Editor's Note
Hello, historians: On behalf of the entire S-USIH 2020 Program Committee, welcome to a year of “Revolution & Reform”! Click on each panel date or title to register for the Zoom webinar, and check back here for new events and updates. Registration is FREE but it is REQUIRED for EACH event. Our FAQ’s about the conference series are here.
As an organization, we are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusiveness. We recognize that our events may potentially conflict with professional and personal schedules, family responsibilities, and religious observance. We deeply regret any conflict that may arise, and we will make recordings available for all to enjoy, pending the participants’ consent.
We’re on deck for your queries and good ideas via email ([email protected]), Facebook, and Twitter (@Ideas_History). Thank you, be well, and enjoy our conference!
#USIH2020 WEBINAR PRESENTATIONS (ALL VIA ZOOM)
MONDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER 2020, 7PM EST
Opening Keynote Address: Danielle Allen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, and Director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, is a political theorist who has published broadly in democratic theory, political sociology, and the history of political thought. Widely known for her work on justice and citizenship in both ancient Athens and modern America, Allen is the author of The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens (2000), Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown vs. the Board of Education (2004), Why Plato Wrote (2010), Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality (2014), Education and Equality (2016), and Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. (2017). She is the co-editor of the award-winning Education, Justice, and Democracy (2013, with Rob Reich) and From Voice to Influence: Understanding Citizenship in the Digital Age (2015, with Jennifer Light). She is a former Chair of the Mellon Foundation Board, past Chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Allen is also the principal investigator for the Democratic Knowledge Project, a distributed research and action lab at Harvard University. The Democratic Knowledge Project seeks to identify, strengthen, and disseminate the bodies of knowledge, skills, and capacities that democratic citizens need in order to succeed at operating their democracy. The lab currently has three projects underway: the Declaration Resources Project, the Humanities and Liberal Arts Assessment Project (HULA), and the Youth and Participatory Politics Action and Reflection Frame.
MONDAY, 5 OCTOBER 2020, 7PM EST
In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy
Chair: Andrew Hartman, Illinois State University
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Joel Isaac, University of Chicago
Guy Emerson Mount, Auburn University
Kevin M. Schultz, University of Illinois-Chicago
Respondent: Katrina Forrester, Harvard University, and 2020 S-USIH Book Prize Winner
MONDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2020, 7PM EST
Marxism in America: From the First International to the Crisis of the New Left
Chair: Edward Remus, Northeastern Illinois University Library
Pamela C. Nogales, New York University, “The International Workingmen’s Association in the United States and the American Reform Tradition”
Reid Kane Kotlas, Independent Researcher, “The Only Conservative Force: Revolution and Reform in the Debsian Socialist Tradition”
Marco Aurelio Torres, University of Chicago, “Renaissance and Counterrevolution: Mexican Art and U.S. Politics in the 1920s”
Edward Remus, Northeastern Illinois University Library, “The Other Shachtmanism: Social Democrats, USA and Cold War Social Democracy In Extremis”
Spencer A. Leonard, University of Virginia, “Hal Draper’s Return to Marx and the Crisis of the American New Left”
MONDAY, 26 OCTOBER 2020, 7PM EST
Centering Native Voices in Intellectual History
Chair: Emily Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University
Philip Deloria, Harvard University
Christine DeLucia, Williams College
Linford Fisher, Brown University
Sandy Littletree, University of Washington
David Martinez, Arizona State University
Kiara Vigil, Amherst College
MONDAY, 2 NOVEMBER 2020, 7PM EST
The Suffrage Movement in America’s Intellectual Tradition
Co-Sponsored with Mormon History Association
Chair: Katherine Kitterman, Better Days 2020
Benjamin E. Park, Sam Houston State University
Martha S. Jones, The Johns Hopkins University
Cathleen D. Cahill, Penn State University
Sara Egge, Centre College
Allison K. Lange, Wentworth Institute of Technology
SATURDAY, 7 NOVEMBER 2020, 11:30AM EST
S-USIH Annual Business Meeting
Tim Lacy, President, and the Executive Committee of S-USIH
MONDAY, 9 NOVEMBER 2020, 7PM EST
The Intellectual Ecosystem of the Extreme Rightwing, 1945-1990
Chair: Chris Babits, Utah State University
Augusta Dell’Omo, Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, “‘A Fate Worse than Apartheid’: The White International Resists U.S. Sanctions Policies, 1980-1986”
Simon Purdue, Northeastern University, “Intersectional Hate: William Luther Pierce and the Identity Politics of the Global Extreme-Right”
Anna Duensing, Yale University, “‘An American Organization, A Hundred Per Cent’: The National Renaissance Party and the Role the Global Far Right in Grassroots Massive Resistance”
“Safe at Home,” Kadir Nelson (2005), Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
TUESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2020, 7PM EST
The Worlds of Sport and Intellectual History
Chair: Amy Bass, Manhattanville College
Andrew McGregor, Dallas College
Paul Putz, Baylor’s Truett Seminary
Robert Greene II, Claflin University
SUNDAY, 15 NOVEMBER 2020
Do you hear the people sing? Gather your family and friends, grab the popcorn, and join us on Twitter for a very special #HATM (Historians At The Movies) event with a revolutionary twist. Follow @HerbertHistory for details!
MONDAY, 16 NOVEMBER 2020, 7PM EST
Recovering the Centrality of Social Democracy in the Early Twentieth Century
Chair: Gerald Friedman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
John P. Enyeart, Bucknell University, “Social Democracy, Human Rights, and Antifascism, 1880-1940”
Rosanne Currarino, Queens University, “E.R.A. Seligman, Economic Thought, and Social Democracy, 1890-1920”
Richard Schneirov, Indiana State University, “Walter E. Weyl, John Graham Brooks, and William English Walling and American Social Democracy”
“Brook Farm,” Josiah Wolcott, ca. 1846. Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society
MONDAY, 23 NOVEMBER 2020, 7PM EST
The Politics of Utopia in the Long Nineteenth Century
Chair: Leilah Danielson, Northern Arizona University
Ashley Garcia, University of Texas at Austin, “An Alternative Mode of Reform: The Program of Association in Antebellum America”
Daniel Joslyn, New York University, “When Love Came of Age: The Explosive Popularity of Mystical Socialism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”
Brigitte Koenig, Seton Hall University, “Envisioning Anarchy: The Search for an American Anarchist Utopia”
Christopher Arnold, Fairmount Community Library, “The Madonnas of 20th Century Mystical Materialism: Dorothy Day, Joan Baez and the Radical Christian Anti-Nationalism of the Cold War”
TUESDAY, 24 NOVEMBER 2020, 7PM EST
In Search of Discipline: The Constructed Theories of the American Carceral State
Chair: Beverly Gage, Yale University
Thomas Dumm, Amherst College, “Rethinking Origins of the American Carceral: Foucauldian Discipline and the Issue of Chattel Slavery”
Brittany Arsiniega, Furman University, “Normative Orders in Police Subculture and the International Association of Chiefs of Police, 1893-1905”
Anthony Gregory, Brown University, “New Deal Penology and the Rise of Carceral Liberalism”
Brendan Dooley, Mount St. Mary’s University, “Integrating Criminology through Creative Destruction: On the Career of Travis Hirschi”
MONDAY, 30 NOVEMBER 2020, 7PM EST
Religion, Conservatism, and Politics in the Long View
Chair: Paul Murphy, Grand Valley State University
Elesha Coffman, Baylor University, “Andrew Carnegie’s American Dream”
Paul Murphy, Grand Valley State University, “Humanism, Religion, and the Conservative Battle for the American Mind”
Michelle Nickerson, Loyola University Chicago, “God and Man at the Society for U.S. Intellectual History Conference”
Daniel K. Williams, University of West Georgia, “White American Evangelicals and Political Conservatism: A Natural Alliance?”
Respondent: Gillis J. Harp, Grove City College
Boston Stock Exchange, November 1988
MONDAY, 7 DECEMBER 2020, 7PM EST
Reform and Revolution in Business Thought and Rhetoric
Chair: Quinn Slobodian, Wellesley College
Kwelina Thompson, Cornell University, “‘We Have a World to Rebuild’: Women and Small Business in New York State”
Erik Baker, Harvard University, “Social Entrepreneurship: Reform and the Origins of Privatization, 1960-1980”
Sean Delehanty, The Johns Hopkins University, “‘Give Stock a Chance’: Shareholder Value and Executive Compensation 1970-2000”
Nicholas Foster, University of Chicago, “Neo-liberal Acquiescence, or New Democrat Reform?: The Tax Reform Act of 1986 and the Limits of the Reagan Revolution”
Protest poster, ca. 1960s, Tufts Digital Collections and Archives
MONDAY, 14 DECEMBER 2020, 7PM EST
Resistance to Reform in United States Education, 1960s to Present
Chair: Michelle Nickerson, Loyola University, Chicago
Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University emerita, “The New York Intellectuals and the Student Movement”
Lauren Lassabe, University of New Orleans, “‘Balancing’ the Academy: The Intercollegiate Studies Institute”
Chris Broadhurst, University of New Orleans, “Faculty and Staff: The Tempered Radicals”
Seth Blumenthal, Boston University, “Going on Tour: Bill Brock, New Republicans and Campus Politics, 1968”
Bobby Cervantes, University of Kansas, “‘Eliminates the Greedy and Feeds the Needy’: The Politics of Hunger in American Schools”
MONDAY, 11 JANUARY 2021, 7PM EST
Heather Cox Richardson, Boston College
Valencia Abbott, Rockingham Early College High School, Wentworth, NC
Jeremi Suri, University of Texas at Austin
Alexis Coe, Independent Scholar
Sara Georgini, Massachusetts Historical Society
MONDAY, 25 JANUARY 2021, 7PM EST
Author-Meets-Readers: Christopher Tomlins, In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History
Chair: Kunal Parker, University of Miami Law School
Manisha Sinha, University of Connecticut
Chad Williams, Brandeis University
Respondent: Christopher Tomlins, University of California Berkeley
MONDAY, 1 FEBRUARY 2021, 7PM EST
Polarization: What Role for History Commentary?
Chair: Daniel Wickberg, University of Texas at Dallas
Paul Croce, Stetson University, “Beyond Acrimony, Inc.: A William James Frame for Understanding and Making Use of Recent Polarization”
Nicole Hemmer, Columbia University, “Commentary Across the Epistemological Divide”
Tim Lacy, University of Illinois College of Medicine, “Anti-Intellectualism and Polarization in Culture, Society, and Politics”
Kathleen Sands, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, “Religion, Science, and Race in the Scopes Trial of 1925: An Origin Story of Polarization in American Public Discourse”
Lisa Szefel, Pacific University Oregon, “United States of Contempt: The Emotional Threat to Democracy”
M.I.T. Chapel, Eero Saarinen, 1955
MONDAY, 8 FEBRUARY 2021, 7PM EST
Illiberal Liberals: The Complexities of Progressive Ideals in the Twentieth-Century United States
Chair: Augusta Dell’Omo, The University of Texas at Austin
Chris Babits, Utah State University, “The Mark of Oppression: The Psychoanalytic Thought and Moralizing ‘Liberalism’ of Abram Kardiner”
David Mislin, Temple University, “Consistent Morals, Inconsistent Politics, and the Plight of Small-Town Religious Liberals in the1960s and 1970s”
Lora D. Burnett, Collin College, “The Zulus and Tolstoy in the Crimea: Or, ‘What the Hell Is Western Civilization, Anyway?’”
Comment: Benjamin L. Alpers, University of Oklahoma
Boston Athenaeum (founded 1807), Edward Clarke Cabot, 1847
TUESDAY, 9 FEBRUARY 2021, 7PM EST
How to Publish a Journal Article
Chair: Andrew Klumpp, Annals of Iowa, State Historical Society of Iowa
Angus Burgin, Modern Intellectual History, The Johns Hopkins University
Veronica Martinez-Matsuda, Cornell University
Kate Masur, Journal of the Civil War Era, Northwestern University
Josh Piker, William and Mary Quarterly, College of William & Mary
“In the Loge,” Mary Cassatt, 1878 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
MONDAY, 22 FEBRUARY 2021, 7PM EST
Chair: Helena Rosenblatt, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Glory M. Liu, Brown University, “Adam Smith in America: Rediscoveries and Reinventions”
Andrew Hartman, Illinois State University, “Karl Marx’s America? An American Karl Marx?”
Claire Rydell Arcenas, University of Montana, “How to Write about Influence: When Thinkers Become Adjectives (and What to Do About It)”
Gregory Jones-Katz, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, “Deconstruction: An American Institution”
Intellectual History at the Confluence of Sex and Religion
Chair: Monica Mercado, Colgate University
Samira Mehta, University of Colorado, “The Rhetoric of Responsible Parenthood in Secular Debates About Contraception: A Transformation from Theology to Secular Policy”
Katherine Dugan, Springfield College, “The Kippleys, Natural Family Planning, and Catholic Sex Lives”
Suzanna Krivulskaya, California State University San Marcos, “Sex Talk: How U.S. Fundamentalists Went from Avoiding to Addressing a Touchy Subject”
Anthony Petro, Boston University, “Provoking Religion: Art and Memorialization in the U.S. Culture Wars”
Peter Cajka, University of Notre Dame, “Towards an Intellectual History of Abuse”
SUNDAY, 7 MARCH 2021, 12PM EST
U.S. Studies in an International Context
Chair: Virginia R. Dominguez, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Jane C. Desmond, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Manpreet Kaur Kang, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (New Delhi)
Ana Maria Mauad, Universidade Federal Fluminense (Niterói, Brazil)
Ricardo D. Salvatore, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Buenos Aires)
Richard Cándida Smith, University of California, Berkeley
MONDAY, 15 MARCH 2021, 7PM EST
Prison Pedagogy: Teaching History and Ideas with Incarcerated Students
Chair: Peter Kuryla, Belmont University
Molly Reed, Cornell University
Andy Eisen, Community Education Project, Stetson University
Molly Whitted, IUPUI
TUESDAY, 16 MARCH 2021, 5PM EST (NOTE TIME CHANGE)
Co-sponsored with The University of Chicago Press
Early America Imagines the Future
Chair: Emma Hart, University of Pennsylvania
Emily Pawley, Dickinson College
Kenyon Gradert, Auburn University
Evan Haefeli, Texas A & M University
Camp Woodland in N.Y., ca. 1946 (University of Nebraska at Omaha)
MONDAY, 22 MARCH 2021, 7PM EST
Chair: Michael Kramer, SUNY Brockport
Benjamin Serby, Columbia University, “Folk Cosmopolitanism: Tony Schwartz’s New York Recordings, 1945-1960”
Rivka Maizlish, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Folklore as Democratic Education: Norman Studer’s ‘World as Neighborhood’”
TUESDAY, 30 MARCH 2021, 7PM EST
Co-sponsored with University of Pennsylvania Press
Chair: Adam X. McNeil, Rutgers University
Kellie Carter Jackson, Wellesley College
Brandon Byrd, Vanderbilt University
Christopher Bonner, University of Maryland, College Park
SUNDAY, 11 APRIL 2021, 12PM EST
Transatlantic Cultures: Cultural Histories of the Atlantic World 18th-21st Centuries
Chair: Richard Cándida Smith, University of California, Berkeley
Anaïs Fléchet, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Moustapha Sall, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar
Gabriela Pellegrino Soares, Universidade de São Paulo
Cyrille Suire, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
The Oxbow (View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm), Thomas Cole, 1836 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
TUESDAY, 13 APRIL 2021, 7PM EST
Living, Knowing, Sharing: Introducing Traditional Ecological Knowledge to Scholars and Students
Chair: Jason Herbert, Seminole Heritage Services, Inc.
Patty Loew, Northwestern University
Marty Reinhardt, Northern Michigan University
Lea Zeise, Office of Environmental Resource Management, United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc.
Jewel Parker, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
MONDAY, 19 APRIL 2021, 7PM EST
Revolution and Counterrevolution in the 1790s
Co-sponsored with The University of Virginia Press
Chair: Charlene Boyer Lewis, Kalamazoo College
Patrick Griffin, University of Notre Dame
Sandra Moats, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Marlene Daut, University of Virginia
#USIH2020 BLOG PUBLICATIONS
FALL 2020
Jordan Watkins, Brigham Young University, “Mormons and the Making of Constitutions on the Margins”
Federal Theatre Project, Negro Theatre, Sign Painting department, 1936 (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library)
African-American Intellectuals and Their Critics
Chair & Comment: Bryn Upton, McDaniel College
Ross English, The New School for Social Research, “The Paradigm of White Wealth: Racial Capitalism and the Myth of Income in Early 20th Century America”
Kelly Lyons, Boston College, “Left-Wing Nationalism and Racist Backlash: The Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939”
Carl Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School, “Martin Luther King, the Non-Aligned World and US Global Hegemony”
SPRING 2021
Natalie Fuehrer Taylor, Skidmore College, “The Art of Reform: Henry Adams’s Democracy”
Wendy Wong Schirmer, Temple University, “The Jay Treaty Debate, Political ‘Slavery,’ and the Politics of Slavery in the Early Republic”
#USIH2020 TEACHING INTELLECTUAL HISTORY WORKSHOPS & RESOURCES
FALL 2020
SPRING 2021
Benjamin L. Alpers, University of Oklahoma, Reacting to the Past Workshop
SATURDAY, 27 MARCH 2021, 12PM-3PM EST
Beyond the Text: Reading Objects and Images
Whitney Nell Stewart, The University of Texas at Dallas, Workshop Leader
Participants will discuss the use and relevance of material and visual culture to intellectual history, and work together to create a “How to” guide for students to analyze objects and images in the classroom. The workshop will be led by scholars and practitioners of material and visual culture, including historians, art historians, curators, and education directors at museums and historic sites. Panelists include:
Jennifer Van Horn, University of Delaware
Jennifer Hammond and Joey Milillo, Bayou Bend Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Michelle Everidge, Witte Museum
Aston Gonzalez, Salisbury University
Jonathan M. Square, Harvard University
Elizabeth Humphrey, Bowdoin College Museum of Art
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