Today’s post comes courtesy of Claire Rydell Arcenas. Claire is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at Stanford University, and a 2015-2016 Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow in the Stanford Humanities Center. This post arises in her capacity as a member of the 2016 S-USIH Conference Committee. ——————————————————— Does Perry Miller Matter More Than Ever? Within mere minutes of beginning graduate school (or so it felt then), I encountered Perry Miller for the first time. I spent hours reading and rereading “Errand into the Wilderness.” For days, nearly everywhere I went, I carried with me The New England Mind, Read more