ISU History Education

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…

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/andrewhartmanm…

.@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." news.illinoisstate.edu/2026/01/guest-…

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."

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!

"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…

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: buff.ly/jTSJENP

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.

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.

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

The title is click-baity but this is good historical analysis by my friend and @ISUHistoryEd colleague Touré Reed. jacobin.com/2025/06/harris…

Two ISU historians in the wilds of Berlin.

A surreal moment when these showed up in the mail last week. Thanks to @UNC_Press @Lucas_Church @BedenbaughT for all their work to see this through to fruition. And always thanks to @HartmanAndrew for the support. #punk

I went on the American Campus Podcast hosted by @llassabe, a great new podcast about the social & political history of higher education, to talk about my book Karl Marx in America, specifically chapter 8: "Theorist: Academia in the Age of Reagan." buzzsprout.com/2396665/episod…

Some artwork that @rightaboutnow2 was inspired to do by @HartmanAndrew's crack about "Karl Marx, Texas Ranger" during our discussion last night about Andrew's fascinating book "Karl Marx in America":

On the occasion of Karl Marx's birthday, I will send a free, signed copy of my new book, "Karl Marx in America," to a randomly selected person. To be entered in the drawing, simply retweet. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

This was a fun conversation.