Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen is Merle Curti Associate Professor and Vilas-Borghesi Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches US intellectual and cultural history. She is the author of the prize-wining American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas.
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Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in tur... SEE MORE