Our Misson
The Concord Review is a journal that showcases the academic excellence and incredible writing ability of high school students. It is meant to inspire others to achieve the next level of performance.
We developed our history camps and seminars to work in line with this mission. We empower students by giving them the skills to realize their learning potential.
About The Concord Review
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 from 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(37), University of Chicago(46), Columbia(33), Cornell(25), Dartmouth(28), Harvard(162), Oxford(21), Pennsylvania(34), Princeton(82), Stanford(114), Yale(136),
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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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.
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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.
Learn More
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TCR History 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 that do are quite often not reading History books.
The goal 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
“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.”
— Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Historian
Will Fitzhugh
-Founder of the Concord Review
Will Fitzhugh discusses why he founded The Concord Review.