HI 374:US Intellectual History 1900 to Present

This video is a February 27, 1997 interview of Henry Louis Gates Jr., Nellie McKay, and Jamaica Kincaid. As discussed in class and noted in ...

George Kennan: "Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics. It m...

This is a video that recounts the Chipko Movement. The Chipko Movement began in India in 1974 in which activists following Gandhian non-viol...

In 1983 Allan Bloom gave a lecture at Boston College on the importance of Nietzsche in American society. Bloom focused his lecture on how Ni...

http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/1996/4/1996_4_28.shtml In the article "Whose Dome is it Anyway?" Alex Soojung...

While not technically an American, he was brought up in class, and I am therefore going to assume he is fair game. Ludwig Wittgenstein was ...

by Katherine Hayes American intellectual and author Susan Sontag was born in New York City in 1933. Sontag began writing at a time ...