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The Book Poverty Rebels: Black and Brown Protest in Post-Civil Rights America The Author(s) Casey D. Nichols Casey D. Nichols’ Poverty Rebels: Black and Brown Protest in Post-Civil… Source link
The Book Modernism’s Inhuman Worlds The Author(s) Rasheed Tazudeen Reviewing Rasheed Tazudeen’s Modernism’s Inhuman Worlds for the Society for U.S. Intellectual History is a strange task, for, while the book itself is certainly an example of U.S. thought, it draws its methods and objects of analysis from other intellectual traditions. Not only is the body […]
The Book Struggle for the City: Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement The Author(s) Derek G. Handley Derek G. Handley’s Struggle for the City: Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement reframes the story of urban renewal and its effects on the Black communities in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; St. Paul, Minnesota; and Milwaukee, […]
The Book Situation Critical: Critique, Theory, and Early American Studies The Author(s) Max Cavitch and Brian Connolly Is there a field of literary studies in which literary scholars focus on texts that are so frequently distant from what the layperson would recognize as “literature” as in the study of early America? Even decades after Renaissance […]
Greetings, historians! S-USIH is proud to continue to host 1-2 sessions at the Organization of American Historians’ next annual meeting, to be held in Philadelphia from April 16-19, 2026. All active S-USIH members are encouraged to propose a panel or roundtable for #OAH2026. The OAH states: “Although we encourage presentations that address the 250th anniversary of the United […]
As we look ahead to the S-USIH annual meeting this November, one might ask what makes the host city an appropriate, interesting, even extraordinary site for such a gathering. The City of Detroit has obvious historical importance—as a final terminus on the Underground Railroad of the 19th century, for example; as the cradle of Henry […]
The Book Our Nazi: an American suburb’s encounter with evil The Author(s) Michael Soffer In 1981, the US Office of Special Investigations (OSI) revealed that Reinhold Kulle, then a custodian at the high school in Oak Park, Illinois, had been a member of the SS and a guard at the Gross Rosen concentration camp. Having […]
We’re delighted to announce that we will award up to 2 Henry F. May Fund research fellowships to graduate students to use this summer, in the amount of $500 each. To apply, please send your C.V., along with a brief description of your research topic and how it relates to U.S. intellectual history, and your planned use of […]
(Detroit Institute of Arts) In 1933, as the Depression dragged on and fascism continued its rise, the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) unveiled its newly decorated Garden Court. In that grand Roman Baroque space—all marble floors and elaborate doorways—the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera had painted the series of frescos known as the Detroit Industry Murals. […]
The Book Family Matters: Queer Households and the Half-Century Struggle for Legal Recognition The Author(s) Marie-Amélie George The landscape for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LBGT) rights has changed dramatically in the latter half of the twentieth century. In the early 1960s, LGBT individuals were criminalized and maligned across the United States as mentally-ill habitual […]