Thrift Shop Historiography [1]
I highly recommend James W. Cook’s outstanding essay in the June 2012 AHR, “The Kids are All Right: On the ‘Turning’ of Cultural History.” Cook’s essay was part of the AHR’s forum on historiographic...
View ArticleAlternate Tune, Alternate Lyrics [14]
I am currently working on a “side project” — a little historical puzzle that I am trying to sort out related to evangelism, race relations, and 20th century protest movements. In that connection, I...
View ArticleAMERICAN GRAFFITI and the Sixties in the Seventies [20]
This weekend, I re-watched George Lucas’s American Graffiti, which was released forty years ago this past August.[1] Although I had seen the film three or four times before, it had been about a quarter...
View ArticleStuart Hall (1932-2014) [18]
News arrived this morning that the great sociologist and cultural theorist Stuart Hall has passed away; an excellent obituary can be found at The Guardian. Although the focus of his work was, in a...
View ArticleDiagnosis: Intellectual Historian (Guest Post by Daniel Goldberg) [4]
[The following is a guest post by Daniel Goldberg.] Thanks much to LD Burnett and the entire gang here at USIH Blog for permitting me to wade on in and muck things up for everybody again. I promise to...
View ArticleThe Meaning of Ideology: A Cultural Historian’s Perspective (Expanded...
What follows is an expanded version of the talk Michael J. Kramer gave as part of a plenary at the most recent S-USIH Conference in Indianapolis on the topic: “The Ideology Problem in Teaching and...
View ArticleThe Use and Abuse of Intellectual History: Reflections of an Early...
As a newcomer to the blog and an early US historian I thought to start off with a series of posts exploring some of the challenges facing early American intellectual history. While much of the...
View ArticleThe Use and Abuse of Intellectual History: Reflections of an Early...
In last week’s post, the second in this series, I argued that much of early American historiography—the revolutionary period in particular—has suffered from an inadequate conceptual framework for...
View ArticleEmbodied Self: The New Causal History, Part I [4]
Lynn Hunt. Writing History in the Global Era (New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 2014) 208 pages. This is the first of a two part series on the new Lynn Hunt work, Writing History in the Global...
View ArticleStars Wars as Moral Adventure [6]
[Note: This post is offered in conjunction with the For the Love of Film: Film Preservation Blogathon (lead by Ferdy on Films writers). The theme of this year’s blogathon is science fiction, and is...
View ArticleGlobalizing (and Historicizing) Sex Ed
Jonathan Zimmerman, Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015) 202 pages. Review by Richard Hughes In 1947, just six years after Life...
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