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17.02.2025

Francesco Landolfi on Reiko Hillyer’s *A Wall Is Just a Wall: The Permeability of the Prison in the Twentieth-Century United States* | Society for US Intellectual History

In the history of the modern Western prison system, the treatment of the prison population can inevitably be considered as one of many factors in assessing the level of social status that a civilized society has managed to achieve both beyond and behind prison walls. Prisons, in fact, are never a system completely detached from

Society for US Intellectual History Blog

19.02.2025

Dorothy Ross by Francois Furstenberg | Society for US Intellectual History

Dorothy Ross I agreed to address two topics this afternoon: Dorothy’s mentorship and her scholarly politics. Inevitably, perhaps, given recent events, my comments have tilted more toward the political. But before I go there, let me say a few words about her mentorship. The first thing to note about Dorothy’s advising is her seriousness. She

Society for US Intellectual History Blog

20.02.2025

The Provocations of Dorothy Ross: An Appreciation, by Daniel H. Borus | Society for US Intellectual History

Although I have been identified as a “Dorothy Ross student,” she was not my dissertation adviser. Indeed I never took a class with her. She was my second reader. The second reader is a strange institution and the commitment of second readers to the project vary from those who just want to sign off and

Society for US Intellectual History Blog

21.02.2025

In Memory of Dorothy, by Howard Brick | Society for US Intellectual History

In Memory of Dorothy Howard Brick Two years ago, for the S-USIH meeting (scheduled for this hotel, the first fully “live” post-pandemic conference for this organization), a group of us had planned a session in Dorothy’s honor—featuring Jim Kloppenberg, Kim Phillips-Fein, Jefferson Cowie, and Dan Geary (what a line-up!!) and intended to comment on and

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