Two years ago, in the first issue of volume 23 of the Journal for the History of Rhetoric, I announced that the journal had assumed a new name (formerly Advances in the History of Rhetoric), a new look, and a new editor (me). The new name and new look—and perhaps the new editor—signaled a new direction for the American Society for the History of Rhetoric’s flagship journal, one that quickly began to bear fruit as both the readership of the journal and the scope of its subject matter grew.
With this issue of JHR the Society makes another announcement: we have a new publisher, Penn State University Press. Our years with Taylor & Francis were good and productive. Nevertheless, the steering committee of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric felt it was time for the Society to ally itself with a nonprofit, university press. Under the...
