Notes
James Gilbert is Professor of History at the University of Maryland. This article was prepared as an introduction to the clothbound facsimile reprint of the American Fabian published in 1970 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 Publishing Corporation book, American Radicalism, 1890–1960, a collection of all of the introductions written for the Radical Periodicals in the U. S., 1890–1960 reprint series.