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

    By  Richard Cándida Smith | March 1, 2025

    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

    By  Roberto Breña | March 2, 2025

    Roberto Breña responds to Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History.

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  • Out For Blood

    By  David Farber | March 2, 2025

    David Farber responds to Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History.

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  • Retheorizing Who Theorizes

    By  Joshua L. Crutchfield | March 3, 2025

    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

    By  Aubrey Lauersdorf | March 4, 2025

    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?

    By  Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra | March 5, 2025

    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.

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