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1 month ago | 
smithsonianmag.com | Sara Georgini
Martha S. Jones' new memoir draws on genealogical research and memories shared by relatives
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1 month ago | 
thepreamble.com | David Graham |Sara Georgini |Erin Blakemore |Ronald Dworkin
I know you’re busy, so let’s catch up on some of our latest articles and recommendations. Billionaires probably pay a lower tax rate than you do. Some even pay $0 in income taxes, despite their net worth increasing exponentially each year. So how do they do it? DEI has become a boogeyman in the federal government, often blamed for every ill. The truth is that it’s a smokescreen to justify efforts to undo decades of civil rights progress.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
smithsonianmag.com | Sara Georgini
The third president knew that the whims of nature shaped Americans’ daily lives as farmers and enslavers The Declaration of Independence was off to the press, so Thomas Jefferson spent July 4, 1776, in search of a decent thermometer. By lunchtime, a breeze ruffled the red brick of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall. Rain clouds tumbled in. A southwest wind swung through the streets, setting tavern signs to wheel and squeak, but the skies held. The city’s brutal summer melted into mild.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
msn.com | Sara Georgini
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
smithsonianmag.com | Sara Georgini
A new book by historian William E. Leuchtenburg examines how the first six commanders in chief embodied the revolutionary spirit and set precedents that shaped their successors’ tenures As a young boy in the summer of 1932, William E. Leuchtenburg stayed up late, glued to the live radio broadcast that culminated in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s nomination for president.
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
s-usih.org | Sara Georgini
Greetings, USIH colleagues, old and new! We welcome your proposals for our 2024 conference, to be held November 14-16, 2024, at the Back Bay Sheraton, located in the heart of Boston’s historic neighborhood of Copley Square. Submissions are due on 15 April 2024, and you can find our Call for Papers here. Our theme is “Knowledge and Belief,” and we interpret that broadly.
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
s-usih.org | Sara Georgini
Hello, scholars! We are proud to sponsor several prizes honoring your scholarship in American intellectual history. Please see below for the 2024 awards and note that all submissions are due by 1 March 2024. Should you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]. Thank you. S-USIH 2023 Annual Book AwardThe Society for U. S. Intellectual History (S-USIH) is pleased to open the call for submissions for its Annual Book Award for the best book in U.S. intellectual history.
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Jul 31, 2023 | 
s-usih.org | Sara Georgini
The Society for U.S. Intellectual History and Modern Intellectual History are excited to announce the inaugural USIH-MIH Early Career Workshop. This one-day, in-person workshop will take place in Boston on Wednesday, November 13, 2024, in conjunction with the 2024 USIH Conference. Participants in the workshop are also eligible to participate in the main conference proceedings, and they will receive a waiver of their conference fee.
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Jun 27, 2023 | 
s-usih.org | Sara Georgini
Hats off to all the wonderful new talent in U.S. intellectual history! We had an impressive slate of contenders for our reimagined Henry F. May Fund awards this year. So. Many. Great. Projects. Our deepest thanks to all the scholars who applied, and we encourage you to do so again when the next cycle opens in spring 2024. Here’s a sneak preview of our May Fund fellows’ scholarship-in-progress.
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Jun 7, 2023 | 
s-usih.org | Sara Georgini
We are delighted to announce that the annual Leo P. Ribuffo Dissertation Prize has been awarded to Erik Baker (Harvard University), for “Entrepreneurial: Management Expertise & the Reinvention of the American Work Ethic.”The Society for U.S. Intellectual History established the Leo P. Ribuffo Prize for Best Dissertation in U.S. Intellectual History in 2019. Ribuffo, a revered scholar and exemplary mentor, reshaped the field during his long and illustrious career at George Washington University.
