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2024-S-USIH Conference

In Memory of Dorothy, by Howard Brick

In Memory of Dorothy Howard Brick Two years ago, for the S-USIH meeting (scheduled for this hotel, the first fully “live” post-pandemic conference for this organization), a group of us had planned a session in Dorothy’s honor—featuring Jim Kloppenberg, Kim Phillips-Fein, Jefferson Cowie, and Dan Geary (what a line-up!!) and intended to comment on and discuss Dorothy’s two blockbuster essays in Modern Intellectual History on “Whatever Happened to the Social in American Social Thought?” (December 2021 and March 2022).  Unfortunately, we had to cancel the meeting, after Dorothy emailed me around Labor Day, reporting that she had suffered a very Read more