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OAH panel on the state of U.S. intellectual history

The OAH annual meeting will be in New York from March 28-31. I will be chairing a roundtable there that might be of interest to our readers. Called “The Future of U.S. Intellectual History: Challenges and Possibilities,” it will convene at the unenviable Saturday 8:00 a.m. slot. Participants include myself and Stephanie Evans (University of Florida) as moderators, along with commentators Walter Hoelbling (University of Graz, Austria), Anne Kornhauser (Columbia) and Jackson Lears (Rutgers). I wanted not only to alert any interested readers to our panel, but also to solicit input. Are there any aspects of U.S. intellectual history that Read more