Dear historians. I am about to finish my MA in American Studies and am therefore about to lose my access to Jstor. Before this happens I'd like to download a few more for my reading list and library.
So, I'd like to have your suggestions regarding classic articles I should definitely get. My main interests are US Intellectual history and history of economic thought. But any suggestions are welcome! Especially intellectual history or history of ideas of other regions than the US.
Many thanks for your time!
I am not sure what is the level of your initiation into the field of Intellectual History, so if my suggestions seem elementary do let me know. I don't have my material with me at present ---away from home archiving---so I will mention only those which I recall.
Quentin Skinner's Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas is a good starting point. Skinner's essay sets out the methodological debates until that time within the field, and articulates the limits of the enterprise. Another essay that you may find useful is Anthony Grafton's The History of Ideas: Precept and Practice, 1950-2000 and Beyond. Grafton's essay is more a history of the Journal of the History of Ideas but I think it is a useful resource, particularly in situating the intellectual tradition from which the field emerged. Martin Jay in The Missed Encounter between Hayden White and Quentin Skinner offers an interesting comparative reading of Skinner and Hayden White, and teases out certain methodological similarities between the two. If you are interested in the question of Empire within Intellectual History, you could look up this essay by David Armitage, "The International Turn in Intellectual History," where Armitage considers the possibilities (and obstacles) in the turn to the global within Empire Studies.
The links I have provided are to the pdf-versions of the essays; I hope the reddit servers do not block those as spam. If I can think up on any more essays, I shall add later. Hope this helps.
This is an article in rhetoric, not history, but Ernest Wrage's "Public Address: A Study in Social and Intellectual History" (Quarterly Journal of Speech, 33, 4, 451-45 in the EBSCO database) might interest you.