Illinois history teacher friends. Check out our symposium!

This would be a huge honor no matter what. But coming from @Ideas_History, my community of scholars my entire career (I've never missed an annual meeting), it means that much more. Congratulations to co-winner Jarvis C. McInnis, author of "Afterlives of the Plantation." @UChicagoPress s-usih.org/2026/06/2026-s-us…

Check us out in a few hours!

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"). newberry.org/calendar/camill…

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.

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

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. s-usih.org/2026/02/s-usih-20…

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. event.newschool.edu/andrewha…

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."

"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 leftvoice.org/reading-marx-i…

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.