Puerto Rico: A US Colony in a Postcolonial World?

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This issue of Radical History Review is based on the premise that Puerto Rican history is critically important to U.S., Latin American, and world history, and is at its core a multifaceted story of colonialist oppression and people’s resistance.

(Re)Views: Five-Book Overviews of Puerto Rican History
Two leading historians comment on five b […]

Political Histories of Technoscience

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This special issue of Radical History Review offers case studies of technoscience engaged both with the interdisciplinary tools of science and technology studies (STS) as well as the enduring legacies of radical political critique.

Technoscience, Modernity, and the State

Jonathan Hill, Jr. examines the creation of the largest electrical grid […]

Reconsidering Gender, Violence, and the State

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Reconsidering Gender, Violence and the State Reassessing conflicting narratives of victimization, subjection, retaliation and self-defense, this issue of Radical History Review reconsiders the inter-relationships among gender, violence and the state.

Features Jen Manion analyzes incidents of violence against female prisoners in penitentiaries i […]

Historicizing the Politics and Pleasure of Sport

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This issue of Radical History Review explores the contradictory history of sports as a global cultural phenomenon that has provided opportunities for pleasure, freedom, solidarity, and resistance, as well as the reproduction of class privilege, patriarchy, racism, and inequality.

Features Sean Dinces shows that behind the neoliberal rhetoric of […]

The Other 9/11: Chile, 1973—Memory, Resistance, and Democratization

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This issue of Radical History Review reflects on the legacies of Cold War violence and state terror in Latin America instantiated by the US-backed military coup against Chilean president Salvador Allende Gossens and his socialist Popular Unity government on September 11, 1973. Long before “9/11” became a catchphrase for terrorist attacks on the […]

Sexing Empire

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This issue of Radical History Review contemplates empire as a global process involving sexualized subjects and objects. Contributions from several disciplines reconsider the history of sex and (or in) empire, critically engaging scholars’ recounting of those pasts in recent decades. On balance, the issue highlights fluidity and continuity in the r […]

Queering Archives: Intimate Tracings

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Queering Archives: Intimate Tracings

This collection highlights how archives form as we intimately trace the contours of bodies and longings, including our own, in the past and present. Contributors unfold the queer archive as an evasive and dynamic time and space animated by the tensions of desire, knowledge production, absence, presence, […]

Sound Politics: Critically Listening to the Past

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This issue of Radical History Review explores sound as a critical register of social and political life. The feature essays illustrate the long history of contested soundscapes and offer methodological insights into how we can begin to hear and incorporate them into historical analysis.

Hearing the History of Political Protest Michael Sizer […]