“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
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We have edited a series of short stories, oral histories, anthologies, magazine, academic journals, websites, and books. Have a cohesive, edited message is crucial. Our network extends to print and online publications. We maintain The Chicago Manual of Style, Modern Language Association (MLA), and AP Style Book writing standards. We have served as editors on scholarly publications and have been on blind review boards to analyze authors qualifications for various publications.
70 Degrees is familiar with online distribution and publishing house practices. We ensure your message is expressed cohesively and to the targeted audience. This includes contacting the local and national media to announce your events and increase awareness of your project.
As the Managing Editor of the Welebaethan, the national award winning history academic journal, Jennifer worked with a team of dedicated students. She helped revise graduate and undergraduate articles. She served as the 2012 Welebaethan graphic designer for the 350 pages of research in InDesign for print. She has since volunteered for the bi-annual review board with faculty. 
Jennifer was published in the 2014 Welebaethan. This CSUF History Journal Article Title: “The Home Front: World War II Daily Conditions for Women in Hitler’s Europe to the Golden State”, Received the Editors’ Choice Award.
Jennifer has been a freelance writer for local magazine to academic journals. This includes the We Are Still Here: Moulton Museum in the Southern California Quarterly, 2021.
Cindy has been an anthology editor for scholarly publications. This includes an anthology that was physically printed and distributed electronically.
Cindy participated in UCI’s The Writers’ Circle, a creative writing club. She had her work published in its annual publication, Sins & Taxes. When Cindy was studying at CSUF to receive her masters, she volunteered to help edit the English department’s newsletter The Anecdote. She wrote and edited articles for this publication. As a freelance editor, she has worked on anthologies and magazines.
As board members of the CSUF European Studies Society, Jennifer and Cindy organized community events for hundreds of attendees. They helped with the following functions: Center for Oral and Public History 2013 Hansen Lecture for Professor Portelli on “Harlan County, Kentucky: Thirty Years of Field Work”; “A Journey through European Martial Culture” in March 2013; “Life at the Crossroads of Europe and Asia” in December 2013; “Present and Future Perceptions about Germans and Germany” in April 2013; “Britain’s Historical Participation in the Olympic Games” in November 2012; “Traveling and Studying in the European Periphery” in October 2012; “European Debt on the Crisis and the Future of the European Union” hosted by Wolfgang Drautz, the German General Counsel, in April 2012.
As UCI approved vendors, they created a website, UCI Puertas Project for the Chicano Studies Department under the faculty supervision and advisement of Dr. Ana Elizabeth Rosas. We are currently editing and designing a series of publications for print with Dr. Rosas.
The Keils have reviewed manuscripts and provided edits to the publisher. They reviewed Woody Barnes–A Farmer’s Life in Julian by Scott T. Barnes.
As a pre-print reviewer, we provided feedback for the editorial process with McGraw Hill Publishers.
Southwest Oral History Association website shares regional projects, programs, and highlights our members. Jennifer designed the Southwest Oral History Association’s news blog, social media accounts (@sworalhistory), and newsletters (Summer 2020, Winter 2019, Summer 2019, Fall/Winter 2018 & Summer 2018 newsletter). You can subscribe to the newsletter via the WordPress blog. She organized the SOHA poster session at the Center for Oral and Public History on April 30th, 2016. As the 2018 Conference Chair, she designed the marketing materials for this conference which included tote bags based on Fullerton citrus crate ephemera.
Jennifer served on the Oral History Association 2019 Conference Marketing Committee and 2019 OHA award committee. Cindy chaired a panel and Jennifer presented. They are organizing the SOHA 2020 Conference on September 11-13, 2020 in an all Zoom format.
