World History Bulletin is seeking quality research essays, experiential learning case studies, and classroom activities for inclusion in its upcoming Spring/Summer 2025 issue, “Disappearances and Preservations in World History.” The issue will explore how our understanding of the past evolves as we revisit, reconsider, and preserve history for future generations.

The theme of “Disappearances and Preservations” raises important questions about who determines what is preserved and what is allowed to disappear, the criteria used to ensure preservation, the motives which inform disappearance or preservation, the evolution of techniques of preservation, the affect of the loss of historical material on future studies, and how selective preservation can prejudice current historical studies.

The Bulletin is interested in submissions covering a range of topics related to the theme of disappearances and preservations, including:

• Suppressing Histories. Studying the efforts of regimes to erase or suppress histories which contradict official narratives.
• Preservation of Historical Memory. The exploration of how histories are documented and by whom. 
• Recovering Histories. Examining histories forgotten or “disappeared” and how they might be recovered.  
• Techniques used in the classroom to introduce and explore disappearances and preservations as part of wider political and sociocultural phenomena.  
• Historiographies of theories and practice concerned with disappearances and preservations in world history.

World History Bulletin therefore invites contributions to a thematic issue on disappearances and preservations in world history. We are especially interested in articles that share novel research or historiographical perspectives which explore the wider economic, sociocultural, and/or political circumstances which result in disappearance or preservation; present innovative/experiential teaching at all levels that employs techniques related to disappearances and preservations in world history; or explore the connection between student engagement and world history as a result of coursework related to the theme “disappearances and preservations.” 

We also welcome short interviews with designers, artists, writers, and scholars and small roundtables on a book, film, or other work.

Submission Guidelines: Research and pedagogical articles should range between 1,500 and 6,000 words in length, including endnote text. The Bulletin accepts submissions which adhere to the style, format, and documentation requirements as outlined in the most recent edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. The Bulletin uses endnote citations, rather than footnote citations. Text of submissions should be double-spaced, rendered in 12-point Times New Roman font, and spelled according to American English standard usage (e.g., favorite, rather than favourite). Submissions should be written in past tense, rather than the literary present, and passive voice should be avoided.

Submission Deadline: July 15, 2025

Essays and questions should be directed to Joseph M. Snyder, Editor-in-chief of World History Bulletin, at bulletin@thewha.org.