The overall strength of the edited collection, American Labyrinth, comes in the fact that many of its essays seek to answer one of three questions. One: Who qualifies, in our historical scholarship, as an intellectual? Two: What constitutes intellectual history today? And, finally, three: Why do the previous two questions matter? American Labyrinth answers all three questions by showing how the field of intellectual history has grown incredibly diverse—in research methodology, topics researched, and practitioners within the field itself. Read more