Abstract This article examines the video essay in this issue, “Visualizing Resilience from the Periphery: Social Movements, Visual Archives, and the Megacity,” and the video essay as a form of historical argumentation. First, the article traces how the video essay reconstructs a visual lexicon that fostered resilience among social movements from the urban peripheries of South America’s most populous city, São Paulo, during Brazil’s civil-military dictatorship (1964–85) and the democratic transition that followed. Popular artists illustrated movement paraphernalia with hand-drawn images of diverse subjects, including urban landscapes, public life, neighborhood organizing, and open protest. The video essay assembles these dispersed illustrations as well as soundscapes and clips from films into distinct phases of a metanarrative connecting the rise of the megacity to collective social action. It subsequently disassembles those focal points to underscore the open-ended and iterative nature of visual argumentation. The article then underscores how the video essay as a form of peer-reviewable argumentation allows historians to creatively engage with a large corpus of visual imagery. It concludes by discussing issues inherent to the form, such as the difference between written and visual argumentation, citation practices, integration of text, translation of foreign languages, and the preservation of digital scholarship, among others.

Daniel McDonald

The American Historical Review

The American Historical Review (AHR) is the official publication of the American Historical Association (AHA). The AHA was founded in 1884 and chartered by Congress in 1889 to serve the interests of the entire discipline of history. Aligning with the AHA’s mission, the AHR has been the journal of record for the historical profession in the United States since 1895—the only journal that brings together scholarship from every major field of historical study. The AHR is unparalleled in its efforts to choose articles that are new in content and interpretation and that make a contribution to historical knowledge.

The American Historical Review (AHR) is the official publication of the American Historical Association (AHA). Founded in 1884 and chartered by Congress in 1889, the AHA serves the interests of the entire discipline of history. Since 1895, the AHR has been the journal of record for the historical profession in the United States, uniquely bringing together scholarship from every major field of historical study. The AHR is unparalleled in its efforts to select articles that are new in content and interpretation, contributing significantly to historical knowledge.

《American Historical Review》是美国历史协会（AHA）的官方出版物。AHA成立于1884年，并于1889年获得国会特许，旨在服务于整个历史学科的利益。自1895年以来，《American Historical Review》一直是美国历史专业的记录期刊，是唯一汇集各个主要历史研究领域学术成果的期刊。该期刊在选择内容新颖、解读独特并对历史知识有贡献的文章方面，具有无与伦比的努力。

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