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With a country as large and as diverse as the United States, writing a truly national history, of any kind, is a tall order indeed. By necessity, shortcuts have to Read more
The post Scott Ellsworth on Bob Blauner’s *Black Lives, White Lives: Three Decades of Race Relations in America* first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.
In the historiography of the United States, studies of the relationship between liberalism and the political arena usually focus on the domestic—on movements and parties, on public policy and electoral Read more
The post Robert Mason on Leon Fink’s *Undoing the Liberal World Order: Progressive Ideals and Political Realities Since World War II* first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.
In a passage of the manuscripts of The German Ideology (1846) Marx argued that ideology had “no history”. It’s their social being, as he famously wrote, that determines man’s consciousness Read more
The post “History Without Ideology”: Daniel Zamora Vargas on Paul Starr and Julian E. Zelizer’s *Defining the Age: Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours* first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.
In the classical first novel by an American Black, Black Boy, Richard Wright describes his re-encounter with his long-estranged father, a poor sharecropper.
… I realized that, through ties of Read more
The post Anthony P. Maingot on Musal Younis’s *On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anti-Colonial Thought* first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.
Emily Abel’s book Sick and Tired: An Intimate History of Fatigue, is framed by her own personal account of fatigue following her recovery from breast cancer. It is an intimate Read more
The post Catharine Coleborne on Emily K. Abel’s *Sick and Tired: An Intimate History of Fatigue* first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.
The self-proclaimed “ ‘freemen of Albemarle County,’ “ where Thomas Jefferson lived, provocatively declared there to be a “ ‘GREAT GOLDEN LINE [sic] ’ “ during Fall 1776 efforts to Read more
The post Elizabeth Tandy Shermer on Timothy Shenk’s *The Realigners: Politicians, Pundits, and the Quest to Govern America* first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.
Shannan Clark has written a subtle history about a curious topic: white-collar unionism. Focusing on an emerging group of professionals—writers, editors, designers, producers, directors, clerks, advertisers, marketers, even some managers—he Read more
The post White Collar Blues: Michael J. Kramer on Shannan Clark’s *The Making of the American Creative Class: New York’s Culture Workers and Twentieth-Century Consumer Capitalism* first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.
Robert C. McGreevey’s Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration traces the political history of Puerto Rican migration to the United States from the Read more
The post Naida Garcia-Crespo on Robert C. McGreevey’s *Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration* first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.
Over the last decade, scholarship revisiting the second wave of feminist activism has exploded. Julie Willett’s book, The Male Chauvinist Pig: A History, makes an especially unique contribution to that Read more
The post Christine Talbot on Julie Willett’s *The Male Chauvinist Pig: A History* first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.
In Oil Money, historian David Wight convincingly shows how, between the late 1960s and the late 1980s, “petrodollars” – that is, dollar-denominated revenues from international oil transactions – became a Read more
The post Duccio Basosi on David M. Wight’s *Oil Money: Middle East Petrodollars and the Transformation of US Empire, 1967-1988* first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.
Presenting a “dual literary and intellectual history” (27), Michael Trask contends that the 1970s saw “the revival of subjectivity in postmodern society” (1). He argues that seemingly disparate groups such Read more
The post Mark Newman on Michael Trask’s *Ideal Minds: Raising Consciousness in the Antisocial Seventies* first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.
Robey’s careful study examines the first decades after Hiroshima to explore changes in relations between the US state and citizens living in the shadow of a potential nuclear war. Her Read more
The post Itty Abraham on Sarah E. Robey’s *Atomic Americans: Citizens in a Nuclear State* first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.
Jon Lewis’s Road Trip to Nowhere examines Hollywood’s encounters with the counterculture from approximately 1967 to 1976. He argues that the major studios found it difficult to market the counterculture. Read more
The post Damon Bach on Jon Lewis’s *Road Trip to Nowhere* first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.
In a signal moment in Behold the Land, his account of the rise of Black Arts in the South, James Smethurst describes the improvisational work required of actors at the Read more
The post Jane Kuenz on James Smethurst’s *Behold the Land*, Kristin Waters’s *Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought*, and Derrick P. Alridge et. al.’s *The Black Intellectual Tradition* first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.
There is no lack of books offering a broad perspective on pseudoscience. Can a new overview add something important? Yes, Michael Gordin’s book adds at least two important aspects to Read more
The post “Classifying Pseudoscience”: Sven Ove Hansson on Michael D. Gordin’s *On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience* first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.
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