Journal of Historical Review

Volumes 1-21 · 1980 to 2002

The Journal of Historical Review began publication in 1980. Until 2002, when it ceased to exist, it upheld the tradition of Historical Revisionism of scholars such as Harry Elmer Barnes, A.J.P. Taylor, William H. Chamberlin, Paul Rassinier and Charles Tansill. Until 1992, The Journal of Historical Review was published four times a year in a small format (roughly 5.5″×8″). Since 1993 it appeared bimonthly (in letter size format) by the Institute for Historical Review. Back issues of many Journal issues published since Spring 1986 (Volume 7) are available from the IHR at www.ihr.org. CODOH is the only place where you can find online and for free ALL the papers of ALL the issues ever published, both as html and as PDF downloads. 80% of the work was done by Germar Rudolf, the rest by IHR employees.

You can either download each copy as a searchable PDF file (first table) or read each individual paper online (pull up the table of contents for each issue from the second table below, or navigate the Category menu to the left). The PDF we posted are based on scanned images, processed many years ago with a cheap OCR software. Since they have not been edited, they are riddled with errors.

The Journal of Historical Review, PDF files of each issue, searchable
Year Issues
Vol. 1 (1980) No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4
Vol. 2 (1981) No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4
Vol. 3 (1982) No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4
Vol. 4 (1983) No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4
Vol. 5 (1984) No. 1 No. 2-4
Vol. 6 (1985) No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4
Vol. 7 (1986) No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4
Vol. 8 (1988) No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4
Vol. 9 (1989) No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4
Vol. 10 (1990) No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4
Vol. 11 (1991) No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4
Vol. 12 (1992) No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4
Vol. 13 (1993) No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6
Vol. 14 (1994) No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6
Vol. 15 (1995) No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6
Vol. 16 (1996/97) No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6
Vol. 17 (1998) No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6
Vol. 18 (1999) No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5+6
Vol. 19 (2000) No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6
Vol. 20 (2001) No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5+6
Vol. 21 (2002) No. 1 No. 2 No. 3+4

For the volumes 1 through 17 of The Journal of Historical Review (1980-1998), an index of papers, topics and authors was published in no. 6 of vol. 17 (Nov./Dec. 1998). We have posted this comprehensive list here as a searchable PDF file for your perusal. (An older index encompassing the volumes 1 through 13 of The Journal of Historical Review (1980-1993) is available here.)

Papers in html format for screen viewing are accessible via the indiviudal issues they appeared in, as linked to in the below table.

  • President Roosevelt’s Campaign to Incite War in Europe

    Major ceremonies were held in 1982 to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. With the exceptions of Washington and Lincoln, he was glorified and eulogized as no other president in American history. Even conservative President Ronald Reagan joined the chorus of applause. In early 1983, newspapers and television networks…

  • Pearl Harbor: The Latest Wave

    The latest furious round of publication and ensuing controversy about Pearl Harbor erupted at the end of 1981, and has not simmered down yet. The opening shot was the release in November that year of Gordon W. Prange’s massive At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor. Prange had been working on the…

  • A Note From The Editor

    This issue, we are again privileged to welcome new names onto our distinguished Editorial Advisory Committee. Percy L. Greaves Jr. graduated in Business from Syracuse University in 1929, and studied Economics at Columbia University in New York City. He later worked as Financial Editor of the (now merged) U.S. News. In 1980, he ran as…

  • The Big Lie Technique in the Sandbox

    One of today's pet Indisputable Historical Truths is that the German Chancellor Adolf Hitler advocated the “Big Lie Technique” to discredit and confuse one's political opponents. However, a close look at the German leader's writings displays a somewhat different approach. On pages 134, and 173 of Mein Kampf (My Stuggle) (Hurst & Blackett edition, 1942;…

  • The Holocaust Debate

    Since I was a speaker at the convention here in this city of Los Angeles last year, it seems to me very little has changed in America since that time. You seem to be still living in a “1984” situation where important public issues can't be debated in the media. Perhaps you need some guarantee…

  • How the British Obtained the Confessions of Rudolf Höss

    Rudolf Höss was the first of three successive commandants of the Auschwitz concentration camp. He is often called “the Commandant of Auschwitz,” and the general public knows of him from a book published under the title Commandant in Auschwitz. He appeared before the International Military Tribunal as a witness on 15 April 1946, where his…

  • A Century Ago: The Boer War Remembered

    Mark Weber, director of the Institute for Historical Review, was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. He was educated at Portland State University, the University of Illinois (Chicago), the University of Munich, and Indiana University (Bloomington). He has been editor of The Journal for Historical Review since April 1992. This essay is a revision and…

  • A Note From the Editor

    This issue, we are extremely pleased to welcome onto our Editorial Advisory Committee three very distinguished academics. Thomas Henry Irwin is a graduate of Western Kentucky University, and has taught at Ohio State University. He is now pursuing a law degree at University of Kentucky. Richard Verrall is a History graduate from University of London,…

  • Letters to the Editor

    11 September 1980 Dear Mr. Brandon, As a reader of five to twenty-five books a year (almost none of which are to be found in public libraries), historical Revisionism is the brightest star on my horizon! It is indeed sickening to see what comes out of our so-called “educational” system, and downright revolting to discover…

  • Nationalism, Racialism and Early British Socialism

    Modern socialists would be highly embarrassed to learn of the nationalist and racialist attitudes displayed by many early British socialists. Prominent among these was Robert Blatchford, editor of a newspaper entitled The Clarion, and author of Merrie England (1893) and Britain for the British (1902). (A facsimile reproduction of Merrie England was issued in 1976…

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