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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: S-USIH 2025 PRIZES | Society for US Intellectual History Hello, scholars! We are proud to sponsor several prizes honoring your scholarship in U.S. intellectual history. Please see below for the 2025 awards and note that all submissions are due by 1 March 20...

Please remember to apply for the USIH Prizes this year! Deadlines have been extended to APRIL 1: s-usih.org/2024/12/call...

The Deed of Mercy | Society for US Intellectual History As barnyard thefts went, it was a pretty bad one: a fat turkey and fourteen chickens gone, just as the winter of 1828 froze up Washington waterways and holiday feasts beckoned. The culprits behind the...

From the @susih.bsky.social #archives: I wrote about how early U.S. presidents like JQA used the pardon power, a fascinating project that I’d like to resume soon… s-usih.org/2019/04/the-... #USIH 🗃️

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: S-USIH 2025 PRIZES | Society for US Intellectual History Hello, scholars! We are proud to sponsor several prizes honoring your scholarship in U.S. intellectual history. Please see below for the 2025 awards and note that all submissions are due by 1 March 20...

Please check out our Call for Submissions for 2025 S-USIH Prizes! More here:

s-usih.org/2024/12/call...

Please continue to use the #USIH2024 hashtag as we enjoy this year's conference!

On Saturday, I will be discussing my research on 1820s inter-oceanic canal dreams at an exciting plenary #usih2024 panel with @sarageorgini.bsky.social, @econroykrutz.bsky.social, Marlene Daut, & Daniel Immerwahr. Bonus: some of my grad and undergrad students will be there! Teaching+Scholarship ftw.

Me, Heath Carter, Lloyd Barba, Gale Kennedy, and Heather Curtis

Sunrise in Boston

Kicked off #USIH2024 last night with a plenary panel on “religious lives,” in which the genius scholars Heath Carter, Lloyd Barba, @galekenny.bsky.social, and @heatherdcurtis.bsky.social spoke about their current biographical projects. And now the sun is rising on the first full day of panels!

John Quincy Adams, John Adams, and Ben Franklin bobble heads on a bookshelf holding S-USIH conference name tags

🦉🗃️We welcome all to our @susih.bsky.social annual meeting this week in #Boston! Special thanks to #USIH2024 co-chairs extraordinaire @benjaminepark.bsky.social @econroykrutz.bsky.social #USIH program & info: s-usih.org/conference/2...

The very cool cover of Max Felker-Kantor’s book “Dare to Say No: Policing and the War on Drifs in Schools.” The cover looks like a school locker, with Max’s name on a peel-and-stick name tag

Remember DARE? Yes, it was about turning us into baby-narcs, but it was also a big police PR campaign. @mfkantor.bsky.social has written an amazing book on the program, which we’re discussing today at #USIH2024! bookshop.org/p/books/dare...

This will be such a great plenary panel tomorrow! (And I’m dreading whether Jess is gonna bring up my ancestor who has an, um, unsavory history connected to these canal dreams.)

Silence in Heaven After this apocalyptic election, I don't want to hear any more pundits prattle. Give me some old-school Augustinian pessimism, and out of that I will fashion hope.

I warned you all. I am blogging again:
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USIH Conference 2024 Registration Annual Conference for the Society of U.S. Intellectual History, Thursday, November 14–Saturday, November 16, 2024

And also registration for #USIH2024 can be found here: www.eventbrite.com/e/usih-confe...

Here's a link to our fantastic program for #USIH2024 in Boston, Massachusetts: s-usih.org/wp-content/u...

@sarageorgini.bsky.social @benjaminepark.bsky.social @econroykrutz.bsky.social

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Thank you kindly.

USIH Conference 2024 Registration Annual Conference for the Society of U.S. Intellectual History, Thursday, November 14–Saturday, November 16, 2024

And also registration for #USIH2024 can be found here: www.eventbrite.com/e/usih-confe...

Here's a link to our fantastic program for #USIH2024 in Boston, Massachusetts: s-usih.org/wp-content/u...

@sarageorgini.bsky.social @benjaminepark.bsky.social @econroykrutz.bsky.social

This is next week! I’m stoked to see everyone in Boston.

2024 Conference-Boston | Society for US Intellectual History Click the link to download the final program for the 2024 Boston Conference Registration for the conference is now open. You can register at this link. Please note there are different rates for societ...

Don't forget to check out the one-stop shop for all #USIH Conference needs for November 2024 here: s-usih.org/conference/2...

(including the program and the registration link!)

ICYMI, here's the program for the S-USIH conference! And go ahead and register as soon as you can!

David Weinfeld: A Century of Cultural Pluralism: How an Unlikely American Friendship Should Inspire Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | Society for US Intellectual History As the 2024 presidential election approaches, some of the largest and most controversial issues in American politics concern legal and illegal immigration, refugee policy, and the security of the coun...

Over at the blog, David Weinfeld has a fascinating piece about political rhetoric and pluralism. s-usih.org/2024/08/davi...

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2024 Conference-Boston | Society for US Intellectual History View the 2024 S-USIH Conference Program here

Hello everyone,

The program for the 2024 Conference in Boston, Massachusetts is now LIVE! Check it out here: s-usih.org/conference/2...

Announcement: 2024 John Dewey Prize | Society for US Intellectual History We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 John Dewey Prize: Jonathan Strassfeld, Inventing Philosophy's Other: Phenomenology in America (University of Chicago Press, 2022). The John Dewey Pr...

And we're very pleased to announce that this year's John Dewey Prize goes to Jonathan Strassfeld: s-usih.org/2024/08/anno...

Announcement: 2024 Dorothy Ross Prize | Society for US Intellectual History We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2024 Dorothy Ross Prize for the best article in U.S. intellectual history: Tom Arnold-Forster, “Walter Lippmann and Public Opinion,” American Journalism 40...

Tom Arnold-Forster won the 2024 Dorothy Ross Prize:

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Announcement: 2024 Leo P. Ribuffo Dissertation Prize | Society for US Intellectual History We are thrilled to announce that the annual Leo P. Ribuffo Dissertation Prize has been awarded to Jacob Anbinder, “Cities of Amber: Antigrowth Politics and the Making of Modern Liberalism." The Societ...

Our latest Leo P. Ribuffo Dissertation Prize goes to Jacob Anbinder: s-usih.org/2024/07/anno...

Announcement: MIH-USIH Early Career Workshop | Society for US Intellectual History We are delighted to welcome four scholars to our inaugural Modern Intellectual History-USIH Early Career Workshop. It's organized around three themes: knowledge and belief, archives and intellectual h...

Working alongside our colleagues at the Modern Intellectual History journal, we are pleased to announce our first cohort for the Early Career Workshop:

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Announcement: S-USIH 2024 Annual Book Prize | Society for US Intellectual History We are honored to announce that the 2024 S-USIH Annual Book Prize has been awarded to Leslie Butler, Consistent Democracy: The "Woman Question" and Self-Government in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxfor...

And here's the S-USIH Book Prize winner:

s-usih.org/2024/07/anno...

The Dearbought Inheritance | Society for US Intellectual History The Fourth of July is, by happy circumstance, generally a good day for historical editors. Over barbecues and across beaches, from sea to shining sea, folks seem glad to talk about founding-era docume...

🗽From the @susih.bsky.social archives, I wrote about the declarations before the Declaration 🗃️ #skystorians #4thofJuly s-usih.org/2016/07/the-...

And this week at S-USIH will be a week full of fantastic announcements! Stay tuned.