About Us
Behind The Ultimate History Project
WPA Poster, Library of Congress
The Ultimate History Project promotes high-quality cutting-edge historical scholarship intended for everyone.
In recent years, an academic job crisis has led many highly trained historians to leave their profession. The Ultimate History Project draws on the skills of many of these scholars, providing them with an opportunity to publish and promote their scholarship. The Ultimate History Project also encourages faculty members to write for the general public and it provides a forum for academically trained historians to work alongside avid genealogists, independent historians, and collectors, enabling them all to collaborate and learn from one another.
The creators of The Ultimate History Project believe that all history lovers deserve accurate, interesting, and easily accessible history.
We love history as much as you do and we want to share it with you!
In recent years, an academic job crisis has led many highly trained historians to leave their profession. The Ultimate History Project draws on the skills of many of these scholars, providing them with an opportunity to publish and promote their scholarship. The Ultimate History Project also encourages faculty members to write for the general public and it provides a forum for academically trained historians to work alongside avid genealogists, independent historians, and collectors, enabling them all to collaborate and learn from one another.
The creators of The Ultimate History Project believe that all history lovers deserve accurate, interesting, and easily accessible history.
We love history as much as you do and we want to share it with you!
Writers and Historians
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Historians who write for The Ultimate History Project are curators, professors, independent historians, genealogists, and collectors.
The Ultimate History Project recognizes that high-quality research, especially when it is conducted outside the academy, requires an investment of time and effort. As a history collaborative, The Ultimate History Project shares ad and subscription revenue among its authors, enabling them to continue to conduct historical research and to be paid for their work.
Subscriptions as well as clicks on our pages and ads helps ensure that historians, many of whom hold full-time jobs outside their field, can continue to fund their research, find opportunities to write about history, and, most importantly, share this research with you.
Please pass information about The Ultimate History Project along to your family genealogist, your teachers, your students, the reenactors you know, and everyone and anyone who just loves history.
The Ultimate History Project recognizes that high-quality research, especially when it is conducted outside the academy, requires an investment of time and effort. As a history collaborative, The Ultimate History Project shares ad and subscription revenue among its authors, enabling them to continue to conduct historical research and to be paid for their work.
Subscriptions as well as clicks on our pages and ads helps ensure that historians, many of whom hold full-time jobs outside their field, can continue to fund their research, find opportunities to write about history, and, most importantly, share this research with you.
Please pass information about The Ultimate History Project along to your family genealogist, your teachers, your students, the reenactors you know, and everyone and anyone who just loves history.
How the Ultimate History Project Works
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Articles appear free on The Ultimate History Project for two months; after two months, articles disappear behind a paywall. Articles behind a paywall can be accessed via a subscription.
The Ultimate History Project intentionally keeps subscription prices low ($25 for a year-long subscription) to enable and ensure that high school teachers and students can read and access these articles. You can buy a subscription to The Ultimate History Project for less than an old-fashioned cup of joe per month---and it's a lot less than a latte a month at Starbucks. Better yet, a subscription gives you something to read while you are enjoying that cup of joe.
Revenue from paywall articles is shared among authors, with a small proportion of these fees being used to maintain The Ultimate History Project. You can also buy funky WPA tee shirts, mugs with historical images, and other products via our shop.
If you want to continue to read The Ultimate History Project for free, we recommend making us your homepage. New articles appear bi-weekly and having us as your homepage will ensure that you get a chance to read articles before they disappear behind a paywall. Please click through pages and ads as you read as that enables us to increase our ad revenue and therefore pay for the articles you are reading.
Feature articles, as well as articles on set topics, appear every Monday and Wednesday.
Check out our site frequently, however, as we may post special pieces on random days!
Sign up for bi-weekly updates from The Ultimate History Project at daily@ultimatehistoryproject.com
Sign up for weekly updates from The Ultimate History Project at weekly@ultimatehistoryproject.com
We never sell your contact information to anyone else and we never send you additional emails beyond the update.
The Ultimate History Project intentionally keeps subscription prices low ($25 for a year-long subscription) to enable and ensure that high school teachers and students can read and access these articles. You can buy a subscription to The Ultimate History Project for less than an old-fashioned cup of joe per month---and it's a lot less than a latte a month at Starbucks. Better yet, a subscription gives you something to read while you are enjoying that cup of joe.
Revenue from paywall articles is shared among authors, with a small proportion of these fees being used to maintain The Ultimate History Project. You can also buy funky WPA tee shirts, mugs with historical images, and other products via our shop.
If you want to continue to read The Ultimate History Project for free, we recommend making us your homepage. New articles appear bi-weekly and having us as your homepage will ensure that you get a chance to read articles before they disappear behind a paywall. Please click through pages and ads as you read as that enables us to increase our ad revenue and therefore pay for the articles you are reading.
Feature articles, as well as articles on set topics, appear every Monday and Wednesday.
Check out our site frequently, however, as we may post special pieces on random days!
Sign up for bi-weekly updates from The Ultimate History Project at daily@ultimatehistoryproject.com
Sign up for weekly updates from The Ultimate History Project at weekly@ultimatehistoryproject.com
We never sell your contact information to anyone else and we never send you additional emails beyond the update.