“L ike many African Americanists,” the Vanderbilt University historian Brandon Byrd says, “I consider myself a generalist. It wasn’t till the past five years or so, when I joined the African American ...

Empires are not the only entities that rise and fall. So too are academic fields of study. When I was a doctoral student, many of the foremost U.S. historians were intellectual historians: David Brion ...

n The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders’ Worldview, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene Genovese embark upon a task of rehabilitative intellectual history ...

Alcove 1 at the City College of New York is surely the most famous lunch table in American intellectual history. No Ivy League dining hall can compete. In the 1930s, a remarkable coterie of students ...

I specialize in American intellectual and political history with a particular emphasis on the American Revolution and Early American Republic. My first book Thomas Jefferson and American Nationhood ...

There had been a few earlier American novels describing intellectuals; but by 1920 a personality of someone like Carol Kennicott, lonely in the intellectual desert of Gopher Prairie, had become ...

Papers presented at the Wingspread Conference on New Directions in American Intellectual History held in 1977 at Racine, Wis. siris_sil_115542 ...