history-and-theory
Use when targeting History and Theory or deciding whether a philosophy-of-history, historiography, or historical-method manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's meta-level theoretical bar, its historiographical and conceptual expectations, house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill history-and-theory --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# History and Theory (history-and-theory) ## Journal positioning History and Theory, published for Wesleyan University (Wiley), is the leading venue for the philosophy of history, historical theory, historiography, and the epistemology and method of history. It is a **meta-level** journal: its object is not the past itself but historical thinking — how historians explain, narrate, periodize, represent, and justify claims about the past, and what concepts and methods underwrite that practice. Its defining expectation is an original **theoretical or methodological argument** that advances debate about historical knowledge, engaging the relevant theoretical literature with philosophical care. A straightforward archival case study with no theoretical or methodological stake is a misfit here, however accomplished as empirical history. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** aid. It does not replace the journal's current submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live History and Theory author instructions and style guide. ## When to trigger - The author names History and Theory for a work on philosophy of history, historiography, or historical method and wants
- Journal positioning
- When to trigger
- Scope & topic fit
- Method & evidence bar
- Structure & house style
- Official-submission checklist
- Pre-submission self-check
- Common desk-reject triggers
- Re-routing decision
- Output format
What does the history-and-theory skill do?
Use when targeting History and Theory or deciding whether a philosophy-of-history, historiography, or historical-method manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's meta-level theoretical bar, its historiographical and conceptual expectations, house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill history-and-theory --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 984 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.