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Journal of the Early Republic

Out Now! JER Forum: Expanding the Boundaries of Intellectual History in the Early Republic

Intellectual history is featured in this thoughtful roundtable now out in the Journal of the Early Republic, VOLUME 43, NUMBER 4 (WINTER 2023). The S-USIH blog welcomes additional responses to the forum. Email Katherine Jewell ([email protected]) with proposed responses.  Amy Kittelstrom introduces the forum, a series five articles. Kittelstrom explains “how current scholarship diverges from or corrects the conventional narrative that has centered elite Anglo-Protestant intellectuals from the beginning of the discipline until recently.” New currents in the field have redefined core disciplinary terms and concepts, leaving behind “American exceptionalism, a progressive view of American history, the notion of a Read more