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ahr-historiography-positioning
Use when positioning an American Historical Review (AHR) manuscript within the historiography so it reads as an intervention, not a report. AHR readers are historians across fields who expect you to engage the relevant scholarship and say precisely what you change. Stakes the contribution against prior work; it does not write the literature survey.
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# Historiography Positioning (ahr-historiography-positioning)
For the AHR, the **historiographical intervention is the contribution**. An article is not "here is
what I found in the archive" — it is "historians have understood X this way; the evidence shows it is
better understood this other way." Positioning is therefore not throat-clearing; it is the spine of the
article.
## When to trigger
- Drafting or revising the introduction and the "what this changes" passage
- A reader said you "don't engage the literature" or "missed the obvious work"
- Your archival findings are strong but you cannot say what they revise
- Distinguishing your argument from the closest prior interpretations
