Founded in 1916, HAHR is the oldest journal of Latin American history, and, since 1926, published by Duke University Press.

Latin-Americanists felt marginalized within the AHA, with few sessions at the annual meeting and limited space within The American Historical Review.

Until the 1944 founding of the journal The Americas, HAHR was the main outlet for publication of scholarly articles on Latin American history.

"[8] Another article on the occasion of the 30th volume of HAHR was by Charles W. Hackett, who also did tabulations of the corpus, identifying authors with the most publications.

[9] The third assessment, by Howard F. Cline, called for "some serious consideration of the methods which were an outgrowth of the 'New History'" and "to restore to our particular historiography a depth of insight, a part of its humanistic base," with young historians immersing themselves in the historiographical traditions of the field.

[11] HAHR's editors' aim in publishing it was to "demonstrate what Soviet historians are doing in Latin American history.

"For the HAHR to publish rebuttals of only a few of the statements would suggest that the remaining ones stand as correct and acceptable, an impression which would be unfair to the other capitalistic historians who were singled out for attention.