Society for US Intellectual History 2025-11-09T13:16:17Z https://s-usih.org/feed/atom/ WordPress https://s-usih.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-susih-fav-32x32.png Marlén Ríos-Hernández <![CDATA[Marlén Ríos-Hernández on Robert Fitzgerald’s Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan: The Lyrical Lashing of an American Presidency]]> https://s-usih.org/?p=25897 2025-11-09T13:16:17Z 2025-11-09T13:16:17Z Robert Fitzgerald’s Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan: The Lyrical Lashing of an American Presidency (2025) provokes readers to analyze lyrics from a variety of punk bands across the Read more

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]]> 0 Lauren Lassabe Shepherd <![CDATA[Member spotlight: Sanjana Rajagopal]]> https://s-usih.org/?p=25868 2025-10-21T18:48:43Z 2025-11-03T13:00:33Z Sanjana Rajagopal is an adjunct assistant professor at Lehman College, City Tech, and Fordham University. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy in May of 2025. Her dissertation was titled, “A Read more

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]]> 0 Jacob Hiserman <![CDATA[Jacob Hiserman on *David S. Brown, Beyond the Frontier: The Midwestern Voice in American Historical Writing*]]> https://s-usih.org/?p=25893 2025-11-02T13:02:19Z 2025-11-02T13:02:19Z “Flyover country.” “Lost region.” Both are dour phrases describing the Midwest. Jon Lauck used the latter phrase as a title for his 2013 book calling for a renaissance of historical Read more

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]]> 0 Chloe Hawkey <![CDATA[SUSIH 2025: Help! How Do I Navigate Detroit?]]> https://s-usih.org/?p=25889 2025-10-31T14:36:04Z 2025-10-30T01:54:05Z Leaving the Airport
 From the Wayne County Municipal Airport, which is the major international airport, located to the southwest of the city, you have several options for getting into downtown: Read more

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]]> 0 Hani Bawardi and Paul Murphy <![CDATA[SUSIH 2025: Previewing the “Arab American Intellectual History” Opening Plenary]]> https://s-usih.org/?p=25886 2025-10-30T01:58:08Z 2025-10-28T12:05:38Z Anthony D. Smith argues that to be a people is to be rooted in an ethnie—a historic community with shared memories, symbols, traditions, customs, norms, and territory that can evolve Read more

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]]> 0 Juliana DeVaan <![CDATA[SUSIH 2025: Previewing the “American Revolutionaries: James and Grace Lee Boggs and Their Circles in Detroit” Panel]]> https://s-usih.org/?p=25885 2025-10-27T17:41:26Z 2025-10-27T17:41:26Z No intellectual history conference taking place in Detroit would be complete without a session on James and Grace Lee Boggs, “two of America’s foremost radical theoreticians” of the 20th century, Read more

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]]> 0 Dan DiPiero https://www.dandipiero.com/ <![CDATA[Dan DiPiero, *Gender, Genre, and the Shifting Meaning of Indie Rock*]]> https://s-usih.org/?p=25872 2025-10-23T16:29:52Z 2025-10-27T12:00:35Z Indie Rock In Print
In both music journalism and academic scholarship, the term “indie rock” has been overdetermined by associations with men and masculinity for so long that it has Read more

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]]> 0 Richard Cándida Smith <![CDATA[Richard Cándida Smith on Julia Alekseyeva’s *Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s*]]> https://s-usih.org/?p=25883 2025-10-26T12:09:29Z 2025-10-26T12:09:29Z “This book did not emerge out of quiet thought and reflection,” Alekseyeva writes in the conclusion to her book (196).  She began writing while she had taken on conflict resolution Read more

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]]> 0 Rick Townsend <![CDATA[Rick Townsend, *A Visit to the Rhea County Courthouse a Century after Scopes* (Part II)]]> https://s-usih.org/?p=25852 2025-10-17T22:51:39Z 2025-10-20T12:00:36Z Author’s note: I acted as the unofficial videographer during the symposium. I’m not a professional videographer, and some of the sound quality is hard to listen to. Apologies in advance! Read more

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]]> 0 Daniel S. Holt <![CDATA[Daniel S. Holt on Gerald Gamm and Steven S. Smith’s *Steering the Senate: The Emergence of Party Organization and Leadership, 1789–2024 *]]> https://s-usih.org/?p=25862 2025-10-19T12:13:29Z 2025-10-19T12:11:20Z It warms the heart of every political historian when political scientists turn to the historical record to inform their theorizing and understanding of the American political system. Political scientists Gerald Read more

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