Author: Vincent Calvagno

Vincent Calvagno is an undergraduate history major in the Adelphi University Honors College who is currently researching religiopolitical resistance theory in the American Revolution. He plans on attending graduate school and hopes to apply his passion for intellectual history by enrolling in a PhD program. While his first work, “Lincoln’s Language: Evolutionary Excerpts” (For the People 23, no. 3, [2021]), focused on mid-nineteenth-century presidential rhetoric, his recent archival work has drawn him to the manuscripts of earlier and lesser-known Americans. By studying pre-1800 America, he aims to uncover connections between historical thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Hamilton, the Humanist: Philosophical Collision in Federalist No. 6

In December 2023, intellectual history lost one of its greatest innovators: J. G. A. Pocock. Professor Pocock, who dedicated his life to reconstructing the relationship between written text and historical context, leaves behind a body of work that has dramatically altered our understanding of Atlantic political thought. Underpinning much of his scholarship is a strong […]

by Vincent Calvagno