The Concord Review Mission
Recognize
Recognize exceptional student scholarship by publishing outstanding high school students' history research.
Inspire
Inspire academic achievement by showcasing what motivated young scholars can accomplish.
Empower
Empower students to excel through seminars and history camps that develop their research, writing, and critical-thinking skills.
Develop
Cultivate lifelong learners by helping students reach their full potential with expert guidance and mentorship.
About Us
The Concord Review, Inc., was founded in March 1987 to recognize and to publish exemplary history essays by high school students in the English-speaking world. With the Fall Issue (#134), 1,460 research papers have been published by authors in forty-six states and forty-one other countries. The Concord Review remains the only quarterly journal in the world to publish the academic history papers of secondary students.
Many of our authors have sent our Singles of their papers with their college application materials, and they have gone on to Brown(42), University of Chicago(51), Columbia(37), Cornell(32), Dartmouth(32), Harvard(181), Oxford(23), Pennsylvania(38), Princeton(85), Stanford(136), Yale(147),
and a number of other fine institutions, including Amherst, Berkeley, Bowdoin, Bryn Mawr, Caltech, Cambridge, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Emory, Johns Hopkins, McGill, Michigan, MIT, New York University, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Reed, Rice, Smith, Swarthmore, Trinity, Tufts, Virginia, Washington University, Wellesley, and Williams.
We have sent such exemplary history essays to subscribers (students, teachers, and librarians) in forty-two states and thirty-eight other countries (Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cyprus, England, France, Greece, Holland, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico,
Nepal, New Guinea, New Zealand, Paraguay, Philippines, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Turkey, Venezuela, and Wales). Schools in Bangkok, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Singapore, Texas, Vermont, and Virginia have class sets of the Review, and teachers are using these essays as examples of good historical writing. One girls' school in Monterey, California, has had 70 subscriptions for their history students, Singapore American School now has 125 subscriptions, and Bangkok Patana School in Thailand has a class set for their students of history.
The Concord Review Services
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The Concord Review (TCR) History Camp is an intensive, online, and in-person workshop in historical research and writing for secondary students. Experienced instructors coach students to complete a historical research paper on a topic of their choice.
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TCRHistory Seminar provides a forum for 13-to 15-year-olds to read and discuss History books. Very few U.S. students are ever asked to read a nonfiction book before they finish high school, and those who do are quite often not reading History books.
Thegoal of the History Seminar is to give middle school students an introduction to History books and a chance to enjoy them.
We want to create History buffs who want to read for the pleasure of discovering the past and adding both to their academic vocabulary and their knowledge of civilization
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The National Writing Board provides a unique, independent assessment service for the history research papers of high school students. These papers are evaluated within twelve weeks against an independent academic expository writing standard developed by TCR.
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The Concord Review Academic Coaching Service provides individual, online coaching for high school students interested in going above and beyond their schools’ academic expectations.
During each hour-long lesson, students will receive individual guidance from our coaches in writing an in-depth, high-caliber research paper.
“The Concord Review offers young people a unique incentive to think and write carefully and well…The Concord Review inspires and honors historical literacy. It should be in every high school in the land.”
Will Fitzhugh
-Founder of the Concord Review
Will Fitzhugh discusses why he founded The Concord Review.