Andrew Hartman

• Age: 36
• Industry: Education
• Occupation: Historian
• Location: Bloomington : Illinois : United States

About Me

Currently an assistant professor of history at Illinois State University, having earned my Ph.D. in history from the George Washington University, I focus on twentieth-century US history, particularly intellectual, political, and educational history. I wrote a book, "Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). I am currently researching three new projects: "A War for the Soul Of America: A History of the Culture Wars, 1970s-Present"; the intellectual biography of Christopher Lasch, irascible historian and social critic; and a document reader that I'm co-editing with my friend and colleague Touré Reed titled "Civil Rights and the Fight Against 'Social Disorganization:' Underclass Ideology and Liberal Activism and Policy, 1909-2008."

Interests

• intellectual history
• political history
• education
• pedagogy
• critical theory
• Marxism
• leftists politics
• history of conservatism

Favorite Books

• Anything by Slavoj Zizek
• Anything by Karl Marx
• Anything by Terry Eagleton
• Christopher Lasch "The Agony of the American Left"
• Michael Denning "Cultural Front"
• Eric Hobsbawm "Age of Extremes"
• Ellen Schrecker "Many Are the Crimes"
• Philip Roth "I Married a Communist"

My Blogs	Team Members
U.S. Intellectual History	Paul Anderson Mike O'Connor Tim Lacy Raymond J. Haberski, Jr. Julian Nemeth Paul Murphy Sylwester Ratowt Lauren Kientz David Sehat Ben Alpers