The Institute's developing editorial approach rests on a commitment to evidence, fair reconstruction of arguments, and intellectual responsibility.
Sources and interpretation
Documentaries and substantive essays should identify the sources supporting their factual claims. Interpretive arguments should make the reasoning connecting evidence to conclusions visible, including important qualifications and rival explanations.
Historical context
Images, recordings, and documents should be described accurately. Illustrative material should be distinguished from a direct record of the event or person under discussion. Archival credits should accompany the finished work.
Criticism and disagreement
Arguments should be represented in terms their serious proponents could recognize. Disagreement is most useful when it identifies a specific claim, premise, inference, or value and explains why it is contested.
Authorship and review
Contributors and their roles should be identified. Work should describe its review status accurately. The introductory essays in this founding website edition are editorial drafts; they are not presented as peer-reviewed scholarship or as finalized research findings.
Corrections
Substantive factual errors should be corrected with a clear explanation of the change. Readers will be able to direct a correction inquiry to the Institute when contact opens.
Correction inquiries