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Andrew Hartman on Steven Hahn’s Illiberal America: A History

2026-08-09T12:12:54Z

The timing of Steven Hahn’s latest book, Illiberal America: A History, is no coincidence. Published in 2024, the same year Donald Trump was elected president a second time despite instigating Read more

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Philadelphia Freedom

2026-08-10T01:01:14Z

Oh, Philadelphia freedom, shine on me, I love ya…
Philadelphia freedom, don’t you know that I love you?

Elton John/Bernie Taupin, “Philadelphia Freedom”

Just in time for the semiquincentennial (or Read more

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Naida García-Crespo on Cotten Seiler’s White Care: The Impact of Race on American Infrastructure

2026-07-26T11:58:20Z

Cotten Seiler’s White Care: The Impact of Race on American Infrastructure offers a history of discourses both about race and human potential, and public spending in infrastructure throughout, mostly, the Read more

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Jason Shaffer on Richard Bell’s The American Revolution and the Fate of the World

2026-07-19T12:18:23Z

On July 4th, 1837, the townspeople of Concord, Massachusetts first heard the lyrics of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Concord Hymn,” which was read and then sung (to the tune of the Read more

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Robert Greene II on Reynaldo Anderson’s Afrofuturism and World Order

2026-07-12T12:25:15Z

The speculative fiction subgenre of Afrofuturism has attracted considerable attention in recent years. While being well-known among African American Studies scholars and science fiction writers since the term was coined Read more

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Call for Applications for the Henry F. May Fund for Graduate Students

2026-06-25T20:22:24Z

We’re delighted to announce that we will award up to 2 Henry F. May Fund research fellowships to graduate students in the amount of $500 each to use toward travel Read more

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Victoria Aquilone on Nancy J. Manring’s A World of Wounds: Rebuilding a Bipartisan Environmental Movement and Cultivating Authentic Hope

2026-07-05T04:40:18Z

In January 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14162 which effectively withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement, an internationally recognized treaty that purposes to address and mitigate the Read more

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“Own Yourself: Nic John Ramos on Race and Bourgeois Health Reform in Late Twentieth-Century Los Angeles”

2026-06-21T12:26:08Z

In Health as Property: Racial Capitalism and Sexual Liberalism in Los Angeles, historian Nic John Ramos delivers an ambitious and deeply unsettling account of race, healthcare, and urban political economy Read more

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2026 Dorothy Ross Prize for Best Article in United States Intellectual History

2026-06-18T20:56:21Z

The Society for U.S. Intellectual History is excited to announce the winner of the 2026 Dorothy Ross prize, Dr. Meagan Wierda for “Statistics ‘in Relation to Themselves’: African American Activists, Read more

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Leo P. Ribuffo Dissertation Prize

2026-06-18T20:47:00Z

The Society for U.S. Intellectual History is excited to announce the winner of the 2026 Leo P. Ribuffo Prize for Best Dissertation in United States Intellectual History is Thomas Own Read more

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