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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.

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Nicole’s Contingent Story

By Nicole Belolan | January 4, 2024

Contingent is what I have always been.

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Stuck

By Bill Black | September 7, 2019

Why did we become historians? Well what if we hadn’t?

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Celebrating the Contingent Community

By Emily Esten | September 6, 2019

This magazine is much bigger than its staff, or even its writers.

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History Is For Everyone

By Marc Reyes | September 5, 2019

For all our planning and grand designs, Contingent’s success has rested entirely on having support from others.

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Showing the Work

By Erin Bartram | September 3, 2019

Sharing the products of historical inquiry isn’t enough—we’ve got to show our work.

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Emily’s Contingent Story

By Contingent Magazine | March 3, 2019

We wanted a site that actively considered the people who would use it.

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Marc’s Contingent Story

By Marc Reyes | February 26, 2019

We are making a bet: that a different approach to historical scholarship will have an audience.

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Erin’s Contingent Story

By Erin Bartram | January 22, 2019

I know what it’s like to feel like history isn’t for me.

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Bill’s Contingent Story

By Bill Black | January 14, 2019

No one’s going to do it for us.

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