Hello all! As the semester comes to a busy end for many of us, this will be a good space to talk about topics under the broad umbrella of intellectual history. If you have conversations you want to pick up from the S-USIH conference, feel free to resume them here! Or, if you’ve read a recent essay or blog post that relates to intellectual history, talk about it here.
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