2025 - CONTINGENT

Shorts

Alison’s Contingent Story

By Alison G. Laurence | May 9, 2025

People are genuinely curious about the past and excited to encounter it in unexpected ways.

Bonus

The Last Frontier

By Rebecca Brenner Graham | May 3, 2025

Antisemitism was as integral to this story as imperialism.

Reviews

Framing Resistance

By Josthin Amado | April 26, 2025

Loiselle provides insight and inspiration for reimagining solidarity.

Postcards

Return to Para-con

By Robert Skvarla | April 7, 2025

Everyone wants answers.

Mailbag

When Is History Advocacy?

By Nick DeLuca | March 30, 2025

Advocacy should not be a dirty word.

Shorts

Academic Bureaucrats and Sensitive Townspeople

By Jen Rodriguez | March 18, 2025

I expected to side with the academics.

Reviews

Playing the Lottery

By Aaron Jesch | March 2, 2025

Despite calls for its elimination, the DV Lottery persists.

Mailbag

What Does A Public History Consultant Do?

By Nicole Belolan | February 25, 2025

There are so many wonderful opportunities in this field. Sometimes, you create your own.

Mailbag

Are You Making Money As A Consultant?

By Nicole Belolan | February 18, 2025

When I tell people I’m a consulting public historian, this is how they respond.

How I Do History

How Rebecca Brenner Graham Does History

By Contingent Magazine | February 2, 2025

“I was fortunate to do graduate school during the height of academic blogging.”

Bonus

Food For Interplanetary Thought

By A. Gabrielle Westcott | January 26, 2025

“I do not understand why you take the trouble to consume this bulk material to sustain yourselves.”

Reviews

Madam Secretary

By Adina M. Yoffie | January 19, 2025

Even within an uncaring government bureaucracy, one person could make a difference.

Field Trip

“HAVE QUOTES ABOUT SALIERI”

By Kristin M. Franseen | January 10, 2025

How someone already convinced of a conspiracy theory reads non-conspiratorial sources.