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Thursday, March 8, 2018

International Women’s Day: Emily Greene Balch

International Women’s Day: Emily Greene Balch The New York Times today has run a series called “Overlooked”—15 women who deserve but never received obituaries in the New York Times. Although Emily Greene Balch was one American woman who did receive recognition in the Times when she died in 1961, she remains a remarkably overlooked figure... More

Thursday, February 1, 2018

CFP: Socialism and Democracy in W. E. B. Du Bois’ Life, Thought, and Legacy

The 150th anniversary of W. E. B. Du Bois’ birth, 2018, offers an opportune moment to reflect on his remarkable life and legacy in light of his specific commitments to socialism and democracy. Moreover, the current political moment calls on activists/scholars to explore how Du Bois’ socialist and Marxist commitments can inform our praxis.... More

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Seven new books in American Studies you might want to read

Because the American Studies field is exceptionally prolific (and the market for apposite books in the U.S. is unusually large), it is impossible to do more than pick and choose a few new titles each month that might cross disciplinary boundaries and showcase some of the latest scholarship. Here are a few recent titles... More

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Second CFP: Making a Republic Imperial, a conference on empire, imperialism, and colonialism in the early American republic

CALL FOR PAPERS: Making a Republic Imperial Philadelphia, 28-30 March 2019   The McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Program in Early American Economy andSociety at the Library Company of Philadelphia invite proposals for Making a Republic Imperial,a conference on empire, imperialism, and colonialism in the early American... More

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

CFP: 11th Annual Graduate Conference on North American Studies, Berlin, June 7-8, 2018. Following the Yellow Brick Road? Challenging Approaches to Progress in North America

11th Annual Graduate Conference Following the Yellow Brick Road? Challenging Approaches to Progress in North America Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, June 7-8, 2018 Notions of progress have remained pivotal to North American identities and academia. Discussions range from how “progress” may be evaluated... More

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era special issue on John Dewey’s Democracy and Education

The latest issue of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era is out: a special issue reassessing John Dewey, "Democracy and Education."  All articles are open access until January 15, 2018. You can find the entire issue at: Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era But here is the table of contents... More

Saturday, October 14, 2017

CFP: Making a Republic Imperial (deadline January 15, 2018)

CFP: Making a Republic Imperial by Emily Conroy-Krutz CALL FOR PAPERS: Making a Republic Imperial Philadelphia, 28-30 March 2019 The McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia invite proposals for Making a Republic Imperial, a conference on empire,... More

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

CFP: Coming to Terms? Confronting War and Peace through the Visual and Material in the Atlantic World, 1651-1865

Conference at the University of Pennsylvania, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, and The University of Delaware 8 – 10 November 2018 Keynote Speaker: Professor Leora Auslander, University of Chicago Program Committee: Dr Zara Anishanslin (University of Delaware), Dr Manuel Barcia, (University of Leeds), Professor Kathy Brown, (University... More

Saturday, September 9, 2017

Call for Contributors for October 2017 Issue on “The Road to Charlottesville”, The Activist History Review

America’s past is peppered with white supremacist figures and movements. These have often merged the language of equality with virulent racism to undermine equality in practice. From southern resistance to Reconstruction through the breakup of Jim Crow legal segregation, white supremacists have engaged in a multitude of tactics, violent or... More

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Has recovery run out of steam? Perspectives from the black nineteenth century

Roundtable Description In the introduction to a 2015 special issue of Social Text on “The Question of Recovery: Slavery, Freedom, and the Archive,” guest editors Laura Helton, Justin Leroy, Max Mishler, Samantha Seeley, and Shauna Sweeney posit that scholars of Atlantic slavery and freedom “cannot resolve the tension between recovering... More

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

CFP: European and British Associations for American Studies April 2018 conference, deadline October 1, 2017

CFP: European and British Associations for American Studies The 32nd European Association for American Studies and 63rd British Association for American Studies Conference 4-7 April 2018 King’s College London, University College London and the British Library Keynote Speakers: Bettye Collier-Thomas (Temple University), Jo Gill (University of... More

Sunday, August 27, 2017

Power and humanity: contesting notions of human rights and humanitarianism in North America • Two-Day Workshop, September 18-19, 2017 at Carleton University

As a critical part of the growing partnership between the John-F-Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies at the Free University in Berlin, Carleton will be hosting a two-day workshop devoted to the further development of our common research interests, and the construction of an International Research Training Group or IRTG. The theme of the... More

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