Paul Merlyn Buhle (born September 27, 1944) is an American historian, who is (retired) Senior Lecturer at Brown University, author or editor of 35 volumes, including histories of radicalism in the United States and the Caribbean, studies of popular culture, and a series of nonfiction comic art volumes.

[1] Buhle graduated in 1966 from the University of Illinois, where he had been a spokesperson for the chapter of Students for a Democratic Society's antiwar activities.

Buhle was founding editor of the journal Radical America (1967–1999), an unofficial organ of Students for a Democratic Society,[3] founder of Cultural Correspondence (1977–83), a journal of popular culture studies, and founder and director of the Oral History of the American Left archive at New York University in 1976.

Buhle is the co-author of four books on the history of the Hollywood Blacklist, and the editor of a series of graphic non-fiction works by American comics artists and writers, among them Harvey Pekar, Sabrina Jones and Sharon Rudahl.

He has also been a sponsor of New Politics and an adviser on documentary biographies of Howard Zinn, comic artist Will Eisner, and Sacco and Vanzetti, and in the 1980s served as historian for the radio series Grandma was an Activist.