BERGHAHN JOURNALS

Historical Reflections/Reflections Historiques has established a well-deserved reputation for publishing high quality articles of wide-ranging interest for over thirty years. The journal, which publishes articles in both English and French, is committed to exploring history in an interdisciplinary framework and with a comparative focus. Historical approaches to art, literature, and the social sciences; the history of mentalities and intellectual movements; the terrain where religion and history meet: these are the subjects to which Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques is devoted.

From the Editors:

The Winter 2010 issue marks the end of the relationship between Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques and Alfred University. Housed under the auspices of The Division of Human Studies for more than twenty years, the journal was edited for most of that time by Stuart Campbell. Daniel Gordon joined Stuart as Co-editor in 2003, and Stuart ultimately turned over the reigns of the senior editorship to Linda Mitchell in 2005. The able stewardship of the journal’s successive Managing Editors, first, Yvonne Goodrich Cassidy and, second, Nancy Albright, kept our thrice-yearly issues flowing smoothly through changes in technology, changes in leadership, and, beginning in 2008, changes in ownership from being the property of Alfred University to a joint ownership between AU and Berghahn Books and Journals. Their labors have been indispensible to the survival of HR/RH through this process.

The financial crisis of the last few years led to the decision of Alfred University’s president, Charles Edmondson, to end the university’s relationship with HR/RH. This means that the journal will be wholly owned by Berghahn Books and Journals, we will lose the heroic services of Nancy Albright, and significant changes to the Editorial Board will be made in the next year. We will be relying on the support of our subscribers—personal and institutional—to help us work through the inevitable hiccups such a transition will produce.

Alfred University was a wonderful home for Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques: many thanks for taking such good care of the journal for more than two decades; our home in Kanakadea Hall will be sorely missed. We are sorry to be saying goodbye, but are very happy that our association with Berghahn Books and Journals will be ongoing and we anticipate being re-energized by the possibilities and challenges such a significant change will offer.

Linda E. Mitchell, Senior Editor
Daniel Gordon, Coeditor

Current Issue

Volume 37 • Issue 3 • 2011

Robert Roswell Palmar: A Transatlantic Journey of American Liberalism

Preface
Lynn Hunt

Introduction
John Layton Harvey

Robert R. Palmer's Catholics and Unbelievers in Eighteenth-Century France: An Overdue Tribute
Dale K. Van Kley

"History Written with a Little Spite": Palmer, Brinton, and an American Debate on the French Revolution
John Layton Harvey

A Transatlantic Friendship: The Close Relationship between the Historians Georges Lefebvre and R. R. Palmer
James Friguglietti

Palmer and Furet: A Reassessment of The Age of the Democratic Revolution
Marvin R. Cox

From Jacobin to Liberal
Paul Hanson

R. R. Palmer and the History of Big Questions
Lloyd Kramer

Subjects: History, Literature