History Can Be Open Source: Democratic Dreams and the Rise of Digital History

Abstract In an ongoing commitment to experimentation, the AHR invited “open peer review” of a submitted manuscript, “History Can Be Open Source: Democratic Dreams and Rise Digital History,” by Joseph L. Locke (University Houston–Victoria) Ben Wright Texas at Dallas). Given that argued for coexistence transparency alongside formal academic review, subjecting their submission open review made sense. The process itself tested propositions about democratization scholarship they put forth in submission. Their article appears new section AHR, “Writing History Age,” overseen consulting editor Lara Putnam (https://ahropenreview.com/). maturation digital history has propelled historians’ embrace educational resources. But, this argues, access licensing is not enough. history’s earliest practitioners promised just more accessible materials, but broader itself. This therefore moves beyond questions technological innovation rise engage fundamental intractable inequality, community, participatory historical inquiry.