Current members of the S-USIH have already received an email about the Society’s newly-established ad hoc committee on MOOCs and the teaching of U.S. intellectual history in colleges and universities.  As the appointed chair of this new committee, I would like to take this opportunity to inform our blog’s readers of the decision, explain what the committee will be doing, and issue a call for those interested in either serving on the committee or assisting the committee in its work, to contact me. Below is the announcement emailed to the S-USIH membership on behalf of our outgoing President, Paul Murphy: Read more