Empires are not the only entities that rise and fall. So too are academic fields of study. When I was a doctoral student, many of the foremost U.S. historians were intellectual historians: David Brion ...

Jay first chronicled this group in his 1973 book The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute for Social Research, 1923-50. He is still associated closely with that ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt21h4w2k https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt21h4w2k.3 The intellectual historians who gathered at the Frank Lloyd ...

During the past few years American intellectual historians have become more interested in the social context of ideas than in the ideas themselves. But a careful analysis of how the American people ...

“The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery” (Harvard, 368 pages, $29.95) began with a question. “I wanted to know,” writes John Samuel Harpham, “how what we now consider perhaps the most terrible ...