''Radical History Review'' is a

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published by

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. The journal describes its position as "at the point where rigorous historical scholarship and active political engagement converge".Radical History Review
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. muse.jhu.org. Retrieved 2018-02-21. In 1979, the journal advertised that it "publishes the best marxist and non-marxist radical scholarship in jargon-free English". With the 1990s academic shift towards postmodernism, the journal dropped its militant stance to emphasize instead culturalist "issues of gender, race, sexuality, imperialism, and class, stretching the boundaries of historical analysis to explore Western and non-Western histories". In 1999, the editors described "the journal's recent move toward a more overtly political discussion of historical topics".

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'' 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.'"

Jon Wiener Jon Wiener (born May 16, 1944) is an American historian and journalist based in Los Angeles, California. His most recent book is '' Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties'', a ''Los Angeles Times'' bestseller co-authored by Mike Davis. ...

in the 1991 book ''Professors, Politics, and Pop'' wrote, "The journal has recently distinguished itself by publishing a series 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"

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