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Use when targeting History and Theory or deciding whether a philosophy-of-history, historiography, or historical-method manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's meta-level theoretical bar, its historiographical and conceptual expectations, house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

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# History and Theory (history-and-theory)

## Journal positioning

History and Theory, published for Wesleyan University (Wiley), is the leading venue for
the philosophy of history, historical theory, historiography, and the epistemology and
method of history. It is a **meta-level** journal: its object is not the past itself but
historical thinking — how historians explain, narrate, periodize, represent, and justify
claims about the past, and what concepts and methods underwrite that practice. Its
defining expectation is an original **theoretical or methodological argument** that
advances debate about historical knowledge, engaging the relevant theoretical literature
with philosophical care. A straightforward archival case study with no theoretical or
methodological stake is a misfit here, however accomplished as empirical history. This
skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** aid. It does not replace the journal's
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