The Long
Insurgency

Dossier · 1967–1971

Radical America

An American left journal that published Marcuse and argued over his ideas

Chronology

1967–1971

196719691971
6 dated events
  1. Radical America begins publication Reported · Source 1, paragraph beginning 'Paul and his wife'
  2. Editors meet in Madison Documented · Source 2, p. 1; dated issue masthead
  3. Journal prints Marcuse's essay and Leiss's review Documented · Source 2, masthead; pp. 55–63
  4. Journal prints the Marcuse debate Documented · Source 3, masthead; pp. 3–32
  5. New editorial board begins work Reported · Source 1, Paragraph beginning Toward the end of 1970
  6. Journal relocates to Boston Reported · Source 1, paragraph beginning 'This became the new modus operandi'

Sources

Works and records cited in this dossier. Numbered references in the account lead to entries here.

  1. Radical America, 1967–1999 Brown University Library, Center for Digital Scholarship.
    Original issues and collection history

    Brown University Library, Center for Digital Scholarship, 'Radical America, 1967–1999 ,' collection history, accessed October 2, 2026. A later institutional account used for the journal's origin, editorial changes and relocation.

  2. Radical America, volume 3, number 4, July–August 1969 Radical America editors and contributors. July–August 1969.
    Original issues and collection history

    Radical America 3, no. 4 (July–August 1969). Original scan, Brown University Library . 'Radical America Conference Report,' pp. 1–3; Herbert Marcuse, 'Epilogue to the New German Edition of Marx's 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon,' trans. Arthur Mitzman, pp. 55–59; preliminary Socialist Scholars Conference program on the intervening page; William Leiss, 'An Essay on Liberation,' pp. 61–63. Printed page 55 is PDF page 57. The review's first page is headed 61, despite its contents listing at 60.

  3. Radical America, volume 4, number 3 (April 1970) Ronald Aronson, Martin Jay, Paul Breines and other contributors.
    Original issues and collection history

    Radical America 4, no. 3 (April 1970). Original scan . Unpaginated introduction; Ronald Aronson, 'Dear Herbert,' pp. 3–18; Martin Jay, 'Marcuse's Utopia,' pp. 21–28; Paul Breines, 'Notes on Marcuse and the Movement,' pp. 29–32. Printed page 3 is PDF page 5.

Research notes and unresolved sources

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Original issues and collection history

The issues were inspected as original scans. Their claims about circulation and movement conditions are attributed to their writers. Later organizational uptake remains to be traced.

Complete existing research record