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Society for US Intellectual History Blog

29.07.2025

DJ Polite on Michael K. Brown’s *Unjust Restitution: A Century of Black Struggle for Equality* | Society for US Intellectual History

The United States public has a strong adherence to the value of “equality of opportunity” as a salve to various iterations of inequality. But as Michael K. Brown demonstrates in Unjust Restitution, what exactly entails “equality of opportunity” is not as plain, or universally agreed upon. Brown asks the question, when Americans have proclaimed a

Society for US Intellectual History Blog

02.08.2025

Penn Shao, *A Chinese observer traces a journey from Puritan orthodoxy to liberal religion in America’s heartland* | Society for US Intellectual History

On Christmas Eve 2024, shortly after moving back to the Boston area, my family and four, including my 10-year-old and 5-year-old boys decided to attend a local church service. Not out of religious conviction — I was born and raised in mainland China, where faith and skepticism coexist in uneasy tension — but out of

Society for US Intellectual History Blog

04.08.2025

“On the Queerness of Natural History, Then and Now”: Nikita Shepard on Josh L. Davis’s *A Little Queer Natural History* | Society for US Intellectual History

The idea that natural history is more than a little queer—and that its queerness might shed light on how to better understand sexual and gender diversity among our fellow humans—describes a longstanding current within LGBTQ intellectual history. One of its earliest widely circulated manifestations appears in French author Andre Gide’s Corydon, first published in its

Society for US Intellectual History Blog

11.08.2025

Jonathan Sperber on Andrew Hartman’s *Karl Marx in America* | Society for US Intellectual History

When thinking of Marxism as a political, socioeconomic, or philosophical doctrine, the United States is not the first country that comes to mind. Andrew Hartman’s new book challenges that impression, detailing the impact of Karl Marx’s ideas in the US, from the Civil War to the present. As befits the study of a thinker whose

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