David A Hollinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 226719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David A Hollinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | David A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hollinger |
| SIGNATURE | HOLLINGER D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 96 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 302 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 96 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The Evangelical Capture of the Republican Party and Its Implications for Academia
For the first time in American history, a major political party has a vested interest in keeping the electorate's education level relatively low. This is largely the result of the Republican Party's capture by one of its clients: the White evangelical Protestant population with anti-intellectual tendencies. In this political environment, academics must resist the understandable temptation to go beyond the traditional missions of truth-seeking and…
From Hofstadter to Lepore: National History for the American Public
Nick Witham's Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America provides cogent and accurate accounts of the careers of five American academic historians of the post-World War II era who won large popular audiences for national narratives: Richard Hofstadter, Daniel Boorstin, John Hope Franklin, Howard Zinn, and Gerda Lerner. Witham omits, without explanation, the highly relevant case of Oscar Handlin, author of the 19…
De l'identité à la solidarité
Combien devons-nous à « nos semblables » - quelle que soit la signification que nous donnons à ce terme - et combien aux « étrangers », au reste de l'humanité ? Le problème de la solidarité s'annonce comme le problème décisif du XXI e siècle. Pourtant, la vogue actuelle du terme « identité » en occulte souvent la centralité. L'objet de cet article est de pointer à la fois la profondeur et l'ubiquité du problème de la solidarité, et de suggérer qu…
Christianity's American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular
National Culture and Communities of Descent
An Episcopalian in Samoa: Review of Elesha J. Coffman, Margaret Mead: A Twentieth Century Faith
An Episcopalian in Samoa: Review of Elesha J. Coffman, Margaret Mead: A Twentieth Century Faith.." Women's Studies, 50(7), pp. 766–767
Guard of Honor against Misogyny and White Supremacy
No critical study of James Gould Cozzens or of the American literature of his generation has ever quoted this description of the life that a smart, sensitive, educated woman of the mid-1940s was ob
Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Solidarity
A Double Whammy for the History of Evangelical Protestantism
Most histories fail to convincingly explain why 81 percent of American white evangelical voters supported Trump in the 2016 election. Many scholars, like political pundits, hold an idealized vision of the evangelical past, which leads them to assume that “real” evangelicals are actually not so enthusiastic about the deeply anti-intellectual, frankly authoritarian, materialistic, and sexually promiscuous media personality who won the White House. …
Elizabeth A. Clark, The Fathers Refounded: Protestant Liberalism, Roman Catholic Modernism, and the Teaching of Ancient Christianity in Early Twentieth-Century America
Lady Bountiful, Unashamed
Within its relatively narrow scope, this magnificently documented study of the largest of the global humanitarian projects of American Protestants in the 1890s and 1900s demonstrates that government officials of that era were happy to work with religious groups, and that philanthropy and global engagement were not limited to wealthy elites. Hundreds of thousands of churchgoers believed in a national mission to diminish the suffering experienced b…
Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence by Bruce Robbins
Research Article| April 01 2019 Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence by Bruce Robbins Robbins, Bruce, Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012), 247 pp. David A. Hollinger David A. Hollinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 419. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7312261 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share F…
The Global South, Christianity, and Secularization: Insider and Outsider Perspectives
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Charles Capper, Romantic America, and Intellectual History
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Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America
Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence
Book Review| August 01 2014 Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence Robbins, Bruce, Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012), 247 pp. David A. Hollinger David A. Hollinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (3): 497–498. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2732880 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Li…
After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History
The role of liberalized, ecumenical Protestantism in American history has too often been obscured by the more flamboyant and orthodox versions of the faith that oppose evolution, embrace narrow conceptions of family values, and continue to insist that the United States should be understood as a Christian nation. This book examines how liberal Protestant thinkers struggled to embrace modernity, even at the cost of yielding much of the symbolic cap…
After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History
Reinhold Niebuhr and His Circle of Influence
This reverent, detailed, and highly focused book illuminates Reinhold Niebuhr's relationship with seven prominent contemporaries. Largely on the basis of private correspondence, Daniel F. Rice sets before us the great theologian's back-and-forth interaction with John Dewey, Felix Frankfurter, George Kennan, Hans Morgenthau, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Norman Thomas, and Paul Tillich. While conscientious in identifying and seeking to clarify Niebuh…
What Is Our “Canon”? How American Intellectual Historians Debate the Core of Their Field
These selected excerpts from a conversation now running nearly a quarter-century about The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook exemplify the efforts made by specialists in American intellectual history to decide just what constitutes the core of their field. An anthology designed for undergraduates has practical limitations, to be sure, that prevent its table of contents from ever serving as a complete map of a field. Specific research …
The Accommodation of Protestant Christianity with the Enlightenment: An Old Drama Still Being Enacted
Throughout its history, the United States has been a major site for the accommodation of Protestant Christianity with the Enlightenment. This accommodation has been driven by two closely related but distinct processes: the demystification of religion's cognitive claims by scientific advances, exemplified by the Higher Criticism in Biblical scholarship and the Darwinian revolution in natural history; and the demographic diversification of society,…
The Unity of Knowledge and the Diversity of Knowers: Science as an Agent of Cultural Integration in the United States Between the Two World Wars
During the 1930s the émigré philosophers of the Vienna Circle launched an ambitious program to create a more scientific culture, but they proved to be largely blind to indigenous American efforts along similar lines. Those scholars who study the Vienna Circle have too often ignored the intellectual power and broad appeal of these American efforts as led by John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, Morris Cohen, and Sinclair Lewis. The émigrés developed as th…
The Concept of Post-Racial: How Its Easy Dismissal Obscures Important Questions
Nearly all of today's confident dismissals of the notion of a “post-racial” America address the simple question, “Are we beyond racism or not?” But most of the writers who have used the terms post-racial or post-ethnic sympathetically have explored other questions: What is the significance of the blurring of ethnoracial lines through cross-group marriage and reproduction? How should we interpret the relatively greater ability of immigrant blacks …
After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Ecumenical Protestantism and the Modern American Encounter with Diversity
The life of human beings today “is cast in a multicultural context,” wrote the great comparativist Wilfred Cantwell Smith in 1960. “Every community on earth is becoming a minority in a complexity of diverse groups,” he continued. In this “age of minorities,” no particular “we” can any longer credibly claim superiority to any “they.” The most defensible solidarity is now “humanity itself,” insisted Smith, who then identified Christians, capitalist…
The Realist-Pacifist Summit Meeting of March 1942 and the Political Reorientation of Ecumenical Protestantism in the United States
I hope that the matter of the agreement not to discuss the war can be satisfactorily clarified," Walter M. Horton wrote to the office of the Federal Council of Churches in November of 1941, referring to a meeting of several hundred liberal Protestant leaders the FCC was planning for the following March. "I found some questioning about it" at a recent meeting of peace advocates, some of whom, Horton continued, expressed fear that if they went to t…
Science as a Weapon in Kulturkampfe in the United States during and after World War II
Diversity and Its Discontents: Cultural Conflict and Common Ground in Contemporary American Society
Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History
Not Universalists, Not Pluralists: The New Cosmopolitans Find Their Own Way
After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Ecumenical Protestantism and the Modern American Encounter with Diversity
The life of human beings today “is cast in a multicultural context,” wrote the great comparativist Wilfred Cantwell Smith in 1960. “Every community on earth is becoming a minority in a complexity of diverse groups,” he continued. In this “age of minorities,” no particular “we” can any longer credibly claim superiority to any “they.” The most defensible solidarity is now “humanity itself,” insisted Smith, who then identified Christians, capitalist…
The one drop rule & the one hate rule
Daedalus Winter 2005 Two portentous practices within the public discussion of ‘race’ in the United States since the late 1960s are rarely analyzed together. One is the method by which we decide which individuals are ‘black.’ The other is our habit of conflating the mistreatment of blacks with that of nonblack minorities. Both practices compress a great range of phenomena into ostensibly manageable containers. Both function to keep the concept of …
Amalgamation and Hypodescent: The Question of Ethnoracial Mixture in the History of the United States
Journal Article Amalgamation and Hypodescent: The Question of Ethnoracial Mixture in the History of the United States Get access David A. Hollinger David A. Hollinger Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 108, Issue 5, December 2003, Pages 1363–1390, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/108.5.1363 Published: 01 December 2003
The Concept of Post-Racial: How Its Easy Dismissal Obscures Important Questions
Nearly all of today's confident dismissals of the notion of a “post-racial” America address the simple question, “Are we beyond racism or not?” But most of the writers who have used the terms post-racial or post-ethnic sympathetically have explored other questions: What is the significance of the blurring of ethnoracial lines through cross-group marriage and reproduction? How should we interpret the relatively greater ability of immigrant blacks …
From identity to solidarity
Obama, the Instability of Color Lines, and the Promise of a Postethnic Future
Obama, the Instability of Color Lines, and the Promise of a Postethnic Future* David A. Hollinger (bio) The focus of media depictions of Barack Obama as a "post-racial," "post-black" or "postethnic" candidate is usually limited to two aspects of his presidential campaign. First is his self-presentation with minimal references to his color. Unlike Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, whose presidential candidacies were more directed at the significance o…
Free Enterprise and Free Inquiry: The Emergence of Laissez-Faire Communitarianism in the Ideology of Science in the United States
David A. Hollinger, Free Enterprise and Free Inquiry: The Emergence of Laissez-Faire Communitarianism in the Ideology of Science in the United States, New Literary History, Vol. 21, No. 4, Papers from the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change (Autumn, 1990), pp. 897-919
Ethnic Diversity, Cosmopolitanism and the Emergence of the American Liberal Intelligentsia
would enable the United States to develop a style of life and thought more fulfilling than that of any of the single, national cultures of Europe and America. Exactly at the point in history when the majority of native-born Americans were the most anxious about the cultural effects of massive immigration from Eastern and Central Europe, Bourne depicted this immigration as a unique opportunity for Americans to liberate themselves from parochialism…
Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States
Book Review| July 01 2005 Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States, Nancy Foner and George Fredrickson. David A. Hollinger David A. Hollinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) …
National Culture and Communities of Descent
National Culture and Communities of Descent David A. Hollinger (bio) Descent and nationality have never had an easy time with one another in the era of the modern nation-state. Descent and nationality generate their own solidarities, overlapping but almost never co-terminus, each making claims of contingent intensity and range upon each other and upon individuals. The tension between descent and nationality has been an especially prominent featur…
The Problem of Pragmatism in American History
Journal Article The Problem of Pragmatism in American History Get access David A. Hollinger David A. Hollinger professor of history University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 1, June 1980, Pages 88–107, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900442 Published: 01 June 1980
Rich, Powerful, and Smart: Jewish Overrepresentation Should Be Explained Instead of Avoided or Mystified
The "Secularization" Question and the United States in the Twentieth Century
Why have secular outlooks made so little headway in the United States in the twentieth century? Why did the Congress of the United States impeach Bill Clinton in 1998? Why have so many medical doctors in the United States been intimidated into refusing to provide abortion services to women? Might the answers to these three questions be the same
Objectivity is Not Neutrality: Explanatory Schemes in History
Journal Article Objectivity Is Not Neutrality: Explanatory Schemes in History. By Thomas L. Haskell. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. x, 426 pp. $35.95, ISBN 0-8018-5681-7.) Get access David A. Hollinger David A. Hollinger University of California, Berkeley, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1556–1557, https://doi.…
Authority, Solidarity, and the Political Economy of Identity: The Case of the United States
Theorists of nationalism tend to circle around the United States like boy scouts who have spotted a clump of poison oak. The nationalism of the United States has figured small in the robust and wide-ranging discourse about nationalism that has involved sociologists, historians, political scientists, philosophers, and literary scholars during the past two decades. Although there are significant exceptions to this pattern of avoidance--David Miller…
American Ethnoracial History and the Amalgamation Narrative
Research Article| July 01 2006 American Ethnoracial History and the Amalgamation Narrative David A. Hollinger David A. Hollinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2006) 25 (4): 153–159. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501751 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David A. Hollinger; American Ethnoracial History and the Amalgamation Na…
Science and Anarchy: Walter Lippmann's Drift and Mastery
Of many young Americans still moved by Dover Beach in early twentieth century, none was more adamantly and publicly opposed to nostalgia and traditionalism of Matthew Arnold than was Walter Lippmann. In Drift and Mastery, Lippmann condescendingly declared inherited culture so moribund that additional attacks on it would be arcane. Yet even in this book of 1914 Lippmann soberly endorsed Arnold's vision of ignorant armies, and his lament for lost c…
After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History
Reinhold Niebuhr and His Circle of Influence
This reverent, detailed, and highly focused book illuminates Reinhold Niebuhr's relationship with seven prominent contemporaries. Largely on the basis of private correspondence, Daniel F. Rice sets before us the great theologian's back-and-forth interaction with John Dewey, Felix Frankfurter, George Kennan, Hans Morgenthau, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Norman Thomas, and Paul Tillich. While conscientious in identifying and seeking to clarify Niebuh…
What Is Our “Canon”? How American Intellectual Historians Debate the Core of Their Field
These selected excerpts from a conversation now running nearly a quarter-century about The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook exemplify the efforts made by specialists in American intellectual history to decide just what constitutes the core of their field. An anthology designed for undergraduates has practical limitations, to be sure, that prevent its table of contents from ever serving as a complete map of a field. Specific research …
The Unity of Knowledge and the Diversity of Knowers: Science as an Agent of Cultural Integration in the United States Between the Two World Wars
During the 1930s the émigré philosophers of the Vienna Circle launched an ambitious program to create a more scientific culture, but they proved to be largely blind to indigenous American efforts along similar lines. Those scholars who study the Vienna Circle have too often ignored the intellectual power and broad appeal of these American efforts as led by John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, Morris Cohen, and Sinclair Lewis. The émigrés developed as th…
Perry Miller and Philosophical History
Pastmasters: Some Essays on American Historians
The Enemy Within
Survival by Critical Selection in the Natural History of Art and Letters
VERY generation produces many more works of art, literature, and criticism than it absorbs into its living culture and seeks to pass on to later generations. And every modern, literate generation confronts, through recorded history it inherits, many more examples of what was found pleasing in other times and places than it will choose to preserve as either a classic (a work still able to speak directly to readers and beholders) or a historic mome…
Ethnic Diversity, Cosmopolitanism and the Emergence of the American Liberal Intelligentsia
would enable the United States to develop a style of life and thought more fulfilling than that of any of the single, national cultures of Europe and America. Exactly at the point in history when the majority of native-born Americans were the most anxious about the cultural effects of massive immigration from Eastern and Central Europe, Bourne depicted this immigration as a unique opportunity for Americans to liberate themselves from parochialism…
The New York Mind
Call it Sleep
Morris R. Cohen and the Scientific Ideal
Journal Article Morris R. Cohen and the Scientific Ideal. By David A. Hollinger. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1975. xvi + 262 pp. Illustration, notes, and index. $14.95.) Get access Edward A. Purcell, Jr. Edward A. Purcell, Jr. University of Missouri, Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 63, Issue 3, December 1976, Pages 763–764, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887439 Published: …
Changing Perspectives in the History of Science. Essays in Honour of Joseph Needham
Ideology and Utopia in the United States, 1956-1976
Morris R. Cohen and the Scientific Ideal
Science and Anarchy: Walter Lippmann's Drift and Mastery
Of many young Americans still moved by Dover Beach in early twentieth century, none was more adamantly and publicly opposed to nostalgia and traditionalism of Matthew Arnold than was Walter Lippmann. In Drift and Mastery, Lippmann condescendingly declared inherited culture so moribund that additional attacks on it would be arcane. Yet even in this book of 1914 Lippmann soberly endorsed Arnold's vision of ignorant armies, and his lament for lost c…
Morris R. Cohen and the Scientific Ideal
Journal Article Morris R. Cohen and the Scientific Ideal Get access Hollinger David A., Morris R. Cohen and the Scientific Ideal. Cambridge, Massachusetts. The MIT Press, 1975. xvi, 262 pp. $14.95. David Wigdor David Wigdor Specialist 20th Century Political History, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 21, Issue 2, April 1977, Pa…
The Formation of the American Scientific Community: The American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1848-1860. Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
The Emergence of Professional Social Science: The American Social Science Association and the Nineteenth-Century Crisis of Authority
Thomas L. Haskell's The Emergence of Professional Social Science signaled beginning of his distinguished career as a historian of ideas and critic of historical logic. His first book, now available in this paperback edition with a new preface by author, explores background and premises of American Social Science Association (ASSA)-the first American group dedicated to scientific study of humanity and society. Haskell thus helps us to understand a…
The Perils of Professionalism
The Rise of American Philosophy: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930
Journal Article The Rise of American Philosophy: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860–1930. By Bruce Kuklick. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. xxvii + 674 pp. Illustrations, charts, appendixes, notes, essay on sources, and index. $17.95.) Get access David A. Hollinger David A. Hollinger University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 3, December 1978, …
The Confidence Man
What is Darwinism? It is Calvinism
The Problem of Pragmatism in American History
Journal Article The Problem of Pragmatism in American History Get access David A. Hollinger David A. Hollinger professor of history University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 1, June 1980, Pages 88–107, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900442 Published: 01 June 1980
On Science and American Society The Organization of Knowledge in Modern America, 1860-1920 . Alexandra Oleson , John Voss The Sciences in the American Context: New Perspectives . Nathan Reingold
Social Darwinism: Science and Myth in Anglo-American Social Thought . Robert C. Bannister
Into the Dark: Hannah Arendt and Totalitarianism
Journal Article Into the Dark: Hannah Arendt and Totahtahanism. By Stephen J. Whitfield. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980. xii + 338 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $18.95.) Get access David A. Hollinger David A. Hollinger University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 2, September 1981, Pages 444–445, https://doi.org/10.2307/1890067 Pub…
American Intellectual History: Issues for the 1980s
The study of now confronts a series of opportunities and dilemmas that are too often obscured by the tendency of historiographical discussion to dwell on such ephemeral issues as this field's relative status in the profession, the morale of its practitioners, and the exact location of its boundaries with other fields. Basic to all three of these distractions is a lamentable preoccupation with professional rather than challenges. Challenges of the…
The Rosenberg File: A Search for the Truth
Journal Article The Rosenberg File: A Search for the Truth. By Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983. xv + 608 pp. Illustration, appendix, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $22.50.) Get access David A. Hollinger David A. Hollinger University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 1, June 1984, Pages 172–173, http…
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