Society for US Intellectual History
Congratulations to Michael Kramer for being a Finalist for the Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing from the Washington Monthly for his review, “Social Criticism and Intellectual History” about books by Shatz and Scialabba!
Gabriel Bloomfield on Beans Velocci’s *Sex Isn’t Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary*
The Changing Intellectual Landscape of Texas History, Part II, Are We Moving toward a Post-Christian Age?
Whitney McIntosh on Lars Cornelissen’s *Neoliberalism and Race*
Anja Keil on Marie-Eve Loiselle’s *Building Walls, Constructing Identities: Legal Discourse and the Creation of National Borders*
Andrew Scull on Kylie Smith’s *Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South*
2026 Conference Keynote Speaker: Johann Neem
A.J. Bauer on David Austin Walsh’s *Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right*
2026 USIH Conference Proposal Deadline Extended to May 15
Naida García Crespo on Molly Geidel’s *The Development Film in the Americas*
The Ballad World of Anna Gordon: Song and the Making of History Across the Atlantic World
Jacob Hiserman on Colin Woodard’s *Nations Apart: How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America*
Elesha Coffman on David F. Evans’s *Damned Whiteness: How White Christian Allies Failed the Black Freedom Movement*
The Changing Intellectual Landscape of Texas History, Part I, Some Interpretive Observations from Both Sides of the Pandemic
Christopher B. Bean on Aaron Sheehan-Dean’s *Fighting With the Past: How Seventeenth-Century English History Shaped the American Civil War*
2026 Conference FAQ: Exploring the Theme with the Co-Chairs
Emily Callaci on Sam Klug’s *The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization*
#USIH2026 News: Panelist Meetup Page
Andrew Hartman on Caroline Jack’s *Business as Usual: How Sponsored Media Sold American Capitalism in the Twentieth Century*
Bob Dylan and Donald Trump, The Heart Connection
A Category Mistake: Misrecognizing the Function of Black Dialect in the Work of a White Writer
David I. Levine and Budd N. Shenkin on Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash’s *The Presidential Pardon, The Short Clause with a Long, Troubled History*
The Fourth Turning, starring Mavis Staples
Virginia Olmsted McGraw on David S. Foglesong, Ivan Kurilla, and Victoria I. Zhuravleva’s *Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies: A History of American-Russian Relations*
James L. Greer on Karen Benjamin’s *Good Parents, Better Homes & Great Schools: Selling Segregation Before the New Deal*
S-USIH at OAH 2027
S-USIH 2026 CFP: Intellectual Historians’ Toolkits: Methods, Theories, Practices
Public Craving for Practicality, History Lessons for Political Campaigns, Part II, Potential Democratic Appeal to Practicalities
Kimberly F. Monroe on Mali D. Collins’s *Scrap Theory: Reproductive Injustice in the Black Feminist Imagination*
Christopher B. Bean on Fay A. Yarbrough’s *Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country*
Vyta Pivo on Aaron Cayer’s *Incorporating Architects: How American Architecture Became a Practice of Empire*
CFP: USIH-IU Community Scholars Program
Andrew Hartman on Erik Baker’s *Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America*
Priscila Dorella on A. K. Sandoval-Strausz’s *Metropolitan Latinidad: Transforming American Urban History*
Catharine Coleborne on Rachel Plotnick’s *Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing*
Marlén Ríos-Hernández on Robert Fitzgerald’s Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan: The Lyrical Lashing of an American Presidency
Member spotlight: Sanjana Rajagopal
Jacob Hiserman on *David S. Brown, Beyond the Frontier: The Midwestern Voice in American Historical Writing*
SUSIH 2025: Help! How Do I Navigate Detroit?
SUSIH 2025: Previewing the “Arab American Intellectual History” Opening Plenary
SUSIH 2025: Previewing the “American Revolutionaries: James and Grace Lee Boggs and Their Circles in Detroit” Panel
Dan DiPiero, *Gender, Genre, and the Shifting Meaning of Indie Rock*
Richard Cándida Smith on Julia Alekseyeva’s *Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s*
Rick Townsend, *A Visit to the Rhea County Courthouse a Century after Scopes* (Part II)
Daniel S. Holt on Gerald Gamm and Steven S. Smith’s *Steering the Senate: The Emergence of Party Organization and Leadership, 1789–2024 *
SUSIH 2025: Previewing the “Censorship and Intellectual Unfreedom in Modern America” Plenary
David Lebow on Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath *The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy*
Robert Greene II on Lacy Ford’s *Understanding the American South: Slavery, Race, Identity, and the American Century*
Announcement: S-USIH Annual Business Meeting
Member spotlight: Brandon James Render
Kit Candlin on Zeff Eleff *The Greatest of All Time: A History of an American Obsession*
Miles Yu on Paul W. Schroeder’s *America’s Fatal Leap, 1991–2016*
Fraser Livingston on Joshua Nygren’s *The State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920*
Naida García-Crespo on Beatrix Hoffman’s *Borders of Care: Immigrants, Migrants, and the Fight for Healthcare in the United States*
Member spotlight: Carlye Mahler
Jason Shaffer on Scott Gac’s *Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America*
Rick Townsend, *A Visit to the Rhea County Courthouse a Century after Scopes* (Part I)
Robin Marie Averbeck on Kevin Schultz’s *Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals)*