Carryall

The Carryall is an online journal of US cultural & intellectual history.

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Through the State University of New York Research Foundation, The Carryall is able to receive your tax-deductible financial support. Our publication remains free and open source, but we welcome any contributions to be able to pay writers, editors, and interns, pursue new initiatives and projects, and maintain our online presence in a robust and pleasing format. As The Carryall develops, we hope to be able to offer special thank you gifts (tote bags, of course, will be among the offerings). We thank you for any and all financial support to sustain the publication and help it thrive as a place for US cultural and intellectual history thinking and writing.

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…criticism has been the great American lay philosophy, the intellectual conscience and the intellectual carryall. — Alfred Kazin