History Can Be Open Source: Democratic Dreams and the Rise of Digital History

In an ongoing commitment to experimentation, the AHR invited an "open peer review" of a submitted manuscript, "History Can Be Open Source: Democratic Dreams and the Rise of Digital History," by Joseph L. Locke (University of Houston-Victoria) and Ben Wright (University of Texas at Dallas). Given that Locke and Wright argued for the coexistence of transparency alongside formal academic peer review, subjecting their submission to an open review made sense. The peer review process itself tested the propositions about the democratization of scholarship they put forth in their submission. The open peer review reports and previous versions can be found at ahropenreview.com.