New at The Carryall: Wanda A. Hendricks and Brittney C. Cooper discuss the life, thinking, and social activism of Fannie Barrier Williams. thecarryall.org/fannie-barri...

This week at The Carryall: in the audio interview roundtable "Thinking Through the Black Panther Party," Joe Street discusses his book *Black Revolutionaries: A History of the Black Panther Party* with @randalljstephens.bsky.social and @julianchambliss.bsky.social. thecarryall.org/thinking-thr...

We begin *The Carryall* Issue 02: Spring/Summer 2026 with Scott Saul (@scottsaul.bsky.social)'s essay "Learning From Jorge Drexler (@jorgedrexler.bsky.social)," which asks what Latin American humanism might offer US cultural and intellectual history. thecarryall.org/learning-fro...

The Carryall Issue 02: Spring/Summer 2026 begins. Editor's Note, Tortoise Defeats Hare, from @michaeljkramer.bsky.social. thecarryall.org/tortoise-def...

To conclude the "More (and Sometimes More Important) Ideas That Made America" roundtable, @johannneem.bsky.social asks, in response to Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s The Ideas That Made America, how US intellectual historians might go about "Remaking America." thecarryall.org/remaking-ame...

Emily Hawk wants us to "Put Some Body Into It," today at The Carryall's "More (and Sometimes More Important) Ideas That Made America" roundtable, a series of responses to Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s *The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History.* thecarryall.org/put-some-bod...

Brandon James Render looks at how "X Marks the Spot" today at The Carryall's "More (and Sometimes More Important) Ideas That Made America" roundtable, a series of responses to Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s *The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History.* thecarryall.org/x-marks-the-...

Today at The Carryall, "Let's Go Crazy." Kevin Mattson responds to Chapter 8—The End of Universalism (1962-1990s) of Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s *The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History.* thecarryall.org/lets-go-crazy/

In "Playboys of the Postmodern World," Audrey Wu Clark responds to Chapter 8—The End of Universalism (1962-1990s) of Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s book, *The Ideas That Made America,* for The Carryall's "More (and Sometimes More Important) Ideas That Made America." thecarryall.org/playboys-of-...

Today at The Carryall, Robert Greene II is "Just Getting Started" in his response to Chapter 8—The End of Universalism (1962-1990s) in Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History. thecarryall.org/just-getting...

Check out this new online journal of cultural and intellectual history. thecarryall.org?fbclid=IwY2x...

Speaking of the challenges of being an intellectual in our current moment, I have a new piece out at @thecarryall.bsky.social comparing/contrasting the political economy of intellectuals in the 1950s and 1960s versus today. thecarryall.org/making-a-liv...

Thinking about the current rightwing attack on higher education? @llassabe.bsky.social has the backstory today at The Carryall’s “More (and Sometimes More Important) Ideas That Made America” roundtable. See “Attack on the Faculties.” thecarryall.org/attack-on-th...

At The Carryall today, @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social notices how 1950s intellectual were living large. Check out "Making a Living Thinking" in our "More (and Sometimes More Important) Ideas That Made America" roundtable. thecarryall.org/making-a-liv...

Today at The Carryall's "More (& Sometimes More Important) Ideas That Made America" roundtable, Shannan Clark's "Industrial Intellectuals" provides a response to Chapter 6—Roots & Rootlessness (1920-45) in Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s *The Ideas That Made America.* thecarryall.org/industrial-i...

Today at The Carryall, Victoria W. Wolcott explores "The Communal Counterpoint" to US intellectual history in the latest installment of the "More (and Sometimes More Important) Ideas That Made America" roundtable. thecarryall.org/the-communal....

Today at the Carryall, Guy Emerson Mount asks "How Progressive Was the Progressive Era?" in response to Chapter 5—Modernist Revolts against Absolutes (1890-1920) of Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s book, The Ideas That Made America. thecarryall.org/how-progress... cc: @susih.bsky.social

Today at The Carryall's roundtable on Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s *The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History*, Paul Murphy rethinks the primacy of pragmatism in response to Chapter 5—Modernist Revolts Against Absolutes (1890-1920). thecarryall.org/rethinking-t...

At The Carryall, Alyssa Quintanilla centers the Mexican-American boundary in response to Chapter 4—Contests of Intellectual Authority (1850-1890) of Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History. thecarryall.org/centering-th...

Did "Contests of Intellectual Authority" define US intellectual history between 1850 & 1890 or "Contests of Moral Urgency"? At The Carryall, Abigail Modaff responds to Chapter 4 of Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s *The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History.* thecarryall.org/contests-of-...

At The Carryall, Thomas N. Baker goes "Beyond the American Renaissance" in his response to Chapter 3—From Republican to Romantic (1800-1850) in Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History. thecarryall.org/beyond-the-a...

Today at The Carryall, Hunter Moskowitz takes us in search of "A Broader Fabric" of US intellectual history in and around the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts during the antebellum era. thecarryall.org/a-broader-fa...

No hoax! Today at The Carryall, Kevin B. Sheets explores antebellum pop culture in his roundtable response to Chapter 3—From Republican to Romantic (1800-1850) of Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen's *The Ideas That Made America.* Check out the essay “The Discarded Humbug." thecarryall.org/the-discarde...

Our roundtable on Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s *The Ideas That Made America* continues. Sarah E. Naramore explores the links between history of science/medicine & intellectual history in a response to Chapter 2—America and the Transatlantic Enlightenment (1740-1800). thecarryall.org/lets-get-phy...

Today at The Carryall, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra asks "Whose Ideas? Whose America?" in response to Ch 1—World of Empires (Precontact-1740) and Ch 2—America and the Transatlantic Enlightenment (1740-1800) in Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s The Ideas That Made America. thecarryall.org/whose-ideas-...

Today at The Carryall, Aubrey Lauersdorf's "The Ideas that Made Tsenacommacah," a response to Chapter 1—World of Empires (Precontact-1740) in Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s The Ideas That Made America that brings ethnohistory to bear on US intellectual history. thecarryall.org/the-ideas-th...

Today at The Carryall, Joshua L. Crutchfield "Retheorizes Who Theorizes" in our continuing inaugural roundtable of riffs on & responses to Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen's The Ideas That Made America. thecarryall.org/retheorizing...

At The Carryall, David Farber is Out for Blood. Not really, but he is interested in how to connect the abstractions of intellectual history better to questions of social power & force in a response to Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen's The Ideas That Made America. thecarryall.org/out-for-blood/

Today at The Carryall, Roberto Breña responds to Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History with a more hemispheric perspective from outside the US. thecarryall.org/the-unexcept... cc: @susih.bsky.social

Dig in to the inaugural roundtable at The Carryall focused on Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen's 2019 book, The Ideas That Made America. Over 15 writers & scholars offer responses, reflections, riffs & variations to the first survey of US intellectual history in 40 years. thecarryall.org/roundtable/m...

What's Our Bag? An editor's note from @michaeljkramer.bsky.social. thecarryall.org/whats-our-bag/

Welcome to The Carryall, an online journal of US cultural and intellectual history: thecarryall.org.