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U.S. Intellectual History
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Second Annual USIH Conference Program Draft
A draft of the program for the second annual US Intellectual History conference has been posted to the USIH blog. It lists a plenary address by James Livingston of Rutgers, a retrospective discussion of John Patrick Diggins, and panels on pragmatism and the Cold War era; the intellectual legacy of the 1960s; the intellectual and [...]
“The Varieties of Intellectual Experience”
In a post published last week at the U.S. Intellectual History blog, Tim Lacy writes: Most past works of U.S. intellectual history have focused on public and private figures, institutions, and books that could in some sense be considered “canonical.” I refuse to dismiss all the historians who did that work, in blanket fashion, as [...]
