Society for US Intellectual History https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Gabriel Bloomfield on Beans Velocci’s *Sex Isn’t Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary* Whitney McIntosh on Lars Cornelissen’s *Neoliberalism and Race* Andrew Scull on Kylie Smith’s *Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South* A.J. Bauer on David Austin Walsh’s *Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right* The Changing Intellectual Landscape of Texas History, Part II, Are We Moving toward a Post-Christian Age? Anja Keil on Marie-Eve Loiselle’s *Building Walls, Constructing Identities: Legal Discourse and the Creation of National Borders* 2026 Conference Keynote Speaker: Johann Neem S-USIH 2026 CFP: Intellectual Historians’ Toolkits: Methods, Theories, Practices 2026 Conference: Madison 2026 USIH Conference Proposal Deadline Extended to May 15 The Ballad World of Anna Gordon: Song and the Making of History Across the Atlantic World Emily Callaci on Sam Klug’s *The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization* Naida García Crespo on Molly Geidel’s *The Development Film in the Americas* Jacob Hiserman on Colin Woodard’s *Nations Apart: How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America* Elesha Coffman on David F. Evans’s *Damned Whiteness: How White Christian Allies Failed the Black Freedom Movement* Christopher B. Bean on Aaron Sheehan-Dean’s *Fighting With the Past: How Seventeenth-Century English History Shaped the American Civil War* The Changing Intellectual Landscape of Texas History, Part I, Some Interpretive Observations from Both Sides of the Pandemic #USIH2026 News: Panelist Meetup Page 2026 Conference FAQ: Exploring the Theme with the Co-Chairs Bob Dylan and Donald Trump, The Heart Connection CFP: USIH-IU Community Scholars Program Andrew Hartman on Caroline Jack’s *Business as Usual: How Sponsored Media Sold American Capitalism in the Twentieth Century* David I. Levine and Budd N. Shenkin on Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash’s *The Presidential Pardon, The Short Clause with a Long, Troubled History* The Fourth Turning, starring Mavis Staples Hearing, Thinking: What Musicology Can Offer Intellectual History: Michael J. Kramer on Brigid Cohen’s *Musical Migration and Imperial New York: Early Cold War Scenes. New Material Histories of Music* and Michael Gallope’s *The Musician as Philosopher: New York’s Vernacular Avant-Garde, 1958–1978* Virginia Olmsted McGraw on David S. Foglesong, Ivan Kurilla, and Victoria I. Zhuravleva’s *Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies: A History of American-Russian Relations* Public Craving for Practicality, History Lessons for Political Campaigns, Part II, Potential Democratic Appeal to Practicalities James L. Greer on Karen Benjamin’s *Good Parents, Better Homes & Great Schools: Selling Segregation Before the New Deal* CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: S-USIH 2026 PRIZES A Category Mistake: Misrecognizing the Function of Black Dialect in the Work of a White Writer Public Craving for Practicality, History Lessons for Political Campaigns, Part I, The Republican Appeal to Toughness Robert Greene II on Seth Rockman’s *Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery* S-USIH at AHA 2027 Front Page Sam Klug: Lippmann’s Clash of Civilizations S-USIH at OAH 2027 Amy Kittelstrom on Nicholas Boggs’s *Baldwin: A Love Story* Audrey Wu Clark on Sarah Lewis’s The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America Nick Witham: Lippmann’s Public Life on the Page Governance Meet Our Bloggers Tom Arnold-Forster: Response to My Critics Kathryn McGarr: Lippmann’s Washington Life Angus Burgin: Lippmann’s Past and Present Jason Shaffer on Andrew Burstein’s *Longing for Connection: Entangled Memories and Emotional Loss in Early America* Patrick Kindig on Jess Shollenberger’s *Ordinary Queerness in American Modernism* Chisomo Kalinga on Neville Hoad’s *Pandemic Genres: Imagining Politics in a Time of AIDS* Naida García-Crespo on Marla A. Ramírez’s Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation Eric Ross on Alex Wellerstein’s *The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age* USIH Blog