regarding such material as not “serious” scholarship, despite (or because of) its widespread popularity and potential classroom use. But, as guest editor Trevor Getz explains below, there are good reasons to pay attention to this genre, which offers new opportunities to scholars seeking to go beyond the monograph and the scholarly article as the central vehicles of communication of the richness of the past.