Contingent publishes accessible, engaging, well-researched pieces on history, the work of doing history, and the community of people involved in that work. We’ve organized our content here by series to help you get started. If you’d like to explore our content thematically, you can do that here.
How I Do History
An ongoing series of interviews exploring how historians—especially contingent historians and those employed outside of tenure-track academia—do the work of history.
Mailbag
An ongoing series answering reader questions about the nuts and bolts of doing history.
Books & Articles
Annual lists of books and journal articles produced by non-tenure-track scholars around the world.
Jose Chung’s December Issue
A December 2023 series on the intersection of The X-Files and history.
History & Mystery
A December 2022 series on the connections between history and the genre of mystery fiction.
A Thing Of The Past
A December 2021 series on the objects that surround us.
Personal Pan Histories
A December 2020 series on food, history, and identity.
Radical Hope
A Summer 2020 roundtable on Kevin Gannon’s Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto.
History Now
A Spring 2020 series on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected contingent historians.
Star Wars
A December 2019 series on the intersection of Star Wars and history, with illustrations by Audrey Estok.
What is Contingent?
Periodic writing from Contingent’s staff on the nature and goals of the project.