Introduction: The More (and Sometimes More Important) Ideas That Made America Roundtable
Historians expand upon Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s brief survey, The Ideas That Made America, to think about US intellectual history’s narratives, foci, methods, and more.
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The Possibilities of Multiplicity
Richard Cándida Smith responds to Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History.
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The Unexceptionalism of American Exceptionalism
Roberto Breña responds to Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History.
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Out For Blood
David Farber responds to Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History.
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Retheorizing Who Theorizes
Joshua L. Crutchfield responds to Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History.
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The Ideas that Made Tsenacommacah
Aubrey Lauersdorf responds to Chapter 1—World of Empires (Precontact-1740) in Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History.
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Whose Ideas? Whose America?
Jorge Canizares-Esguerra responds to Chapter 1—World of Empires (Precontact-1740) and Chapter 2—America and the Transatlantic Enlightenment (1740-1800) in Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History.
