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Senin, 30 April 2012

Welcome, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn...and Other Changes!

We are delighted to announce the latest addition to the team here at the U.S. Intellectual History Blog: Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, who will be joining us as our regular Sunday blogger. Elisabeth is Professor of History at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, and is the author of, among other works, Race Experts: How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution and Black Neighbors: Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945. She also blogs at Longing for the Real.

Elisabeth is an old friend of S-USIH (to the extent that scholarly societies less than a year old can have old friends). She participated as a panel commentator at our 2009 Conference. At the 2010 Conference, she was part of a plenary panel entitled "Intellectual History For What?" And at last year's S-USIH Conference, she presented a brown-bag talk on the state of intellectual history. It was my honor and pleasure to be at the last two of these presentations and was struck, on both occasions, by Elisabeth's commitment to both intellectual seriousness and intellectual community, challenging us to be better scholars and better friends. I like to think that these are values that we strive for at this blog. I know that Elisabeth will help us achieve both.

More USIH Blog announcements after the fold...

Some perceptive readers may have noticed that a disclaimer recently showed up in our right margin:

The Society for U.S. Intellectual History is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization that has applied to the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status. The opinions expressed on the blog are strictly those of the individual writers and do not represent those of the Society or of the writers' employers.

As a new professional association, S-USIH is applying for 501(c)(3) non-profit status. And one of the restrictions placed on 501(c)(3)s is that they are "absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office." Since this blog is affiliated with S-USIH, we need to be sure to steer clear of violating this regulation. This disclaimer is part of that effort: it reiterates that none of the bloggers at USIH speak for the Society. Additionally, each of our regular bloggers have made a commitment to refrain from intervening in favor or against any current candidate for elective public office in their future posts on this blog.

Our right margin features another new gadget: once again, this blog will be participating in the For the Love of Film film preservation blogathon. This year's blogathon will take place from May 13 to 18 and will focus on Alfred Hitchcock. Funds raised by donations during the blogathon will benefit the National Film Preservation Foundation's goal of recording a score to Alfred Hitchcock's silent The White Shadow (1923) and streaming the restored film on their website. This year's blogathon will be co-hosted by Self-Styled Siren, Ferdy on Films, and This Island Rod.

Kamis, 13 Oktober 2011

Special USIH-Oriented Issue of The Journal of Southern Religion

Oakland University's Luke Harlow, who is a co-editor of the Journal of Southern Religion with Louisiana State University's Mike Pasquier (also of the Religion in American History blog), want USIH readers to be aware of JSR's newest issue.

Why? It includes a review forum on Daniel Williams's God's Own Party. The forum includes pieces by Randall Balmer, Darren Dochuk, J. Russell Hawkins, and Mark Silk, and a response by Williams.

Harlow pointed out that this issue contains other features of potential interest to USIH folks:

-A roundtable on class in early twentieth-century southern religion, with contributions and responses from Ken Fones-Wolf (West Virginia University), Richard Callahan, Jr. (University of Missouri-Columbia), Jarod Roll (University of Sussex), Alison Collis Greene (Mississippi State University), and John Hayes (Augusta State University).

-An article by Chad Seales (University of Texas-Austin) on baptisteries and modernity.

-An author's reflection on _Evangelizing the South_ by Monica Najar (Lehigh University).

New Journal Announcement: American Political Thought (APT)

[FYI: This has made the H-Net rounds, but I think it needs an underscore for readers of this site. It is clearly a publication meant to be friendly to USIH practitioners. Bolds, hyperlinks, and italics are mine- TL]
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New Journal from the University of Chicago Press: American Political Thought: A Journal of Ideas, Institutions, and Culture

The University of Chicago Press, the University of Notre Dame's Program in Constitutional Studies, and the Jack Miller Center are pleased to announce the launch of the only peer-reviewed academic journal exclusively devoted to the study of American political thought.

American Political Thought: A Journal of Ideas, Institutions, and Culture is now accepting submissions and will publish its inaugural issue in spring 2012. For subscription information and complete submission guidelines, go the journal's homepage.

The new journal will feature research by political scientists, historians, literary scholars, economists, and philosophers who study the texts, authors, and ideas at the foundation of the American political tradition. Research will explore key political concepts such as democracy, constitutionalism, equality, liberty, citizenship, political identity, and the role of the state.

Professor Michael Zuckert, director of Notre Dame's Program in Constitutional Studies, will serve as the journal's first editor.

"Our goal is to create the essential and defining journal for the field," Dr. Zuckert said. "It will be a forum for analysis as well as critique of American political thinking from multiple disciplines and perspectives."

"The new journal will be a natural complement to the new related group within the American Political Science Association dedicated to American political thought," said Dr. Rafael Major, director of faculty development at the Jack Miller Center, a national nonprofit, nonpartisan education foundation. "Both new endeavors have already generated a strong response from both junior and senior scholars seeking an outlet for their research."

"We're very pleased to add American Political Thought to our roster," said Everett Conner, manager of the University of Chicago Press Journals Division. "It will not only be a fine complement to our history and law titles, but also open new ground for the Press in serving scholars of American politics."

APT will publish twice a year in print and online, and will include book reviews along with major articles accepted through a double blind peer-review process.

The journal is now accepting submissions on all areas of relevance including:

*Description, justification, and criticism of the institutions of constitutional democracy in the United States.
*The plurality of first principles called upon to ground these institutions and to orient political action.
*The mentality of the American people, either taken as a whole or as members of various subcultures within the polity.
*Political literature, which has sought to bring political principles to full, imaginative life.
*The ideas around which have been built the platforms of the various political parties in American political history and around which coalesce partisan coalitions today.
*The character of the United States as it presents itself on the world stage and thus in the eyes of those who live abroad.

To submit a manuscript for consideration, please send an electronic file (formatted in Microsoft Word) via the American Political Thought online submission system here. For more information on the submission process, please visit here.

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And here's the editorial staff---notice the names who are both known among USIH folks and are friendly to related topics:

EDITORIAL BOARD

Editor: Michael Zuckert
Managing Editor: S. Adam Seagrave
Editorial Board

W.B. Allen, Michigan State University
Joyce Appleby, University of California, Los Angeles
Benjamin Barber, Rutgers University
Mark Bauerlein, Emory University
Paul Cantor, University of Virginia
James Ceaser, University of Virginia
Jonathan Clark, University of Kansas
Patrick Deneen, Georgetown University
Max Edling, Uppsala Universitet
Jean Elshtain, University of Chicago
Robert Ferguson, Columbia University
Robert P. George, Princeton University
Daniel Howe, University of California, Los Angeles
Harvey Klehr, Emory University
Robert Koons, University of Texas
Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University
Wilfred McClay, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Walter McDougall, University of Pennsylvania
Pauline Maier, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lucas Morel, Washington and Lee University
Peter Onuf, University of Virginia
Karen Orren, University of California, Los Angeles
Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania
Steven Smith, Notre Dame University
Eric Sundquist, University of California, Los Angeles
Keith Whittington, Princeton University
Gordon Wood, Brown University
David Wootton, University of York
Jean Yarbrough, Bowdoin College
Donald Yerxa, Eastern Nazarene College

Kamis, 08 September 2011

Job in US Intellectual History

US CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

The Department of History at Hobart and William Smith Colleges invites applications

for a tenure-track assistant professor in American cultural and intellectual history, to begin Fall 2012, with a focus on constitutional and legal development. The department welcomes scholars working in all periods and adopting all interpretive approaches. Because of the Department’s strengths in nineteenth- and early twentieth century US history, there is a strong preference for those with teaching and research interests in colonial history or in post-1945 history. Teaching will include undergraduate survey courses in cultural and intellectual history and in constitutional and legal history, upper level courses of the instructor’s choice and area of expertise, and participation in the Colleges’ general curriculum. Courses that are interdisciplinary are especially appealing to our students.

Hobart and William Smith Colleges are a highly selective residential liberal arts institution located in a small, diverse city in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. With an enrollment of approximately 2,200, the Colleges offer 62 majors and minors from which students choose two areas of concentration, one of which must be an interdisciplinary program. Creative and extensive programs of international study and public service are also at the core of the Colleges’ mission. Hobart and William Smith Colleges are committed to attracting and supporting faculty and staff that fully represent the racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the nation and actively seek applications from under-represented groups. The Colleges do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, marital status, national origin, age, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression or any other protected status.

Please send a CV, cover letter, graduate transcript, and three letters of recommendation to Prof. Clifton Hood, Chair, American Search Committee, History Department, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, N.Y. 14456-3397. Preliminary interviews will be held at the AHA meeting. Applications received after Dec. 19, 2011 cannot be guaranteed full consideration.

Symposium Announcement: "SELF AMONG SELVES" (Syracuse University)

If you live anywhere near Syracuse University, you might consider attending this one-day graduate symposium titled "SELF AMONG SELVES: EMOTION AND THE COMMON LIFE." It will take place Thursday, September 29, from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Details are available in this brochure.

Kamis, 02 September 2010

Conference Announcement: American Ideas In Context (Nottingham, UK, 9/13-14/2010)

[From Nick Witham - TL]

A full programme is now available for American Ideas in Context, a postgraduate and early career conference on U.S. intellectual history to be held at the School of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham, UK on 13-14 September 2010.

The event will be an opportunity for scholars from a variety of disciplines to meet and discuss the latest work in the field of U.S. intellectual history (broadly defined). It will feature plenary lectures from Michael O’Brien (Cambridge University) and Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen (University of Wisconsin-Madison), along with roundtables on early career publishing and “Ideas and Ideology in American History”.

Registration is FREE, and includes lunch and a wine reception. To register, please email american.ideas@gmail.com with your institutional affiliation and any dietary requirements. To find out more information about the conference, especially accommodation in Nottingham, please visit the conference blog:

http://americanideasincontext.wordpress.com/

We look forward to seeing you in September!

Nick Witham (on behalf of the conference committee)

Conference Announcement: American Ideas In Context (Nottingham, UK, 9/13-14/2010)

Kamis, 03 September 2009

Slightly Off Topic: Adler Planetarium Lecture Announcement

If you live in Chicago, you might be interested in the following lecture to be given later this month:

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12th Annual Roderick S. Webster Memorial Lecture
"Greek Astronomers and the Ancient Public"~ ~
Speaker: Dr. Alexander Jones
Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
New York University

Wednesday, Sept 23, 2009
6:00 p.m.

Universe Theater
Adler Planetarium
1300 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago

Between about 200 B.C.E. and 200 C.E., Greek astronomers learned how to explain and predict the appearances and motions of the heavenly bodies with remarkable precision. At the same time, they took great interest in explaining astronomy and its uses to the general public. In this lecture, Dr. Alexander Jones will talk about what these early astronomers thought the public should know about their science and why. Dr. Jones will illustrate the variety of approaches they used to convey their messages through words, pictures, numbers, and mechanical models.

Admission is free and open to the public. No registration is required. A reception will follow the lecture.

Sponsored by the Adler Planetarium and the Archaeological Institute of America: The Chicago Society
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Full disclosure: My wife works at the Adler Planetarium

Research Tidbit: Every intellectual historian, U.S. focused or otherwise, and every historian of science should know that the Adler holds collections on the history of astronomy.

Slightly Off Topic: Adler Planetarium Lecture Announcement

Selasa, 18 Agustus 2009

Announcement: Available Entries From The Forthcoming Encyclopedia of American Reform Movements

A few days ago one of our readers forwarded a list of open entries for the Encyclopedia of American Reform Movements. Many may be of interest to you. Encyclopedia articles can be a lot of work, but they do add to your publications list and can be great for testing the waters on a new subject. If you are interested in any from the list below, contact editors Jack McKivigan and Heather Kaufman at americanreform-at-gmail-dot-com. Here's another link containing contributor information. The publisher is Facts on File.

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Encyclopedia of American Reform Movements
Open entries as of August 2009

Chapter 3: Civil Rights Movement

1. Theory Entry: Religious Roots of Civil Rights Activism
2. Theory Entry: Civil Rights Agitation as Product of Economic Change
3. Theory Entry: Inter-Movement Conflicts
4. Historical Development: Reconstruction Era Civil Rights Efforts
5. Historical Development: Spread of Jim Crow in Early 20th Century
6. Intersections: Civil Rights and Socialism/Political Radicalism, and the Labor Movement
7. Future of Civil Rights as Reform Movement: Revitalization of Poor People’s Movements

Chapter 4: Communitarianism

1. Theory of Reform Movement: Competing Theories of Communitarianism
2. Historical Developments: Industrial Experimentation
3. Historical Developments: Life Style Experimentation

Chapter 5: Environmentalism

1. Historical Developments: Earth Day Celebrations (1970--)

Chapter 6: Healthcare Reform

1. Introductory Essay
2. Theory of Health Care Reform Movement: Reforming for Socioeconomic Equality in Health Care
3. Historical Developments: Early Healthcare Reform
4. Historical Developments: Reform of Mental Healthcare and Addiction Treatment
5. Historical Developments: Occupational Safety Movement
6. Historical Developments: Disability Rights Movement
7. Key Moments: Albert Kinsey Publishes First Report on Sexual Behavior (1948)
8. Key Moments: AIDS Was Recognized As Distinct Human Health Problem (1981)
9. Key Moments: Passage of Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)
10. Intersection with Other Reform Movements: Health Care Reform and Environmental Movement, LGBT Rights Movement, Public Education Reform, and Women’s Rights
11. Future of Heath Care Reform Movement: Debate over Access to Healthcare, the Privatization of Healthcare, and a National Healthcare System

Chapter 7: Human Rights

1. Theory of Human Rights as Reform
Consequences of the Global Market, War, and Armed Conflict for Human Rights
2. Intersection of Human Rights with Other Reform Movements: Human Rights and Women’s Rights, Civil Rights, LGBT Rights, Animal Rights, Environmentalism, and Pacifism/Anti-War

Chapter 8: Labor Movement

1. Theory of Labor Movement as Reform: Roots of Labor Movement Reform
2. Theory of Labor Movement as Reform: The Impact of Industrialization and Globalization

Chapter 9: LGBT Rights

1. Theory of Gay Rights as Reform Movement: Intersections of Class, Race, Gender and Sexual Identity
2. Historical Development of LGBT Movement: Gay Rights in the Era of the Closet
3. Historical Development of LGBT Movement: Gays Challenge Discrimination in the Professions
4. Key Moments: ACT-UP Launched To Protest Official Indifference to AIDS Epidemic (1987)
5. Intersection with Other Reform Movements: LGBT Rights and Health Reform, Human Rights, and Public Education
6. Future of LGBT Campaign as Reform Movement: Efforts to Gain Equal Rights and Transgender Inclusion

Chapter 10: Media Reform

1. Introductory Essay
2. Historical Developments:
3. Historical Developments: Evolution of Early Broadcasting
4. Historical Developments: Consequences of the Rightwing Backlash to the New Left
5. Historical Developments: Media Watchdog Groups
6. Historical Developments: Special Interest Groups and the Media
7. Intersection with Other Reform Movements: Media Reform and Christian Patriotism, Pacifism/Anti-War Movement, and Women’s Rights Movement

Chapter 11: Pacifism/Anti-War

1. Intersection of Pacifism/Anti-War with Other Reform Movements: Pacifism/Anti-War and Environmentalism, Human Rights, Labor Movement, Socialism/Political Radicalism, and Women's Rights
2. Future of Pacifism/Anti-War as Reform Movement: Progressive Coalition Views Militarism as Obstacle to Movements for Social Justice

Chapter 12: Populism

1. Theory of Populist Movement as Reform: Populism as a Political Protest Against the Status Quo v. Elite Branding of
2. Theory of Populist Movement as Reform: Populism as Demagoguery, an “Excess of Democracy”
3. 1. Theory of Populist Movement as Reform: Populism as a Model of “Movement Culture and Mass Recruitment,”
4. Historical Development of Reform Movement: 18th and 19th Century Farmer Protests and “Rebellions”
5. Historical Development of Reform Movement: Twentieth Century “Populist” Reincarnations
6. Historical Development of Reform Movement: White Populist Dixiecrats and Jim Crow
7. Intersection with Other Reform Movements: Populism and Civil Rights and Labor Movement

Chapter 13: Progressivism

1. Theory of Progressivism as Reform Movement: Motivation for Progressive Reformism

Chapter 14: Public Education Reform

1. Theory of Reform Movement: Intersections between Government and Business in Public Education
2. Historical Developments: Gender and American Education Policy
3. Future of Public Education Reform: Privatization and Attack on Secularism in Public Education

Chapter 15: Radical Right

1. Theory of Reform: Understanding the Motivation of the Radical Right
2. Historical Developments: Anti-Semitic Groups
3 Historical Developments:. Christian Identity Movement
4. Intersections with Other Reforms: Christian Patriotism and Populism
5. Future of the Reform: Groups who Adhere to Armed Resistance Continue to Recruit, Organize, and Challenge the Federal Government

Chapter 16: Religious Benevolence

1. Introductory Overview Essay
2. Theory of Reform Movement: Benevolence Viewed as Women’s Work

Chapter 17: Socialism/Political Radicalism

1. Theory of Reform: Political, Socio-Economic, and Structural Obstacles to Third-Party Activism
2. Theory of Reform: Cultural Bohemianism as an Expression of Political Radicalism
3. Historical Developments: Antebellum Critique of Capitalism
4. Historical Developments: Utopian Socialism (Edward Bellamy, Henry George, etc.)
5. Intersection with Other Reform Movements: Socialism/Political Radicalism and Civil Rights Movement, Communitarianism, Labor Movement, Pacifism/Anti-War, Religious Benevolence, and Women’s Rights Movement
6. Future of the Reform: Future Opposition to Globalization and Declining Economic Opportunities

Chapter 18: Temperance

1. Theory of Temperance Movement: Alcohol/Drug Abuse Gain Legitimacy as a Social Problem
2. Theory of Temperance Movement :Temperance as Form of Social Control
3. Historical Developments: Unintended Consequences of War on Drugs (1969-Present)
4. Intersections with Other Reform Moments: Temperance and Health Reform, Public Education Reform, Progressivism, and Religious Benevolence
5. Future of Temperance Reform: State Authority v. Personal Autonomy Debate in Continuing Debate over "Drug" Decriminalization

Chapter 19: Women’s Rights Movement

1. Theory of the Reform Movement: Sources of Mobilization for Women's Rights Across the Three Waves of Feminism
2. Theory of the Reform Movement: Sources of Tension within Women's Rights Movement

Chapter 20: Ethnic Identity Movements

1. Introductory Overview Essay
2. Historical Development of Reform: Chinese Equal Rights League Founded in 1884 to Battle Exclusion Policies
3. Historical Development of Reform: Anti-Defamation League Founded in 1913 to Combat Anti-Semitism
4. Historical Development of Reform: Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) Founded in 1929 to Promote Greater Understanding and Awareness of Asian American Pacific Islanders