American Studies @ Northumbria

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📆 Reminder that @officialbaas.bsky.social is holding an online roundtable next Fri 27 Feb on *Teaching Sustainability in American Studies*

👭 With S. Palmer (NottinghamTrent), R. Hermann (Cardiff), D. McLaughlin (UEA), yours truly+chaired by F. Hines

✏️ Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

Delegates from the HOTCUS, 2024 Annual Conference at Southampton University

The CfP is now open for the 2026 HOTCUS Annual Conference (University of Manchester, 1-3 July 2026).

Please email all submissions to events.hotcus@gmail.com by midnight, UK time on 25 March, 2026.

From one @lsupress.bsky.social author of Irish Americans in the Civil War to another - absolute pleasure to review @irishacw.bsky.social’s book!

Jobs and Vacancies

Now accepting applications for the John G Winant Visiting Professor role within the RAI at Oxford for 2027-28, 2028-29 and 2029-30- Details here: www.rai.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

Drama on 4 - 1776 - Episode 1 (Story of America) - BBC Sounds Star-studded drama for the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence.

BBC Radio 4 are marking the USA's semiquincentennial with a two-part adaptation of the musical '1776' (the most successful musical about the American Revolution not written by Lin-Manuel Miranda). Starring Alfred Molina as Benjamin Franklin(!). Listen to Part 1 here. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

CfP: One week left to get your proposals in! 👇

Awards - British Association for American Studies Each year, BAAS offers a growing list of awards, prizes, teaching assistantships, and research assistance awards. In recent years, we have added new essay awards for students of colour at school,…

🏆 Good news - the submission window has been extended to 6th January for multiple BAAS Awards including...

* School Essay Award
* Undergraduate & Postgraduate Essay Awards
* Teaching Development Awards

Learn more & make your submission here:

Have you got a new book out about Irish America? Regardless of discipline, if it came out in 2025, you can submit it to the ACIS Lawrence McCaffrey Prize for Books on Irish America! You need to fill out the form on this website and the books need to be sent by 1 January!
acisweb.org/mccaffrey-pr...

Hi #skystorians 👋

I'm hoping to put together a panel for the SHA 2026 Annual Meeting. My paper would analyse Dwight Eisenhower's 1962 visit to South Carolina and assess his (post-presidential) relationship with southern Republicanism.

If that fits with your panel ideas, please do get in touch! 🗃️

The Hobo A panoramic history of America’s first climate migrants

I regret to inform you that I am going to start promoting my book on here. I do not regret to inform you that the press has given it a stunning cover.

The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants -- out next summer with Princeton University Press.

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846 Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846

This book (and all others by @edinburghup.bsky.social) are half price this weekend from their website: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-frederi...

Only Connect team, three white men with brown hair (one bearded, one moustachioed, one clean shaven) considering two clues in the first round. For 3 points, the first two clues are "Ward in Nottingham" and "Street in Birmingham."

I was very smug at having got this one last night at 3 points until they revealed the third clue and I realised the answer wasn't "American Studies academics at Northumbria and the cities where they've presented conference papers."

Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861-1865 Damian Shiels joins Myles to discuss the Irishmen who fought for the Union in the American Civil War; and whose stories are revealed in forgotten U.S. pension files.

For anyone who wants to have a listen to my RTE History Show chat last night about the 250,000 Irish Americans who served in the U.S. military during the Civil War, you can now listen to that section of the show here: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Modjeska Monteith Simkins and black female leadership: propriety, politics, place and periodization in the African American freedom struggle Modjeska Monteith Simkins was one of the most significant voices in the struggle for African American rights in South Carolina during the twentieth century. For a decade, starting in the mid-1960s,...

Delighted to see my open access article on Modjeska Simkins and Black Female Leadership appear in a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice honouring Richard H. King - a fine historian and wonderful man. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣The Call for Papers for our 2026 Winter Symposium, The American Nation in the Twentieth Century: The Declaration of Independence at 250, is now open

University of Liverpool, 27 February 2026

🚨 One week left to apply for the Peter Parish Dissertation Prize!

www.branch.org.uk/parishdisser...

Great to see President Trump has been reading @elsadevienne.bsky.social's award-winning book, "Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles" and has been reflecting on the history of the "beach body." global.oup.com/academic/pro...

If you'd like to read Elsa's award-winning book 'Sand Rush,' you can get your copy here.
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Congratulations to our colleague @elsadevienne.bsky.social on winning this year's W. Turrentine Jackson Award from the Western History Association! 🍾🏆⛱️

A nice job has opened in my department at Cambridge: Assistant Prof. in US History since 1920.

Please share widely!

No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

A young woman sits at a stall, turned towards the camera and smiling. The desk in front of her has a purple tablecloth and is covered in society material and swag (stickers, Haribo, etc). Behind her is a panel with a large sign reading "History Society."

The Northumbria History Society is recruiting new members for the year ahead! Find their stall in the city campus Students' Union (in Escape).

a white woman brandishes a plastic salt bag (used by fishermen) at the Texas Senate

👩 Meet Linda Maraniss
⭐ In 1986, she visited Padre Island National Seashore, in Texas.
🏖️ She expected a beach.
🤢 She found a landfill.
▶️ Listen to ep 2 of our "Early Heroines of Plastic Pollution" series to find out what happened afterwards
tinyurl.com/4xsvnbv3
#InternationalCoastalCleanup

History Roundtable on US Universities and the State: Episodes from the Twentieth Century This roundtable explores four historical episodes in the history of state–university relations in the United States. In doing so, it addresses issues that also figure prominently in present-day debat...

From the latest issue of 'History' (@hisjournalha.bsky.social): a roundtable on 'US Universities and the State: Perspectives from the Twentieth Century' w/ contributions from @kateballantyne.bsky.social, @tomasirish.bsky.social, @charle.bsky.social, and Christopher P. Loss.
doi.org/10.1111/1468...

WASN Chair - Call for Expressions of Interest - British Association for American Studies Women in American Studies Network is seeking a new Chair or Co-Chairs to carry on the crucial work of this network in the current Transatlantic political climate. Please submit your EoI to…

BAAS Wants You.

There is still time to register your interest in a role as chair (or co-chair) of our Women in American Studies Network (WASN).

Get in touch before 1st September -

Absolutely delighted to receive this award that will support my research trip to New York! Massive thanks to @hotcus.bsky.social 🙌🏼

Poster for the GREEN BAAS double book launch event, "Energy for What? Ideas and Ideologies in US Environmental History," Thur 26 June, 3-4pm GMT. Featured authors: Rebecca K. Wright (Moral Energy in America) and Pollyanna Rhee (Natural Attachments).

This Thursday (26.06, 3pm BST), GREEN BAAS (@officialbaas.bsky.social) will be hosting a double book launch via Zoom - ‘Energy for What? Ideas and Ideologies in US environmental history’ - featuring our colleague Rebecca Wright (@rebwright.bsky.social). Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Big day for awards! Congratulations to our PhD candidate, Paula Murphy (@paula-murphy.bsky.social) who has won a 2025 Doctoral and EC Research Award from @hotcus.bsky.social to support work in NYC for her project, ‘Whatever Happened to Unity? Co-Curation and Resistance in Hip Hop’s First Decade.'

SAND RUSH has won a prize 😃🏖️!
Many thanks to all the colleagues at UEA+the Arthur Miller Institute for their hard work championing new research in American studies🇺🇸!
This prize is a collective Northumbria AMS win: the book was made so much better just from hanging out with my smart colleagues 💜

If you're still looking for a beach read this summer, you can buy your copy here! global.oup.com/academic/pro...