intellectual history

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• SOURCE: The American Prospect
  5/18/2020
  

  Keynes and the Good Life

  by Jeffrey Sachs

  Keynes did not give us a checklist of dos and don’ts other than general ones: Don’t waste human talents and physical resources through wanton unemployment, avoidable wars, or breakdowns of social and trade relations.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  5/3/2020
  

  The 1918 Flu Pandemic Killed Millions. So Why Does Its Cultural Memory Feel So Faint?

  by Rebecca Onion

  According to scholar Elizabeth Outka, the tragedy haunts modernist literature between the lines.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/21/2020
  

  Andrew Cuomo Has Revived Franklin Roosevelt’s Language of Leadership

  by Christopher M. Florio

  Recognizing our interdependence is the key to surviving the covid-19 pandemic

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• SOURCE: Society for U.S. Intellectual History
  3/30/2020
  

  Writing an Intellectual History of the President’s Cabinet

  by Lindsay M. Chervinsky

  Historian Lindsay M. Chervinsky discusses the methodology behind her latest book on George Washington's cabinet.

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• SOURCE: Society for U.S. Intellectual History Blog
  2/9/20
  

  Richard Cándida Smith Reviews *Duress: Imperial Durabilities In Our Times*

  by Richard Cándida Smith

  A review of Ann Laura Stoler's Duress: Imperial Durabilities In Our Times.

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• SOURCE: Common Dreams
  1/26/20
  

  Ten Years After Howard Zinn’s Death — Lessons from the People’s Historian

  by Bill Bigelow 

  Now is an especially good time to remember some of Howard Zinn’s wisdom.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  1/26/20
  

  Missing Zinn

  by Cornel West an Mordecai Lyon

  On the tenth anniversary of radical historian Howard Zinn’s death, Cornel West opens up about their friendship and what Zinn would have made of the decade—including whether he would have voted for Bernie.

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• 12/22/19
  

  Is Donald Trump a Conservative?

  by Jonathan Montano

  Does Trump fit the mold defined by historians on conservatism? Does his brand of populism even fit the classical ideology of conservative populist thought?

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  10/18/19
  

  When James Baldwin Squared Off Against William F. Buckley Jr.

  Nicholas Buccola's book, "The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America" examines the debates between Baldwin and Buckley.  The book is available now.  

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• SOURCE: Society for US Intellectual History
  11/7/2019
  

  An Intellectual Conversion Narrative

  by Andrew Klumpp

  Klumpp reflects on USIH, what it means to be an intellectual historian and the USIH community

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  September 15, 2019
  

  William F. Buckley Jr. vs. James Baldwin: A racial showdown on the American dream

  Hundreds of thousands of people have watched the riveting 1965 debate between the two writers — one white, the other black — on YouTube.  

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  Accessed 2/12/19
  

  Eugene V. Debs and the Endurance of Socialism

  by Jill Lepore

  Half man, half myth, Debs turned a radical creed into a deeply American one.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  1/14/19
  

  Barr memo suggests: To understand the Trump administration, read Hobbes

  by Eric Terzuolo

  To the extent that there is a Trump administration philosophy of the state, the Kavanaugh article and Barr memo are foundational documents.

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• 10-17-15
  

  Intellectual history conference in DC debates what it means to be an intellectual

  by HNN Editor

  Speakers include: Corey Robin (CUNY), Leo Ribuffo (GW), Claire Potter (New School), David Ferriero (Archivist of the United States), and Russell Jacoby (Author of The Last Intellectuals).

• SOURCE: S-USIH Blog
  5-28-13
  

  Ben Alpers: A Memorial Day Thought on David M. Kennedy

  Benjamin Alpers received his PhD in history from Princeton University in 1994. He joined the faculty of the Honors College at the University of Oklahoma in 1998.In today’s New York Times, retired Army Lieutenant General and former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry and the historian David Kennedy published an op-ed entitled “Americans and Their Military, Drifting Apart.” Eikenberry and Kennedy identify a very real problem: the increasing social distance between our increasingly high-tech, all-volunteer military and the rest of American society.   Today’s military, they argue, presents “a disurbingly novel spectacle”: