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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.
Hats off to all the wonderful new talent in U.S. intellectual history! We had an impressive slate of contenders for our reimagined Henry F. May Fund awards this year. So. Read more
The post Meet the 2023 Henry F. May Fund Fellows 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.
Over the past couple of months I’ve been spending a lot of time with Joan Didion. In addition to re-reading her collected nonfiction, I made my way through Tracy Daugherty’s Read more
The post A Material World 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.
We are delighted to announce that the annual Leo P. Ribuffo Dissertation Prize has been awarded to Erik Baker (Harvard University), for “Entrepreneurial: Management Expertise & the Reinvention of the Read more
The post Announcement: 2023 Leo P. Ribuffo Dissertation Prize first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.
We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2023 Dorothy Ross Prize for the best article in U.S. intellectual history. This award goes to an emerging scholar, defined as Read more
The post Announcement: 2023 Dorothy Ross Prize first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.
We are honored to announce that the 2023 S-USIH Annual Book Prize has been awarded to Kathryn Gin Lum (Stanford University) for Heathen: Religion and Race in American History (Harvard Read more
The post Announcement: S-USIH 2023 Annual Book Prize 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.
I’m very happy and honored to be the Keynote Speaker to the 38th Annual Kickoff Brunch for the University of New Mexico’s celebration of African American History Month. I want Read more
The post *The South*: The Past, Historicity, and Black American History (Part 1) 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.
Welcome to our inaugural group of USIH-IUPUI Community Scholars! In partnership with the Institute for American Thought at IUPUI, we are proud to host such a fantastic array of scholars Read more
The post USIH-IUPUI Community Scholars Spotlight: Rick Townsend 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.
Welcome to our inaugural group of USIH-IUPUI Community Scholars! In partnership with the Institute for American Thought at IUPUI, we are proud to host such a fantastic array of scholars Read more
The post USIH-IUPUI Community Scholars Spotlight: Lauren Lassabe Shepherd first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.
Welcome to our inaugural group of USIH-IUPUI Community Scholars! In partnership with the Institute for American Thought at IUPUI, we are proud to host such a fantastic array of scholars Read more
The post USIH-IUPUI Community Scholars Spotlight: L. Benjamin Rolsky first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.
Welcome to our inaugural group of USIH-IUPUI Community Scholars! In partnership with the Institute for American Thought at IUPUI, we are proud to host such a fantastic array of scholars Read more
The post USIH-IUPUI Community Scholars Spotlight: Drew Maciag first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.
Welcome to our inaugural group of USIH-IUPUI Community Scholars! In partnership with the Institute for American Thought at IUPUI, we are proud to host such a fantastic array of scholars Read more
The post USIH-IUPUI Community Scholars Spotlight: Zachary Jacobson first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.
Welcome to our inaugural group of USIH-IUPUI Community Scholars! In partnership with the Institute for American Thought at IUPUI, we are proud to host such a fantastic array of scholars Read more
The post USIH-IUPUI Community Scholars Spotlight: Matthew Guariglia first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.
Welcome to our inaugural group of USIH-IUPUI Community Scholars! In partnership with the Institute for American Thought at IUPUI, we are proud to host such a fantastic array of scholars Read more
The post USIH-IUPUI Community Scholars Spotlight: Cari S. Babitzke first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.
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