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Society for US Intellectual History Blog

07.10.2024

Kollin Fields on Daniel Wickberg’s *Thinking the Modern: A History of American Thought, 1860-2000* | Society for US Intellectual History

Carl Becker told his fellow historians in 1931 that we are not dissimilar from “bards and story-tellers and minstrels, of soothsayers and priests, to whom in successive ages has been entrusted the keeping of the useful myths.”[1] Historians do indeed tell stories, and as Becker reminded his audience, whether story or myth, narratives often prevail

Society for US Intellectual History Blog

14.10.2024

David S. Koffman on Rebecca Clarren’s *The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance* | Society for US Intellectual History

Rebecca Clarren’s The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance is perhaps the single best articulation of a puzzle so many Americans and Canadians are now trying to solve: how do I come to terms with the broadly horrifying repercussions on Indigenous peoples of my ancestors’ decisions to move and thrive here

Society for US Intellectual History Blog

21.10.2024

“Food Power Politics: The Weaponization Of Food In The Fight For Survival In The Delta”: Nia Raquelle Smith on Bobby Smith II’s *Food Power Politics: The Food History of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement* | Society for US Intellectual History

In his debut book, Food Power Politics: The Food History of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, Bobby Smith II vividly recounts the story of the slow but continued and covert weaponization of food. This historical narrative, deeply rooted in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, serves as a powerful connection to the past, shedding light on

Society for US Intellectual History Blog

22.10.2024

Debating to Persuade, a Challenge for Democrats: The William James Guide to Modern Politics | Society for US Intellectual History

These essays in the form of letters to the powerful and struggling suggest that understanding about contrasting views emerging from historical and intellectual contexts can gain votes for those politicians ready to pause in the fighting long enough to listen. The first open letter, “Democrats in Power to Protesters in Streets: Mutual Prods to Peace,”

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