Towards a Black Intellectual History of the Age of Reagan by Robert Greene II Recent American historiography on the 1970s and 1980s has taken seriously the rise of the American Right. Ever since the clarion call issued by Alan Brinkley in his landmark 1994 article in the American Historical Review, (and some historians, such as Leo Ribuffo, would say well before then), American historians have tried to uncover when, exactly, the “New Right” movement takes off, and takes hold, of the Republican Party.[1] Nonetheless, since that 1994 article, the number of monographs and journal articles on the rise of the Read more