Further Reading

Abruzzo, Margaret N. Political Pain: Slavery, Cruelty, and the Rise of Humanitarianism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

Abzug, Robert H. Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Armitage, David. The Ideological Origins of the British Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1967.

Baker, Houston A. Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Bay, Mia E. The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830–1925. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Bay, Mia E., Farah Jasmine Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara Dianne Savage. Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

Bederman, Gail. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880–1917. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Biel, Steven. Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910–1945. New York: New York University Press, 1992.

Blake, Casey Nelson. Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.

Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2002.

Bloch, Ruth H. Visionary Republic: Millennial Themes in American Thought, 1756–1800. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Borus, Daniel H. Twentieth-Century Multiplicity: American Thought and Culture, 1900–1920. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.

Boyer, Paul S. When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1992.

Bozeman, Theodore Dwight. Protestants in an Age of Science: The Baconian Ideal and Antebellum American Religious Thought. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1977.

Brick, Howard. Age of Contradiction: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s. New York: Twayne, 1998.

Brick, Howard. Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006.

Brown, Vincent. The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.

Burgin, Angus. The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.

Butler, Leslie. Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

Capper, Charles. Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life. Vol. 1, The Private Years. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Capper, Charles. Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life. Vol. 2, The Public Years. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Chaplin, Joyce. Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500–1676. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Chappell, David L. A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Cmiel, Kenneth. Democratic Eloquence: The Fight over Popular Speech in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: William Morrow, 1990.

Cohen-Cole, Jamie. The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Conn, Steven. History’s Shadow: Native Americans and Historical Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Cooney, Terry A. Balancing Acts: American Thought and Culture in the 1930’s. New York: Twayne, 1995.

Cooper, Brittney C. Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017.

Coronado, Raúl. A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.

Cotkin, George. Existential America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Cotlar, Seth. Tom Paine’s America: The Rise and Fall of Transatlantic Radicalism in the Early Republic. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2011.

Croce, Paul Jerome. Science and Religion in the Era of William James: Vol. 1, Eclipse of Certainty, 1820–1880. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Curti, Merle. The Growth of American Thought. 3rd ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1982.

Cusset, François. French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States. Translated by Jeff Fort. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

Dain, Bruce. A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Degler, Carl N. In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Denning, Michael. The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century. London: Verso, 1998.

Dorrien, Gary. The Making of American Liberal Theology: Idealism, Realism, and Modernity, 1900–1950. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003.

Dorrien, Gary. The Making of American Liberal Theology: Imagining Progressive Religion, 1805–1900. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001.

Douglas, Ann. Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995.

Faust, Drew Gilpin. A Sacred Circle: Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840–1860. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.

Feldman, Stephen M. American Legal Thought from Premodernism to Postmodernism: An Intellectual Voyage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Fink, Leon. Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Democratic Commitment. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Flores, Ruben. Backroads Pragmatists: Mexico’s Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.

Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Fox, Richard Wightman. Jesus in America: Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.

Fox, Richard Wightman, and James T. Kloppenberg, eds. A Companion to American Thought. Oxford/Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1995.

Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, and Eugene D. Genovese. The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders’ Worldview. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Frederickson, George M. The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817–1914. 2nd ed. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1987.

Gaines, Kevin. Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century. 2nd ed. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Genter, Robert. Late Modernism Art, Culture, and Politics in Cold War America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.

Gilman, Nils. Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Graebner, William. The Age of Doubt: American Thought and Culture in the 1940s. Boston: Twayne, 1991.

Grey, Edward G. New World Babel: Languages and Nations in Early America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Gura, Philip F. American Transcendentalism: A History. New York: Hill and Wang, 2008.

Hager, Christopher. Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.

Hall, David D. Worlds of Wonder; Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.

Hartman, Andrew. A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Haselby, Sam. The Origins of Religious Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Haskell, Thomas L. The Emergence of Professional Social Science: The American Social Science Association and the Nineteenth-Century Crisis of Authority. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977.

Hatch, Nathan O. The Sacred Cause of Liberty: Republican Thought and the Millennium in Revolutionary New England. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977.

Hedstrom, Matthew S. The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Hoeveler, J. David. The Postmodernist Turn: American Thought and Culture in the 1970s. New York: Twayne, 1996.

Hofstadter, Richard. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. New York: Vintage, 1963.

Hollinger, David A. Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism. Rev. ed. New York: Basic Books, 2006.

Hollinger, David A., and Charles Capper, eds. The American Intellectual Tradition. 6th ed., 2 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Holloway, Jonathan Scott. Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America since 1940. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2013.

Horowitz, Daniel. Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminist Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.

Howe, Daniel Walker. The Political Culture of the American Whigs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.

Hughes, H. Stuart. The Sea Change: The Migration of Social Thought, 1930–1965. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.

Igo, Sarah E. The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.

Isaac, Joel. Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.

Isaac, Joel, James Kloppenberg, Michael O’Brien, and Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, eds. The Worlds of American Intellectual History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Jacoby, Russell. The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe. New York: Basic Books, 2000.

Jay, Martin. A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923–1950. Boston: Little, Brown, 1973.

Jewett, Andrew. Science, Democracy, and the American University: From the Civil War to the Cold War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Kaag, John. American Philosophy: A Love Story. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2016.

Kazin, Alfred. On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature. 3rd ed. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1995.

Kazin, Michael. American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation. New York: Vintage, 2011.

Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. New York: Nation Books, 2016.

Kerber, Linda K. Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

King, Richard H. Race, Culture, and the Intellectuals: 1940–1970. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Kittelstrom, Amy. The Religion of Democracy: Seven Liberals and the American Moral Tradition. New York: Penguin, 2015.

Kloppenberg, James T. Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Knott, Sarah. Sensibility and the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Kuklick, Bruce. The Rise of American Philosophy: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860–1930. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1979.

Kupperman, Karen Ordahl, ed. America in European Consciousness, 1493–1750. Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Landsman, Ned C. From Colonials to Provincials: American Thought and Culture, 1680–1760. New York: Twayne, 1997.

Lasch, Christopher. The New Radicalism in America 1889–1963: The Intellectual as a Social Type. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997.

Lears, T. J. Jackson. No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880–1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Lepore, Jill. The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity. New York: Vintage, 1999.

Levine, Lawrence. Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom. 30th anniversary ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Levy, Jonathan. Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.

Livingston, James. The World Turned Inside Out: American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010.

Maier, Pauline. American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence. New York: Vintage, 1998.

Matthews, Jean V. Toward a New Society: American Thought and Culture, 1800–1830. Boston: Twayne, 1991.

May, Henry Farnham. The End of American Innocence: A Study of the First Years of Our Own Time, 1912–1917. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.

McClay, Wilfred M. The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

McDaniel, W. Caleb. The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery: Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013.

Menand, Louis. The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

Miller, Perry. Errand into the Wilderness. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1956.

Moses, Wilson Jeremiah. The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 1850–1925. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1978.

Murphy, Paul V. The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Nash, George H. The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America since 1945. 30th anniversary ed. Wilmington, DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006.

Noll, Mark A. America’s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Numbers, Ronald L. Darwinism Comes to America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.

O’Brien, Michael. Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810–1860. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Parker, Kunal Madhukar. Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790–1900: Legal Thought before Modernism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Pells, Richard H. Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.

Perry, Lewis. Civil Disobedience: An American Tradition. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013.

Perry, Lewis. Intellectual Life in America: A History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Posnock, Ross. Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Postel, Charles. The Populist Vision. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Prince, K. Stephen. Stories of the South: Race and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity, 1865–1915. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

Purcell, Edward A., Jr. The Crisis of Democratic Theory: Scientific Naturalism and the Problem of Value. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1973.

Rakove, Jack N. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.

Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer. American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Reuben, Julie A. The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

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Rivett, Sarah. The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England. Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

Roberts, Jon H. Darwinism and the Divine in America: Protestant Intellectuals and Organic Evolution, 1859–1900. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.

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