Hello, scholars! We are proud to sponsor several prizes honoring your scholarship in U.S. intellectual history. Please see below for the 2025 awards and note that all submissions are due by 1 March 20...

As barnyard thefts went, it was a pretty bad one: a fat turkey and fourteen chickens gone, just as the winter of 1828 froze up Washington waterways and holiday feasts beckoned. The culprits behind the...

Hello, scholars! We are proud to sponsor several prizes honoring your scholarship in U.S. intellectual history. Please see below for the 2025 awards and note that all submissions are due by 1 March 20...

After this apocalyptic election, I don't want to hear any more pundits prattle. Give me some old-school Augustinian pessimism, and out of that I will fashion hope.

Annual Conference for the Society of U.S. Intellectual History, Thursday, November 14–Saturday, November 16, 2024

Annual Conference for the Society of U.S. Intellectual History, Thursday, November 14–Saturday, November 16, 2024

Click the link to download the final program for the 2024 Boston Conference Registration for the conference is now open. You can register at this link. Please note there are different rates for societ...

As the 2024 presidential election approaches, some of the largest and most controversial issues in American politics concern legal and illegal immigration, refugee policy, and the security of the coun...

View the 2024 S-USIH Conference Program here

The Fourth of July is, by happy circumstance, generally a good day for historical editors. Over barbecues and across beaches, from sea to shining sea, folks seem glad to talk about founding-era docume...

Huzzah, historians! We're thrilled to announce the recipients of our Henry F. May Fund Research Fellowships, who will each receive $500 to support their scholarship this summer. Read on to learn about...

We’re delighted to announce that we will award up to 2 Henry F. May Fund research fellowships to graduate students to use this summer, in the amount of $500 each. To apply, please send your C.V., alon...

The Society for U.S. Intellectual History and Modern Intellectual History are excited to announce the inaugural USIH-MIH Early Career Workshop. This one-day, in-person workshop will take place in Bost...

We are so excited for the USIH conference later this year! Based on the theme “Knowledge and Belief,” the conference will take place in Boston on November 14-16 at the Boston Sheraton. The deadline fo...