Introduction: opening American thought / James T. Kloppenberg
What was the American enlightenment? / Caroline Winterer
The "woman question" in the age of mass democracy: from movement history to problem history / Leslie Butler
"We people of color": colored cosmopolitanism and the borders of race / Nico Slate
Curating the Black atlantic / Jonathan Holloway
The sins of slaves and the slaves of sin: toward a history of moral agency / Margaret Abruzzo
Nationalism and cosmopolitan humanity in mid-nineteenth-century American political science / Duncan Kelly
The political origins of global justice / Samuel Moyn
Unstiffening theory: the Italian magic pragmatists and William James / Francesca Bordogna
The longing for wisdom in twentieth-century US thought / Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
Pain, analytical philosophy, and American intellectual history / Joel Isaac
On lying: writing philosophical history after the enlightenment and after Arendt / Sophia Rosenfeld
Science and religion in postwar America / Andrew Jewett
Religion within the bounds of democracy alone: Habermas, Rawls, and the trans-Atlantic debate over public reason / Peter Gordon
Christianity and its American fate: where history interrogates secularization theory / David Hollinger
Paths in the social history of ideas / Daniel T. Rodgers
Toward a free-range intellectual history / Sarah Igo
New directions, then and now / Angus Burgin
Afterword / Michael O'Brien.
