History Matters welcomes submissions from all undergraduates. Please follow these guidelines when submitting papers:

• The deadline for submissions is the last Friday of January.
• Authors may submit papers via e-mail attachment in Microsoft Word format, to histmatt@appstate.edu.
• Please put your name, university, e-mail address, current mailing address, and phone number on a coverpage.
• We are especially seeking papers that utilize primary sources.
• We strongly prefer papers between 10 and 20 pages in length.
• Please do not include your name in the header or footer.
• Please use 1" margins and twelve-point font.
• The body text of all papers should be double-spaced, but footnotes should be single-spaced and ten-point font.
• All papers must include a bibliography of sources used.
• We ask that you use footnotes and conform manuscripts to the Chicago Manual of Style (latest edition), especially for footnote form.
• Only one submission per student will be reviewed.
• We do not accept papers already published or previously submitted to this journal or other academic journals.
• Revisions and additional research may be requested after editorial review, but a request for revision does not guarantee publication.

Please see the FAQs page for more information about the types of papers we are seeking. The editors welcome any questions at histmatt@appstate.edu.