Notes
William A. Williams is Professor of History at Oregon State University. This article was prepared as an introduction to the dothbound facsimile reprint of Alternative recently published by Greenwood Reprint Corporation. It appears here by permission of. the publisher and the author. The essay will also be included in the forthcoming Greenwood book, American Radicalism, 1890–1960, a collection of all of the introintroductions written for the Radical Periodicals in the U. S., 1890–1960 reprint series.