Book Reviews | Society for US Intellectual History https://s-usih.org Sun, 09 Nov 2025 13:16:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://s-usih.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-susih-fav-32x32.png Book Reviews | Society for US Intellectual History https://s-usih.org 32 32 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/2025/11/marlen-rios-hernandez-on-robert-fitzgeralds-hardcore-punk-in-the-age-of-reagan-the-lyrical-lashing-of-an-american-presidency/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=marlen-rios-hernandez-on-robert-fitzgeralds-hardcore-punk-in-the-age-of-reagan-the-lyrical-lashing-of-an-american-presidency https://s-usih.org/2025/11/marlen-rios-hernandez-on-robert-fitzgeralds-hardcore-punk-in-the-age-of-reagan-the-lyrical-lashing-of-an-american-presidency/#respond Sun, 09 Nov 2025 13:16:17 +0000 https://s-usih.org/?p=25897 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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]]> https://s-usih.org/2025/11/marlen-rios-hernandez-on-robert-fitzgeralds-hardcore-punk-in-the-age-of-reagan-the-lyrical-lashing-of-an-american-presidency/feed/ 0 Jacob Hiserman on *David S. Brown, Beyond the Frontier: The Midwestern Voice in American Historical Writing* https://s-usih.org/2025/11/jacob-hiserman-on-david-s-brown-beyond-the-frontier-the-midwestern-voice-in-american-historical-writing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jacob-hiserman-on-david-s-brown-beyond-the-frontier-the-midwestern-voice-in-american-historical-writing https://s-usih.org/2025/11/jacob-hiserman-on-david-s-brown-beyond-the-frontier-the-midwestern-voice-in-american-historical-writing/#respond Sun, 02 Nov 2025 13:02:19 +0000 https://s-usih.org/?p=25893 “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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]]> https://s-usih.org/2025/11/jacob-hiserman-on-david-s-brown-beyond-the-frontier-the-midwestern-voice-in-american-historical-writing/feed/ 0 Richard Cándida Smith on Julia Alekseyeva’s *Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s* https://s-usih.org/2025/10/richard-candida-smith-on-julia-alekseyevas-antifascism-and-the-avant-garde-radical-documentary-in-the-1960s/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=richard-candida-smith-on-julia-alekseyevas-antifascism-and-the-avant-garde-radical-documentary-in-the-1960s https://s-usih.org/2025/10/richard-candida-smith-on-julia-alekseyevas-antifascism-and-the-avant-garde-radical-documentary-in-the-1960s/#respond Sun, 26 Oct 2025 12:09:29 +0000 https://s-usih.org/?p=25883 “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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]]> https://s-usih.org/2025/10/richard-candida-smith-on-julia-alekseyevas-antifascism-and-the-avant-garde-radical-documentary-in-the-1960s/feed/ 0 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/2025/10/daniel-s-holt-on-gerald-gamm-and-steven-s-smiths-steering-the-senate-the-emergence-of-party-organization-and-leadership-1789-2024/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=daniel-s-holt-on-gerald-gamm-and-steven-s-smiths-steering-the-senate-the-emergence-of-party-organization-and-leadership-1789-2024 https://s-usih.org/2025/10/daniel-s-holt-on-gerald-gamm-and-steven-s-smiths-steering-the-senate-the-emergence-of-party-organization-and-leadership-1789-2024/#respond Sun, 19 Oct 2025 12:11:20 +0000 https://s-usih.org/?p=25862 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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]]> https://s-usih.org/2025/10/daniel-s-holt-on-gerald-gamm-and-steven-s-smiths-steering-the-senate-the-emergence-of-party-organization-and-leadership-1789-2024/feed/ 0 David Lebow on Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath *The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy* https://s-usih.org/2025/10/david-lebow-on-joseph-fishkin-and-william-e-forbath-the-anti-oligarchy-constitution-reconstructing-the-economic-foundations-of-american-democracy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=david-lebow-on-joseph-fishkin-and-william-e-forbath-the-anti-oligarchy-constitution-reconstructing-the-economic-foundations-of-american-democracy https://s-usih.org/2025/10/david-lebow-on-joseph-fishkin-and-william-e-forbath-the-anti-oligarchy-constitution-reconstructing-the-economic-foundations-of-american-democracy/#respond Sun, 12 Oct 2025 12:28:34 +0000 https://s-usih.org/?p=25849 The Law and Political Economy movement (LPE) assigns significant responsibility for the roiling crises of the contemporary United States to two interrelated developments characterizing prevailing modes of legal thought and Read more

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]]> https://s-usih.org/2025/10/david-lebow-on-joseph-fishkin-and-william-e-forbath-the-anti-oligarchy-constitution-reconstructing-the-economic-foundations-of-american-democracy/feed/ 0 Robert Greene II on Lacy Ford’s *Understanding the American South: Slavery, Race, Identity, and the American Century* https://s-usih.org/2025/10/robert-greene-ii-on-lacy-fords-understanding-the-american-south-slavery-race-identity-and-the-american-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=robert-greene-ii-on-lacy-fords-understanding-the-american-south-slavery-race-identity-and-the-american-century https://s-usih.org/2025/10/robert-greene-ii-on-lacy-fords-understanding-the-american-south-slavery-race-identity-and-the-american-century/#respond Sun, 05 Oct 2025 12:29:35 +0000 https://s-usih.org/?p=25845 Rarely does a book utilize debates about historiography and scholars reckoning with the American past to speak to the present moment as effectively as does Lacy Ford’s Understanding the American Read more

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]]> https://s-usih.org/2025/10/robert-greene-ii-on-lacy-fords-understanding-the-american-south-slavery-race-identity-and-the-american-century/feed/ 0 Kit Candlin on Zeff Eleff *The Greatest of All Time: A History of an American Obsession* https://s-usih.org/2025/09/kit-candlin-on-zeff-eleff-the-greatest-of-all-time-a-history-of-an-american-obsession/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kit-candlin-on-zeff-eleff-the-greatest-of-all-time-a-history-of-an-american-obsession https://s-usih.org/2025/09/kit-candlin-on-zeff-eleff-the-greatest-of-all-time-a-history-of-an-american-obsession/#respond Sun, 28 Sep 2025 12:15:56 +0000 https://s-usih.org/?p=25837 Written by a prominent scholar of Jewish American history and the current president Gratz College, Zeff Eleff, The Greatest of all Time attempts to chart the concept of ‘greatness’ as Read more

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]]> https://s-usih.org/2025/09/kit-candlin-on-zeff-eleff-the-greatest-of-all-time-a-history-of-an-american-obsession/feed/ 0 Miles Yu on Paul W. Schroeder’s *America’s Fatal Leap, 1991–2016* https://s-usih.org/2025/09/miles-yu-on-paul-w-schroeders-americas-fatal-leap-1991-2016/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=miles-yu-on-paul-w-schroeders-americas-fatal-leap-1991-2016 https://s-usih.org/2025/09/miles-yu-on-paul-w-schroeders-americas-fatal-leap-1991-2016/#respond Sun, 21 Sep 2025 12:16:46 +0000 https://s-usih.org/?p=25830 Paul W. Schroeder’s posthumous collection of essays, America’s Fatal Leap, 1991–2016, is a volume of unusual clarity and unusual provenance. Schroeder, trained as a historian rather than a political scientist Read more

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]]> https://s-usih.org/2025/09/miles-yu-on-paul-w-schroeders-americas-fatal-leap-1991-2016/feed/ 0 Fraser Livingston on Joshua Nygren’s *The State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920* https://s-usih.org/2025/09/25825/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=25825 https://s-usih.org/2025/09/25825/#respond Sun, 14 Sep 2025 03:54:56 +0000 https://s-usih.org/?p=25825 Multiple historians have traced the causes that led to the mass exodus of America’s farm population since the early 1900s, one of the most substantial demographic shifts in twentieth-century US Read more

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]]> https://s-usih.org/2025/09/25825/feed/ 0 Naida García-Crespo on Beatrix Hoffman’s *Borders of Care: Immigrants, Migrants, and the Fight for Healthcare in the United States* https://s-usih.org/2025/09/naida-garcia-crespo-on-beatrix-hoffmans-borders-of-care-immigrants-migrants-and-the-fight-for-healthcare-in-the-united-states/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=naida-garcia-crespo-on-beatrix-hoffmans-borders-of-care-immigrants-migrants-and-the-fight-for-healthcare-in-the-united-states https://s-usih.org/2025/09/naida-garcia-crespo-on-beatrix-hoffmans-borders-of-care-immigrants-migrants-and-the-fight-for-healthcare-in-the-united-states/#comments Sun, 07 Sep 2025 12:10:28 +0000 https://s-usih.org/?p=25820 Beatrix Hoffman’s Borders of Care: Immigrants, Migrants, and the Fight for Healthcare in the United States offers a rich history of the struggle for medical care in the United States Read more

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