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Society for US Intellectual History Blog

08.11.2023

Richardson and Woodard: It tracks | Society for US Intellectual History

In Heather Cox Richardson's new book, Democracy Awakening, US history turns on conflicting interpretations of the Declaration of Independence and its claim that "all men are created equal." One interpretation is broad and expansive, the other narrow and strained. The broad one figures the word "men" generically to include both men and women. It understands

Society for US Intellectual History Blog

13.11.2023

Elesha Coffman on John Corrigan, Melani McAlister, and Axel R. Schäfer’s *Global Faith, Worldly Power: Evangelical Internationalism and U.S. Empire* | Society for US Intellectual History

At the border of my city and its white-flight suburbs stands an Assemblies of God church. As a poll worker, I know the church primarily as an early-voting site with a reputation for being very busy, very Republican, and prone to partisan scuffles in the parking lot. The church staff is white, aside from a

Society for US Intellectual History Blog

20.11.2023

Nicolyn Woodcock on Jennifer Lin LeMesurier’s *Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption* | Society for US Intellectual History

In Inscrutable Eating, Jennifer Lin LeMesurier explores how we learn gut orientations that shape our reactions and our interactions with certain communities via food practices in the United States. As she notes, there are “common ways of discussing consumption [which] orient our ways of speaking and eating away from certain practices and therefore toward or

Society for US Intellectual History Blog

27.11.2023

Joseph Winters on Jesse McCarthy’s *Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays* | Society for US Intellectual History

The title of a book tells the reader a lot as they anticipate sifting and gliding through the arguments, reflections, and style(s) of writing. In an age where there has been a renewed discussion about “the possibility of reparations as payment for racial injustice in the United States” (225), Jesse McCarthy’s sampling of Gil Scott

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