Paul Murphy
@paulvmurphy.bsky.social
Historian, professor at Grand Valley State University, specialist in U.S. intellectual history.
For all those making final plans to attend the Society for U.S. Intellectual History annual meeting in Detroit next week, tips for navigating the city -- designated by no less than the New York Times as one of the 52 places to visit in 2025! One more reason to register!
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SUSIH 2025: Help! How Do I Navigate Detroit? | Society for US Intellectual History
Leaving the Airport From the Wayne County Municipal Airport, which is the major international airport, located to the southwest of the city, you have several options for getting into downtown: Detroit...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:43 AM
For all those making final plans to attend the Society for U.S. Intellectual History annual meeting in Detroit next week, tips for navigating the city -- designated by no less than the New York Times as one of the 52 places to visit in 2025! One more reason to register!
s-usih.org/2025/10/susi...
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Another reason to attend the Society for U.S. Intellectual History Conference in Detroit, Nov. 6-8: A plenary panel exploring Arab American identity and "the ways in which art and culture can simultaneously inflict trauma and serve as forms of resistance."
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SUSIH 2025: Previewing the “Arab American Intellectual History” Opening Plenary | Society for US Intellectual History
Anthony D. Smith argues that to be a people is to be rooted in an ethnie—a historic community with shared memories, symbols, traditions, customs, norms, and territory that can evolve into a modern nat...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Another reason to attend the Society for U.S. Intellectual History Conference in Detroit, Nov. 6-8: A plenary panel exploring Arab American identity and "the ways in which art and culture can simultaneously inflict trauma and serve as forms of resistance."
s-usih.org/2025/10/susi...
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If you are looking for "Creativity and Renewal," attend the S-USIH Conference in Detroit, Nov. 6-8. You can learn about James and Grace Lee Boggs, Left intellectuals who took as their goal "projecting alternatives and creating new visions for the future."
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SUSIH 2025: Previewing the “American Revolutionaries: James and Grace Lee Boggs and Their Circles in Detroit” Panel | Society for US Intellectual History
No intellectual history conference taking place in Detroit would be complete without a session on James and Grace Lee Boggs, “two of America’s foremost radical theoreticians” of the 20th century, who ...
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October 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
If you are looking for "Creativity and Renewal," attend the S-USIH Conference in Detroit, Nov. 6-8. You can learn about James and Grace Lee Boggs, Left intellectuals who took as their goal "projecting alternatives and creating new visions for the future."
s-usih.org/2025/10/susi...
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The annual meeting of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History is coming soon, Nov. 6-8, in Detroit. Still time to register. Here is a preview.
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SUSIH 2025: Previewing the “Censorship and Intellectual Unfreedom in Modern America” Plenary | Society for US Intellectual History
“At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?” -- Ilya Kaminsky As intellectual historians, we are keenly attuned to the en...
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October 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The annual meeting of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History is coming soon, Nov. 6-8, in Detroit. Still time to register. Here is a preview.
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Good explanation of the kind of debating, which was not really debating, of Charlie Kirk from Josh Marshall. Some call it "debating freshman" but he identifies is as a "Debate me, bro" model popular with young people and ubiquitous on social media. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/and-g...
And God Said, ‘Debate Me, Bro’ … And Other Notes From the Kirk Canonization
There are many threads surrounding the MAGA right’s ongoing martyr-making and canonization...
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September 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Good explanation of the kind of debating, which was not really debating, of Charlie Kirk from Josh Marshall. Some call it "debating freshman" but he identifies is as a "Debate me, bro" model popular with young people and ubiquitous on social media. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/and-g...
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🗃️ Pssst @susih.bsky.social friends, look forward to seeing you in Detroit! Do register now for #USIH2025 and note that our hotel room block is nearly sold out! Click on through for details s-usih.org/conference/s...
2025 Conference: Detroit | Society for US Intellectual History
Click the link to download the USIH2025 Program 09-12-25. Registration for the conference is now open. You can register at this link. Please note there are different rates for society members, student...
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September 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
🗃️ Pssst @susih.bsky.social friends, look forward to seeing you in Detroit! Do register now for #USIH2025 and note that our hotel room block is nearly sold out! Click on through for details s-usih.org/conference/s...
From Charles Turner, Massachusetts Ratification Convention, Jan. 17, 1788: “Relinquishing an hair’s breadth in a constitution is a great deal; for by degrees has liberty in all nations, been wrested from the hands of the people.” Timely warning.
September 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
From Charles Turner, Massachusetts Ratification Convention, Jan. 17, 1788: “Relinquishing an hair’s breadth in a constitution is a great deal; for by degrees has liberty in all nations, been wrested from the hands of the people.” Timely warning.
Pinker’s defense of Harvard and academia is long on anti-woke rhetoric and very, well, Pinkerish but overall excellent. It takes him a while but: “Intellectual freedom is not a privilege of professors but the only way that fallible humans gain knowledge.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...
Opinion | Harvard Derangement Syndrome
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May 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Pinker’s defense of Harvard and academia is long on anti-woke rhetoric and very, well, Pinkerish but overall excellent. It takes him a while but: “Intellectual freedom is not a privilege of professors but the only way that fallible humans gain knowledge.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...
Shameless and open corruption from Trump and his family -- redolent of the Gilded Age. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...
Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy Changes: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm
World Liberty Financial has eviscerated the boundary between private enterprise and government policy in ways without precedent in modern American history.
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April 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Shameless and open corruption from Trump and his family -- redolent of the Gilded Age. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...
Josh Marshall on why top Trump Administration officials use Signal: "These are disappearing communications. They won’t be in the National Archives.... There also won’t be any records to determine whether crimes were committed." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/signa...
SignalGate Is Bad; But OPSEC Isn’t Even the Worst Part Of It
I haven’t had time to comment on the Jeff Goldberg story about...
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March 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Josh Marshall on why top Trump Administration officials use Signal: "These are disappearing communications. They won’t be in the National Archives.... There also won’t be any records to determine whether crimes were committed." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/signa...
Announcing Professor Casey Blake speaking on the topic "Experience as Art" at the annual Society for U.S. Intellectual History Conference this year in Detroit, Nov. 6-8. s-usih.org/2025/03/anno...
Announcement: #USIH2025 Keynote | Society for US Intellectual History
We look forward to seeing you at our annual meeting, to be held in Detroit, 6–8 November 2025, where we will explore the theme of "Creativity & Renewal." The deadline for submissions is 1 May 2025, an...
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March 20, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Announcing Professor Casey Blake speaking on the topic "Experience as Art" at the annual Society for U.S. Intellectual History Conference this year in Detroit, Nov. 6-8. s-usih.org/2025/03/anno...
My contribution to Michael Kramer's symposium on Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen's The Ideas That Made America -- at The Carryall. thecarryall.org/rethinking-t...
Rethinking the Primacy of Pragmatism | Carryall
Paul Murphy responds to Chapter 5: Modernist Revolts against Absolutes (1890-1920) in Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen's The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History.
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March 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
My contribution to Michael Kramer's symposium on Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen's The Ideas That Made America -- at The Carryall. thecarryall.org/rethinking-t...
Christopher Rufo's plan to reform higher education is to go after students: "by spinning off, privatizing and then reforming the student loan programs, I think that you could put the university sector as a whole into a significant recession." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...
Opinion | The Anti-D.E.I. Crusader Who Wants to Dismantle the Department of Education
Christopher Rufo’s mission to make universities feel “existential terror.”
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March 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Christopher Rufo's plan to reform higher education is to go after students: "by spinning off, privatizing and then reforming the student loan programs, I think that you could put the university sector as a whole into a significant recession." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...
New anthology planned on the post-industrial Midwest, for those who have an essay in mind. "Beyond Rust: The Post-Industrial American Midwest in Historical Perspective" networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
CFP: Beyond Rust: The Post-Industrial American Midwest in Historical Perspective | H-Net
Call for Chapter Proposals: Beyond Rust: The Post-Industrial American Midwest in Historical Perspective
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March 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
New anthology planned on the post-industrial Midwest, for those who have an essay in mind. "Beyond Rust: The Post-Industrial American Midwest in Historical Perspective" networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Jeremy Young has a strategy to defend university autonomy: Fight. "The idea of a university is unalterably opposed to the idea that the government has a monopoly on truth."
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March 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Jeremy Young has a strategy to defend university autonomy: Fight. "The idea of a university is unalterably opposed to the idea that the government has a monopoly on truth."
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Some suggest the Democrats are in disarray, but Sen. Elissa Slotkin delivered a cogent response to Trump's rambling address last night. On the issues of the economy, the border, and democracy, she explained the Democratic position. www.npr.org/2025/03/04/n...
Sen. Elissa Slotkin says more unites Americans than divides after Trump's speech
Michigan's Slotkin — a centrist with deep national security credentials — delivered the Democrats' rebuttal to Trump's speech, highlighting bipartisanship and the "core beliefs" most Americans share.
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March 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Some suggest the Democrats are in disarray, but Sen. Elissa Slotkin delivered a cogent response to Trump's rambling address last night. On the issues of the economy, the border, and democracy, she explained the Democratic position. www.npr.org/2025/03/04/n...
Recommended: The Carryall, Michael Kramer's new journal in U.S. intellectual and social history, starting up with a roundtable on Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen's Ideas That Made America.
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Welcome to The Carryall What’s in The Carryall, you ask? No specific journal of US cultural or intellectual history exists, even though cultural and intellectual history suffuse both academic and gene...
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March 4, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Recommended: The Carryall, Michael Kramer's new journal in U.S. intellectual and social history, starting up with a roundtable on Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen's Ideas That Made America.
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The Diggins Memorial Lecture coming up historyprogram.commons.gc.cuny.edu/3-5-what-is-...
3/5- “What is the Intellectual History of Care?” - The Ph.D. Program in History
The Ph.D. Program in History at the CUNY Graduate Center Presents… The John Patrick Diggins Memorial Lecture Sarah Knott
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February 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The Diggins Memorial Lecture coming up historyprogram.commons.gc.cuny.edu/3-5-what-is-...
Pen America fighting for academic freedom. pen.org/press-releas...
PEN America Condemns Education Department's Threat to Defund Schools Over DEI Programs - PEN America
PEN America Denounces Department of Education Letter That Would Ban Ideas About Race
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February 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Pen America fighting for academic freedom. pen.org/press-releas...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/.... A rare and admirable example of integrity from a Republican official
Read Danielle Sassoon’s Letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Annotated
Danielle R. Sassoon, who resigned Thursday as Manhattan’s U.S. attorney, writes to Attorney General Pam Bondi to explain her refusal to drop a corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York.
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February 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
www.nytimes.com/interactive/.... A rare and admirable example of integrity from a Republican official
S-USIH Conference to be held in the great city of Detroit in November. s-usih.org/2025/02/s-us...
S-USIH 2025 CFP: Creativity & Renewal | Society for US Intellectual History
Society for U.S. Intellectual History Call for Proposals The 2025 S-USIH Annual Conference will be held in Detroit, Michigan, on November 6-8, 2025, at the DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Detroit Downtown...
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February 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
S-USIH Conference to be held in the great city of Detroit in November. s-usih.org/2025/02/s-us...