S-USIH conference featured on NY Times blog

Last week's conference of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History was covered in an article by Jennifer Schuessler in the ArtsBeat blog on the website of the New York Times. The very favorable piece highlights several of the conference's specific papers and panels, including Pauline Maier's keynote address. More broadly, it positions the resurgence in American intellectual history represented by S-USIH as one that is both respectful of previous conceptions of the subject, and responsive to the criticisms and revisions to it that have characterized recent decades. "Young intellectual historians, scholars at the conference were quick to emphasize, have fully absorbed the lessons of the profession’s increased attention to questions of race, class and gender, without losing hold of the premise that ideas matter, even in a culture that still considers 'intellectual' a term of abuse."