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Carlye Mahler is a graduate student in the Department of History at the Ohio State University. Her research interest is in modern US history.
Carlye Mahler is a graduate student in the Department of History at the Ohio State University.
How do you define intellectual history?
To me intellectual history is all about the evolution and impact of ideas. My definition stretches to include those not traditionally considered philosophers or great thinkers.
What are you working on now?
This summer I’m traveling to NYU’s Special Collections to look through their Cookery Ephemera collection and I’m particularly excited to read the community cookbooks written collaboratively between members of community organizations such as churches or women’s clubs.
What’s the primary source we should all be reading or teaching with right now?
Christine Frederick, an expert in home efficiency, is someone I’ve been considering as an intellectual lately with her application of scientific management to to the domestic space. Excerpts from her contributions to Ladies’ Home Journal compiled into The New Housekeeping: Efficiency Studies in Home Management help us read Frederick as a cutting edge intellectual.
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