I don’t consider myself to be an intellectual historian. Probably some of you reading this would not identify yourselves as such, either. That’s in part because I (and maybe you) have long held a very narrow definition of what, exactly, intellectual history is. But when you browse through the USIH blog or recent USIH Conference programs, it becomes very clear that the field is in fact capacious, that intellectual history can incorporate far more source materials, topics, and methodologies than you might first assume. Yet intellectual historians, like the majority of those in the broader history discipline, continue to rely Read more