Historians of American Communism, a scholarly historical organization established in 1982.
The gathering decided upon the name "Historians of American Communism."
For a selection of the most important titles, see Bibliography on American Communism.
But they did collect 150,000 documents, which seemed to represent promising intelligence on Latin American Communism.
There is still room for honest debate about many aspects of the history of American Communism.
Wartime espionage, an important episode in the history of American Communism, is not the whole story.
Since retiring from the government 10 years ago, Romerstein has continued to function as a scourge of American Communism.
Haynes, too, sees the academic work on American Communism as heavily skewed to the left.
The book remains an important primary document for the study of American Communism in the 1920s and 1930s.
For a time he was also the leading historian of American Communism, writing two authoritative books about it.