Submit an Article to EarthChronicle.com!

Our website thrives on submissions. Ordinary people just like us are what make this site work. Everyone has something they are good at: history, science, religion, books, baseball, the internet, fly fishing, ballet, rap music, precision machine tooling, etc. We need everyone’s expertise including your special gifts to build EarthChronicle.com.

If you can help in any of these three areas your support would be invaluable to us…

The Three Kinds of Essays:

1^st, we are looking for people to submit essays about topics not yet covered by EarthChronicle.com. Our database of information grows as we add new submissions. Submissions can be of any length. They can be as short as providing a citation for an idea expressed in an article; research is very important to us. We’re very eager to locate the origin and development of ideas so anything you know about them is valuable. If you know something that we don’t cover at EarthChronicle.com, submit it!

2^nd, we’re looking for essays that provide alternate viewpoints or useful commentary about topics that are already written. Is there a different way to interpret some facts? For instance, was the fall of the Roman Empire a good thing? That’s not really one essay, that’s a number of essays, all with very different points of view. If you have a different opinion than what’s written on EarthChronicle.com, submit it!

3^rd, we’re looking for essays that explain topics that are already covered in a new and interesting way. I may read one essay about why the Fall of the Romans was awful, and be completely confused. However, someone else’s essay may make it perfectly clear. Different people learn in different ways, or understand one way better than another. This could be as simple as writing for different levels of expertise; you would write about a topic differently for a child than for an adult, or for a beginner than for an expert. If you have a different way of explaining an idea on EarthChronicle.com, submit it!

Your Two Jobs when You Contribute:

Once you write a submission, you will need to make sure of two things. First and most importantly, research your essay as carefully as possible. You can simply add the little bit of information that you know, to help us fill in pieces of the puzzle. However, we'd love it if you can spend time studying at the library/interviewing experts/etc. Almost as important as the ideas we post at EarthChronicle.com, are the histories of those ideas. We want to know their origin and how they have survived through history to get where they are today. So provide all the information you know of: the history of who taught whom in your family to tie flies for fishing, or the cite the books and documents that discuss your topic as far back as you know. Create the formal citations if you can, but if you don’t know how, don’t worry. Just give us all the information you have and our research experts can compile it into formal citations for the final draft that is posted on our website.

Second, as with any essay, double check your submission for readability, grammar, and punctuation. A proofreader will check your work, but it should still be of the highest quality you can make it. An optional, but valuable third idea that greatly improves your work is to include a link in your webpage, if you know of a website that interests you on your topic and whose information jives with your research. This gives EarthChronicle.com visitors access to more information on your topic and recognizes other quality websites.

One Last Note: Public Domain…

Submissions include a written essay, webpage(s), images of any kind, graphs, tables, sound files, etc., etc. When you submit your work to EarthChronicle.com, you permit us to freely distribute it. Your work becomes part of the Public Domain. That means anyone, anywhere (including you) have access to that information at anytime and can make whatever use of it you want for your own purposes. In addition, you will be credited as the author of your article when it is posted on our website. Interested? Click here to email us your essay!

Want to help but don’t have an idea for a topic? Check our 10 Most Wanted List!

Note: Since all work submitted to EarthChronicle.com becomes Public Domain, if you use someone else’s work, it must also be legally part of the Public Domain. For example, an article that copies a chapter from John Grisham’s latest book would not be acceptable. John Grisham holds the rights to his book, and only he has the legal right to make his work Public Domain. John Grisham could post his latest book for submission, but no one else can. If proper citations are included in the article however, you can mention an idea of John Grisham’s or quote an important sentence or two.

This is why we hope experts and scholars will take the time to submit their own articles to EarthChronicle.com. In order to encourage you to make your information available in the Public Domain, EarthChronicle.com will happily host a round table for your own project. Team members from across campus or across the globe can trade information easily and develop your project by sending it to your own EarthChronicle.com round table where it will be posted for all the world to see and all your team to easily find and respond to. Your work will retain the names of its authors in perpetuity so everyone knows who deserves credit for your research. And you and your team will be part of a thrilling experience in the EarthChronicle.com community where history is no longer something that you simply read about, but something happening right in front of everyone’s eyes. It also gives your ideas instant public exposure so that your colleagues around the world will know of your achievements the moment they happen! Click here to reserve your Round Table today!