Conference talks from “One Hundred Years of Communism in the USA”

Editor’s note: The following two essays, by Harvey Klehr and Maurice Isserman, were presented at the “One Hundred years of Communism in the USA” conference, which was held on November 9–10, 2018 at Williams College in Williamstown, MA. The conference was sponsored by the Historians of American Communism. They are lightly edited transcripts of the presentations. Both authors are well-known historians of American communism and have written extensively on that topic. Klehr’s most known work is “The Heyday of American Communism; The Depression Decade” and Maurice Isserman’s is “Which Side Were You On: The American Communist Party during the Second World War.”