New Directions in American Intellectual History

1980 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 449
Author(s):  
Gene Wise ◽  
John Higham ◽  
Paul K. Conkin
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
New Directions ◽  
American Intellectual ◽  
American Intellectual History

New Directions in American Intellectual History. John Higham , P. K. Conkin

Isis ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-112
Author(s):  
Nathan Reingold
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
New Directions ◽  
American Intellectual ◽  
American Intellectual History

New Directions in American Intellectual History

1980 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 314
Author(s):  
Robert Allen Skotheim ◽  
John Higham ◽  
Paul K. Conkin ◽  
Michael Kammen
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
New Directions ◽  
American Intellectual ◽  
American Intellectual History

New Directions in American Intellectual History.

1980 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Bruce L. Clayton ◽  
John Higham ◽  
Paul K. Conkin
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
New Directions ◽  
American Intellectual ◽  
American Intellectual History

New Directions in American Intellectual History

1979 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Ronald E. Mickel ◽  
John Higham ◽  
Paul K. Conkin
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
New Directions ◽  
American Intellectual ◽  
American Intellectual History

FORTY YEARS FROM WINGSPREAD: THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (02) ◽  
pp. 633-651
Author(s):  
THOMAS BENDER
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Social History ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
Rescue Service ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Conference Center ◽  
American Intellectual ◽  
American Intellectual History ◽  
Perceived Challenge

If one Googles “Wingspread” a vast number of conference titles covering all manner of topics will fill the screen: from Fire-Rescue Service Stakeholders to Endocrine Disruptors, from Domestic Violence to Civic Responsibilities of Research. Of more interest to intellectual historians was the conference on the future of American intellectual history held at the Wingspread Conference Center in 1977. Over forty years the “Wingspread conference” and the book that came out of it has echoed through the field. Neither the conference nor the book that emerged from it, New Directions in American Intellectual History, edited by John Higham and Paul Conkin, was a celebration of the field. It focused on a collective crisis of confidence, particularly among the more senior scholars. The heart of the matter at the conference was the perceived challenge of social history, a social history that fancied itself “scientific” and more rigorous than intellectual history. There was fear that this movement in the profession was marginalizing a field that had flourished for a couple of generations.

American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Revolutionary War ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Westward Expansion ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Intellectual ◽  
American Intellectual History ◽  
American Thought

American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction provides an introduction to the history of American thought from the sixteenth century up until the present. Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European commentators and explorers. American thought grew from this foundation of expectation and experience, both enriched and challenged over the centuries by developments including the Revolutionary War, westward expansion, the rise of capitalism, the proliferation of diverse religions, immigration, industrialization, and the emergence of the United States as a superpower. This introduction provides an overview of some of the most compelling episodes and abiding preoccupations in American thought, while showing how ideas have been major forces driving the course of American history.

WHAT IS OUR “CANON”? HOW AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORIANS DEBATE THE CORE OF THEIR FIELD

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID A. HOLLINGER
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Center Of Gravity ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
Important Indicator ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Specific Research ◽  
The Core ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
American Intellectual ◽  
American Intellectual History

These selected excerpts from a conversation now running nearly a quarter-century about The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook exemplify the efforts made by specialists in American intellectual history to decide just what constitutes the core of their field. An anthology designed for undergraduates has practical limitations, to be sure, that prevent its table of contents from ever serving as a complete map of a field. Specific research questions, not arguments over canons, properly remain the deepest center of gravity of any cohort of scholars. But assignments to students are one important indicator of what scholar–teachers take to be important, and these assignments are not unrelated to choices these same individuals make about the topics of their monographic contributions. Hence the lively correspondence that my coeditor, Charles Capper, and I have carried on with dozens of colleagues concerning the six editions of the only collection of sources for this field currently in print offers a window on how American intellectual history has changed in the last generation and what are its current directions.

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