| Publication |
2009.
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| Summary/Abstract |
When I told friends that I was heading
off to a doctoral program in U.S. intellectual
history, they either seemed mysti
½ed-"Do we have an intellectual history?"-
or found the entire proposition
somewhat funny: "American intellectual
history!? Isn't that an oxymoron!?"
More skepticism awaited as I began my
studies. Classmates repeatedly subjected
me to playful, if remorseless, interrogations
about the wherefores and whithers
of this so-called history of the American
mind. I had to wonder what I was doing
studying a subject that people think does
not exist.
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