American Labyrinth

edited by Raymond Haberski, Jr. and Andrew Hartman

Raymond Haberski Jr. is Professor of History and Director of American Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. He is the author of five books, including God and War. Andrew Hartman is Professor of History at Illinois State University. He is the author of two books, most recently, A War for the Soul of America.

Introduction: Intellectual History for Complicated TimesSection I MAPPING AMERICAN IDEAS1. Wingspread: So What? James Livingston2. On Legal Fundamentalism: David Sehat3. Freedom's Just Another Word? The Intellectual Trajectories of the 1960s: Kevin M. SchultzSection II IDEAS AND AMERICAN IDENTITIES4. Philosophy vs. Philosophers: A Problem in American Intellectual History: Amy Kittelstrom5. The Price of Recognition: Race and the Making of the Modern University: Jonathan Holloway6. Thanks, Gender! An Intellectual History of the Gym: Natalia Mehlman Petrzela7. Parallel Empires: Transnationalism and Intellectual History in the Western Hemisphere: Ruben FloresSection III DANGEROUS IDEAS8. Toward a New, Old Liberal Imagination: From Obama to Niebuhr and Back Again: Kevin Mattson9. Against the Liberal Tradition: An Intellectual History of the American Left: Andrew Hartman10. From "Tall Ideas Dancing" to Trump's Twitter Ranting: Reckoning the Intellectual History of Conservatism: Lisa Szefel11. The Reinvention of Entrepreneurship: Angus BurginSection IV CONTESTED IDEAS12. War and American Thought: Finding a Nation through Killing and Dying: Raymond Haberski Jr.13. United States in the World: The Significance of an Isolationist Tradition: Christopher McKnight Nichols14. Reinscribing Religious Authenticity: Religion, Secularism, and the Perspectival Character of Intellectual History: K. Healan Gaston15. "The Entire Thing Was a Fraud": Christianity, Free thought, and African American Culture: Christopher CameronSection V IDEAS AND CONSEQUENCES16. Against and beyond Hofstadter: Revising the Study of Anti-intellectualism: Tim Lacy17. Culture as Intellectual History: Broadening a Field of Study in the Wake of the Cultural Turn: Benjamin L. Alpers18. On the Politics of Knowledge: Science, Conflict, Power: Andrew JewettConclusion: The Idea of Historical Context and the Intellectual Historian: Andrew JewettContributorsAcknowledgmentsIndex