Leaving the Airport From the Wayne County Municipal Airport, which is the major international airport, located to the southwest of the city, you have several options for getting into downtown: Detroit...

Anthony D. Smith argues that to be a people is to be rooted in an ethnie—a historic community with shared memories, symbols, traditions, customs, norms, and territory that can evolve into a modern nat...

No intellectual history conference taking place in Detroit would be complete without a session on James and Grace Lee Boggs, “two of America’s foremost radical theoreticians” of the 20th century, who ...

“At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?” -- Ilya Kaminsky As intellectual historians, we are keenly attuned to the en...

There are many threads surrounding the MAGA right’s ongoing martyr-making and canonization...

Click the link to download the USIH2025 Program 09-12-25. Registration for the conference is now open. You can register at this link. Please note there are different rates for society members, student...

World Liberty Financial has eviscerated the boundary between private enterprise and government policy in ways without precedent in modern American history.

I haven’t had time to comment on the Jeff Goldberg story about...

We look forward to seeing you at our annual meeting, to be held in Detroit, 6–8 November 2025, where we will explore the theme of "Creativity & Renewal." The deadline for submissions is 1 May 2025, an...

Paul Murphy responds to Chapter 5: Modernist Revolts against Absolutes (1890-1920) in Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen's The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History.

Christopher Rufo’s mission to make universities feel “existential terror.”

Call for Chapter Proposals: Beyond Rust: The Post-Industrial American Midwest in Historical Perspective

Michigan's Slotkin — a centrist with deep national security credentials — delivered the Democrats' rebuttal to Trump's speech, highlighting bipartisanship and the "core beliefs" most Americans share.

Welcome to The Carryall What’s in The Carryall, you ask? No specific journal of US cultural or intellectual history exists, even though cultural and intellectual history suffuse both academic and gene...

The Ph.D. Program in History at the CUNY Graduate Center Presents… The John Patrick Diggins Memorial Lecture Sarah Knott

PEN America Denounces Department of Education Letter That Would Ban Ideas About Race

Danielle R. Sassoon, who resigned Thursday as Manhattan’s U.S. attorney, writes to Attorney General Pam Bondi to explain her refusal to drop a corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York.

Society for U.S. Intellectual History Call for Proposals The 2025 S-USIH Annual Conference will be held in Detroit, Michigan, on November 6-8, 2025, at the DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Detroit Downtown...