ISU History Education

History/Social Science Education at Illinois State University

[Andrew Hartman @HartmanAndrew]

Check us out in a few hours!

[ISU History Education @ISUHistoryEd]

This looks like fantastic PD for Chicago area social studies teachers!

[ISU History Education @ISUHistoryEd]

Congrats to history department chair Dr Ross Kennedy!
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[IllinoisCSS @IllinoisCSS]

IL proposal could require K-12 Latin American history https://t.co/BvL7AxJXOJ

[ISU History Education @ISUHistoryEd]

Congratulations to History Dept Chair Dr Ross Kennedy on being appointed University Professor! https://t.co/Q5vCUwoVK3

[Andrew Hartman @HartmanAndrew]

Join us online for the @NewberryLibrary History of Capitalism seminar this Friday afternoon (3:00 pm CST). We will discuss my brilliant @ISUHistoryEd colleague Camille Cole's paper ("The City is a Garden: Dates, Wealth, Work and Space in Late Ottoman Basra"). https://t.co/h8lEw8y7Yj

[Andrew Hartman @HartmanAndrew]

This Thursday evening I'm giving a lecture at Lewis University in the southwest Chicago Suburbs, if anyone in the area is interested in hearing what I have to say about the culture wars ca. 2026.

[Andrew Hartman @HartmanAndrew]

"Marx’s lifelong study of the American contest over slavery provided an essential fourth pillar of his intellectual biography."

[Andrew Hartman @HartmanAndrew]

The 2026 S-USIH Annual Conference will be held in Madison, Wisconsin, on November 12-14, 2026, on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  The theme is “Intellectual Historians’ Toolkits: Methods, Theories, Practices.” Check out the CFP.
https://t.co/Yy1etU6e11

[Andrew Hartman @HartmanAndrew]

New York City friends, I'm doing a book event at the New School on Monday, March 9, 6:00PM. Would love to see you there. https://t.co/Cx7FUPk3iK

[Research at ISU @ISUResearch]

.@ISUHistoryEd has invited celebrated historian of the U.S. Civil War and the American West Dr. Megan Kate Nelson to speak at 6 p.m. March 19 @IllinoisStateU about "How the Real West was Lost: The Frontier Myth and the Erasure of U.S. Western History."
https://t.co/bNxF2fx9Wm

[Andrew Hartman @HartmanAndrew]

The great Robin Blackburn reviews my book for @thenation.
"In Karl Marx in America, Andrew Hartman provides us with a kaleidoscopic vision of Marxism in the United States in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Responding to Marx’s fiercest critics—Mikhail Bakunin, Friedrich Hayek, Leszek Kołakowski, Isaiah Berlin—as well as his staunchest admirers and collaborators—Engels, Jack London, John Reed, C. Wright Mills, Howard Zinn, and Fredric Jameson—Hartman tells the story of how Marx and his followers “put their stamp” on American life and thought. Taking the Civil War as his starting point for this trenchant survey of the American left, Hartman offers us dozens of portraits of Marxism’s main protagonists—including Eugene Debs, W.E.B. Du Bois, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Louise Bryant, Harry Haywood, Daniel De Leon, Mother Jones, Claude McKay, Oliver C. Cox, and C.L.R. James—and charts their triumphs and travails all the way up to the present."

[ISU History Education @ISUHistoryEd]

The next ISU History Symposium is happening on January 30, 2026! Here is info on submitting a proposal, registering, and the keynote. See you all there!

[Andrew Hartman @HartmanAndrew]

"Hartman is a really clear writer. He sums up Marx and debates about Marx in really clear ways. That’s perfect for post–Cold War generations ready for Marx." @left_voice https://t.co/adBMHIsI7n

[UChicagoPress @UChicagoPress]

Andrew Hartman (@HartmanAndrew )will discuss his new book KARL MARX IN AMERICA with Cedric Johnson at the @SeminaryCoop tomorrow July 22 at 4 pm. A Q&A and book signing will follow the conversation. More info here: https://t.co/gH2eGKoNIx

[Andrew Hartman @HartmanAndrew]

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[Andrew Hartman @HartmanAndrew]

Chicago friends! I'll be in your city next week talking Karl Marx in America. Tuesday, July 22, at the @SeminaryCoop, 4:00 pm. I'll be in conversation with the great Cedric Johnson, Professor of Black Studies and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

[Andrew Hartman @HartmanAndrew]

In short, Karl Marx in America is my humble effort (if a 600-page book can be described as humble!) to help people see past the contradictions of Marxist intellectual history.

[Andrew Hartman @HartmanAndrew]

New job for @RobertFitz74! Uni High got a good one.

[Andrew Hartman @HartmanAndrew]

The title is click-baity but this is good historical analysis by my friend and @ISUHistoryEd colleague Touré Reed.
https://t.co/JJkB3UEMjh