The American Communist History Journal has updated its Aims and Scopes (see below). Please consider the journal for your research:
American Communist History is a peer-reviewed, non-partisan journal dedicated to publishing the best, most innovative scholarship on the history of communism and its social, political and cultural impact on the United States.
We seek contributions on all aspects of communism and anti-communism including the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) its splinter groups, such as the Trotskyite, Maoist and Lovestoneite Parties and its antecedents, including the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World and nineteenth century Marxist and communitarian movements. We are particularly interested in contributions that address the Communist outreach to and impact on labor movements, ethnic, racial, and women’s groups, and the LGBTQ+ community as well as the global nature of the communist movement.
We accept academic studies, historiographic and bibliography essays that comment on aspects of the literature on American Communism, book reviews, updates on ongoing projects, and essays and creative work related to historical or current events that reflect the perspectives of the author.
Academic studies should be between eight and ten thousand words with endnotes formatted in Chicago style and reflect rigorous original research in both primary and secondary sources.
Historiographic and bibliographic essays should have a unifying theme and be between five and eight thousand words.
Book reviews and project updates should be between eight hundred and one thousand words.
Essays and creative works should have some relevance to American Communism, essays must be informative and balanced and should not exceed five thousand words, Creative works will be considered on a case by case basis.