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  • Roundtable

    Retheorizing Who Theorizes

    By

    Joshua L. Crutchfield

    March 3, 2025
    Retheorizing Who Theorizes

    Joshua L. Crutchfield responds to Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History.


  • Roundtable

    Out For Blood

    By

    David Farber

    March 2, 2025
    Out For Blood

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


  • Roundtable

    The Unexceptionalism of American Exceptionalism

    By

    Roberto Breña

    March 2, 2025
    The Unexceptionalism of American Exceptionalism

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


  • Roundtable

    The Possibilities of Multiplicity

    By

    Richard Cándida Smith

    March 1, 2025
    The Possibilities of Multiplicity

    Richard Cándida Smith responds to Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History.


  • Roundtable

    Introduction: The More (and Sometimes More Important) Ideas That Made America Roundtable

    By

    Michael J. Kramer

    February 28, 2025
    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.


  • Editor’s Note

    What’s Our Bag?

    By

    Michael J. Kramer

    February 27, 2025
    What’s Our Bag?

    Opening thoughts from the editor of The Carryall.

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