“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 ...

The Mind of the Master Class is a masterpiece. In The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders’ Worldview, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene Genovese embark upon a task ...

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 ...

The Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 14, No. 2 (WINTER 1953), pp. 55-71 (19 pages) The Princeton University Library has arranged in the Princetoniana Room an exhibition to honor the memory ...

During the past few years American intellectual historians have become more interested in the social context of ideas than in the ideas themselves. But a careful analysis of how the American people ...

Prof. Derrick Spires, literatures in english, will give a webcast on Wednesday about the past and present of Black culture in written work in the United States, including discussion of African ...

It would take a mighty large bookcase to contain all of the works on pragmatism published over the last two decades. The brainchild of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) and William James (1842-1910) ...

“The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery” (Harvard, 368 pages, $29.95) began with a question. “I wanted to know,” writes John Samuel Harpham, “how what we now consider perhaps the most terrible ...

From sea to shining sea, historians across the U.S. were doing shots of whiskey, mixing stiff cocktails, and binge-eating chocolate in the middle of the day on Thursday—not to celebrate any sudden ...