Framing Post-World War II African American History
First off—Happy Black History Month! Traditionally my favorite time of the academic calendar as a young boy, Black History Month offers plenty of new things for everyone to learn. As intellectual...
View ArticleBlack Bookstores and the African American Mind
Yesterday Black Perspectives published a fascinating essay on the importance of black bookstores to the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Joshua Clark Davis’ piece, a summation of a chapter...
View ArticleCoretta Scott King and American Intellectual History
Normally, around this time of year, we at S-USIH would post something about Martin Luther King, Jr. and American intellectual history. Considering that today is King’s actual birthday—we as a nation...
View ArticleNeoliberalism, the Culture Wars, and Oingo Boingo.
Recently, the shuffle on my computer’s playlist scrounged up a track from one of my favorite bands, Oingo Boingo. Endearingly titled “Wild Sex in the Working Class,” the song proceeds from the point of...
View ArticleThe Tragedy–and Hope–of African American History
In 2007, Andrew Sullivan wrote a cover essay for The Atlantic in which he argued that the rise of Barack Obama to the national stage meant an end to the divisive cultural politics that defined American...
View ArticleBearing Gifts We Traverse Afar
‘Tis the season for wise men and wise women bearing marvelous gifts. Recently, I received such a gift from such a person: a couple of reams of archival materials spanning about seven years of...
View ArticleAlas, Alas, Babylon!
In the 1970s, in central California, some high school students read Pat Frank’s novel Alas, Babylon in their sophomore English classes. I know this because my grandmother, who went to college in her...
View ArticleReading and Reflecting on Election Day, 2016
I find myself unsure of what to write about on this day, only a few days after the surprising victory of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. At this point, I have read far too many...
View ArticleA Relativist Utopia?: The Politics of Star Trek: The Next Generation
Guest Post by Mike O’Connor By most metrics, the success of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-94) dwarfed that which its predecessor Star Trek had received on NBC during its initial 1966-69 run....
View ArticleReconsidering Jesse Jackson: The Caricature, The Person, The Politician – Part 3
Today’s post is the third in a four-part argument about the history and significance of the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr., as a political activist and thinker. The first two installments are here and...
View ArticleReconsidering Jesse Jackson: The Caricature, The Person, The Politician – Part 2
Today’s post is the second in a four-part argument about the history and significance of the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr., as a political activist and thinker. The first installment is here. My thesis...
View ArticleReconsidering Jesse Jackson: The Caricature, The Person, The Politician – Part 1
Today’s post begins a four-part argument about the history and significance of the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr., as a political activist and thinker. My thesis is this: A full reconsideration of the...
View ArticleTo “B” or Not to “B”: On Capitalizing the Word “Black”
Last fall, I got some pushback from one of my dissertation readers on my capitalization of the word “Black,” with a marginal note along the lines of “Why are you capitalizing ‘Black’ and not ‘white’?”...
View ArticleMother Angelica, the Culture Wars, and the Catholic Church
One of the most famous nuns in recent history, both in the United States and world, passed away this past Sunday. Because of Mother Mary Angelica‘s creation of the Eternal Word Television Network...
View ArticleThe Center Would Be Lost
Last week I (finally!) read Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose. After the jump, I discuss a key theme of the text, a discussion that necessarily requires major plot spoilers. So, caveat lector! At its...
View ArticleThe Element of Surprise
On November 9, 1989, I was having a beer with a friend at Conte’s Pizzeria in Princeton, NJ, when I glanced up at the tv behind the bar. People were climbing on the Berlin Wall. It’s hard to express...
View ArticleIntellectual History Books for the Spring [5]
Today’s post will be a brief summation of intellectual history, and intellectual history-related, books coming out this spring. Some of them, in fact, are already out. Regardless, it is clear that 2016...
View ArticleAn ad hoc Canon for the 1980s [43]
Yesterday I started reading Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose. Apparently, I’m not the only one who was recently inspired to delve into this 1980s bestseller; when I went online last weekend to order...
View ArticleBooks That Matter: Twenty-Five Years of Gender Trouble, a Guest Post by...
The following post is by Claire Bond Potter, Professor of History and Director of the Digital Humanities Initiative at the New School and author of War on Crime: Bandits, G-Men, and the Politics of...
View ArticleEmpire, This Is: Reflections on the Star Wars Saga and Everyday Empire [26]
After the smashing success of Star Wars in the late 1970s, everyone—of a certain age—was looking forward to the release of The Empire Strikes Back, which occurred in 1980. Everyone wanted to see what...
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