A century ago, in the opening pages of the first issue of the first volume of the Hispanic American Historical Review, J. Franklin Jameson justified the journal's existence based on the fact that “our historical output has greatly increased, and it is far more diversified.”1 He would surely have been stunned at the dramatic increase in the quantity and quality of historical studies published in HAHR over the past century. As for diversity, his reference was likely geographic and topical; of the five historians who in 1918 were published in the “Main Articles” section of the inaugural issue, all were white non-Hispanic men—four from the United States, one from Scotland—and all spent their academic careers in US universities. Of 12 scholars who contributed “main articles” to the first volume, all were white, non-Hispanic scholars affiliated with US universities, and only two were women.2 Few could have imagined...

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