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Review of Casey Nelson Blake, ed., The Arts of Democracy: Art, Public Culture, and the State (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-4029-0. 361 pages.Review by Andrew HartmanIllinois State UniversityJuly 2010“At stake in every struggle over art there is also the imposition of an art of living, that is, the transmutation of an arbitrary way of living into the

[Updated: 5/14/2010]The program for the third annual U.S. Intellectual History Conference (USIH3) will be highlighted by the following keynote speaker and plenary sessions:------------------------------------------------------------------Keynote: James Kloppenberg, the Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard University. Friday, Oct. 22, 1:30-3:00 p.m.Professor Kloppenberg

If only I lived in New York! Participants in this exciting half-day conference include two historians scheduled to speak on one of our plenaries at the upcoming USIH conference--Casey Nelson Blake and Rochelle Gurstein.From the Columbia University website:Columbia University to Host Conference on the Journalism of OpinionThe Friends of Columbia Libraries are pleased to co-sponsor a conference on

I was present at two sessions on intellectual history at last week’s annual meeting of the OAH in Washington, D.C., one as a participant and one as an audience member. Both took place in packed rooms. This prompted several intellectual historians to suggest, with enthusiasm, that we seem to be in the midst of a U.S. intellectual history revival. Some even hinted that the USIH Blog and Conference