- Radical History Review
Radical History Review is a scholarly journal published by Duke University Press. [ [http://chnm.gmu.edu/rhr/rhr.htm Radical History Review ] ]
RHR positions itself "at the point where rigorous historical scholarship and active political engagement converge." [ [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/rhr/ Project MUSE - Radical History Review ] ] The Journal addresses " issues of gender, race, sexuality, imperialism, and class, stretching the boundaries of historical analysis to explore Western and non-Western histories." [ [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/rhr/ Project MUSE - Radical History Review ] ] It advertises that it "publishes the best marxist and non-marxist radical scholarship in jargon-free English. [ Marcuse and Feminism, Margaret Cerullo , New German Critique, No. 18. (Autumn, 1979), pp. 21-23. [http://www.jstor.org/cgi-bin/jstor/printpage/0094033x/ap020019/02a00040/0.pdf?backcontext=page&dowhat=Acrobat&config=jstor&userID=a0272320@columbia.edu/01c0a84871005083e8b&0.pdf] ]
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New Criterion describes RHR as "a publication that plainly states it 'rejects conventional notions of scholarly neutrality and ‘objectivity,’ and approaches history from an engaged, critical, political stance.'" [ [http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/20/jun02/buhle.htm Radical History by Harvey Klehr & John Earl Haynes ] ]"The journal has recently distinguished itself by publishing a seris of interviews with (several historians) exploring the relationship in their work between historical scholarship and political commitment." [Professors, Politics, and Pop, by Jon Wiener, 1991, p. 207" ]
In 1999 the editors described "the journal’s recent move toward a more overtly political discussion of historical topics." [ Radical History Review: Liberalism and the Left,by RHR Collective ]
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