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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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2026 S-USIH Annual Book Prize

2026-06-18T20:38:04Z

The Society of U.S. Intellectual Historians is excited to announce that the co-winners of the 2026 book prize in United States Intellectual History are Andrew Hartman for Karl Marx in Read more

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Callie Avondet on Aaron Fountain Jr.’s High School Students Unite: Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America

2026-06-14T11:44:26Z

While the 1960s and 1970s are often remembered for activism, high school students’ unique efforts have often been overlooked. Aaron Fountain Jr.’s High School Students Unite documents “how high school Read more

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Congratulations to Michael Kramer for being a Finalist for the Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing from the Washington Monthly for his review, “Social Criticism and Intellectual History” about books by Shatz and Scialabba!

2026-06-07T13:41:35Z

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