''American Communist History'' is a quarterly
peer-reviewed
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academic journal published by
Routledge on behalf of the
Historians of American Communism
Historians of American Communism (HOAC) is a national academic association, established in 1982, bringing together historians, political scientists, and independent scholars interested in the study of the Communist Party of the United States of Am ...
. It covers research on the historical impact of
Communism in the United States. The journal was established in 2002 and its founders were primarily founding
editor-in-chief Daniel J. Leab
Daniel Joseph Leab (29 August 1936 – 15 November 2016) was an American historian of 20th-century history. He made significant academic contributions to fields of American labor unions and anti-Communism. He was long-time editor of three journ ...
(until 2006; also editor of ''
Labor History''), and
John Earl Haynes.
The journal's
editorial board is balanced between
revisionists and traditionalists and includes some foreign scholars.
The current editor is
Denise Lynn (
University of Southern Indiana).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
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International Bibliography of the Social Sciences[
*]ProQuest databases
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[
* Scopus]
See also
*'' Twentieth Century Communism''
*'' Communisme''
References
External links
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