Dear conference participants, I regret to announce the cancellation of this year’s conference.  The logistical difficulties, not to mention the concerns over safety and the uncertainties about the scope and Read more

The Fifth Annual U.S. Intellectual History Conference and Annual Meeting of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History will be held on November 1 and 2, 2012 at CUNY Graduate Center Read more

Dear readers, Today will by my last day of posting at USIH. It’s been a lot of fun, but I need to turn to other things. Thanks for reading and Read more

Alfred F. Young, Gary B. Nash, and Ray Raphael, eds., Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation (New York: Knopf, 2011). ISBN:978-0307271105. 464pp. Review by Read more

David Sehat I am grateful to Daniel K. Williams, Andrew Hartman, Ray Haberski, and Christopher Hickman for their careful readings and their generous evaluations of my book.They have largely captured Read more

Thomas Frank has a great short piece on the Tea Party in the April 2011 issue of Harper’s. It is behind a paywall, so if you don’t subscribe you can Read more