''American Communist History'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed

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published by

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on behalf of the Historians of American Communism. It covers research on the historical impact of

Communism in the United States The American Left consists of individuals and groups that have sought egalitarian changes in the economic, political and cultural institutions of the United States. Various subgroups with a national scope are active. Liberals and progressives ...

. The journal was established in 2002 and its founders were primarily founding

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Daniel J. Leab (until 2006; also editor of ''

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''), and

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. The journal's

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is balanced between revisionists and traditionalists and includes some foreign scholars. The current editor is

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(

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