The Oral History Review, the official publication of the Oral History Association, is the U.S. journal of record for the theory and practice of oral history and related fields.  Its primary mission is to explore the nature and significance of oral history and advance understanding of the field among scholars, educators, practitioners, and the general public.  The Review publishes narrative and analytical articles and reviews, in print and multimedia formats, that present and use oral history in unique and significant ways and that contribute to the understanding of the nature of oral history and memory.  It seeks previously unpublished works that demonstrate high-quality research and that offer new insight into oral history practice, methodology, theory, and pedagogy.  While based in the U.S., the OHR reflects the international scope of the field and encourages work from international authors and about international topics.

   The Oral History Review is now offered by Oxford Journals.

Submissions Procedures

Correspondence regarding all editorial matters, including the development of the journal generally and the development of individual submissions specifically, should be directed to: Kathryn Nasstrom, Editor, The Oral History Review, Department of History, University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA 94117-1080. Actual submissions of articles to be considered for publication should be sent to: Troy Reeves, Managing Editor, The Oral History Review, Oral History Program, Archives & Records Management Services, 430 Steenbock Memorial Library, 550 Babcock Drive, Madison, WI 53706.  Correspondence regarding, and submissions of, solicited and unsolicited book reviews, should be directed to: John Wolford, 2600 Top Hill Road, Louisville, KY, 40206. Correspondence regarding, and submissions of, reviews of non-print materials (including films, exhibits, performances, and other multimedia and hypermedia formats) should be directed to: Jennifer Abraham Cramer, LSU Libraries Special Collections, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803.  Correspondence regarding the development of multimedia submissions should be directed to: Doug Boyd, Director, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, Margaret I. King Building, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington, KY  40506-0039.

Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout (including footnotes and quotations) and prepared according to The Chicago Manual of Style .  The Oral History Review does its work in the Microsoft Word format, and submissions should be as a .doc or .docx file.  (Authors who have concerns about working in this format should contact the Managing Editor.)   Article manuscripts should be submitted electronically via email attachment to the Managing Editor (contact information above) and review manuscripts should be submitted electronically via email attachment to the appropriate review editor (contact information above).  Article manuscripts should not exceed 7,500 words in length.  Because article manuscripts are evaluated anonymously, an author’s name should appear only on the title page.  (Note that is applies only to article submissions, not to submissions of book or non-print reviews.)  Manuscripts submitted for publication to other journals should not be sent simultaneously to The Oral History Review, nor should the same or very similar article be published in another journal or periodical if it is to be published in The Oral History Review.

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Submitting books for reviews in The Oral History Review

Please send books you would like to see reviewed in The Oral History Review to book review editor John Wolford, wolford.john@gmail.com.

John Wolford 
2600 Top Hill Road
Louisville, KY 40206