Lots of fun giving a lecture on the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement for AIM High A Level students this morning alongside some cool historians @emilybrady.bsky.social @davidolusoga.bsky.social
New Episode Alert! There was almost a world in which there was no Jane Austen. Or at the very least, no Jane Austen novels. No Pride and Prejudice. No Sense and Sensibility. In today’s episode, we explore Jane’s brush with death and the unusual cast of women who shaped her literary interests.
Never hurts for BrANCH historians to peer over the borders of the long 19th Century…
And it looks like the IHR North American History seminar has an interesting talk this Thursday, with @emilybrady.bsky.social discussing “Black Women's Photographic Portraiture in Independent Studios, 1920s-1960s”
It is impossible to properly calculate the depth and breadth of the courage and sacrifice of those prepared to confront white supremacy and assert their right to full citizenship.
We - and by that I mean ALL Americans - owe them a great debt. Rest in Peace & Power Claudette Colvin.
Excited to see my book, 'I Felt All This': Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South, is up on CUP's website - coming out in July 2026! www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
🔔 We have extended the deadline for Targeted Research Panel funding until Friday 28th November.
What's TRP funding? Each conference, we award up to £5000 funding for panels which aim to support & promote the production of research by people of colour, LGBTQ+ communities & disability communities.
I am heartbroken and horrified that the department where I received my PhD is under threat of closure. This is a dynamic and welcoming community that is at the forefront of American Studies in the UK. I encourage everyone to sign the below petition and rally behind our colleagues in Nottingham.
📨 You are invited to our annual conference. BAAS 2026 will be held at the University of Glasgow in April 2026 🎉
Proposals are welcomed for papers, panels, & roundtables. Creative departures from the traditional panel format are encouraged. These should be shared by 28th November.
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The CFP for the @officialbaas.bsky.social Annual Conference is now live! Join us at the @uofglasgow.bsky.social in April 2026 to mark the 250-year anniversary of 1776, with amazing keynote speakers already lined up!
Deadline: Friday 28th November 2025
baas.ac.uk/conferences/...
We’re advertising for a 30 month postdoc position in US Politics (very broadly construed).
The role is mainly research, but allows the holder to gain experience teaching UK and US undergraduates. Happy to answer any and all questions.
Application deadline 27/10. (Start date early 2026.)
Ruby Bridges, age 6
Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her school
Norman Rockwell's painting "The Problem We All Live With," depicting the event originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964, issue of Look magazine.
Ruby Bridge talking to President Obama as they look at Rockwell's painting when it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.
Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools.
She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama.
The past isn’t past.
This week I start a new job as a two-year Departmental Lecturer in American History! I'll continue to be based at @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social and be starting at @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social. Excited to get back into the classroom after three years of research!
📣 Calling Am Studies postgrads
Submissions are now being accepted for the BAAS Postgraduate Symposium, entitled The Unequal Struggle for Equality & Rights in America.
The event will take place at Teesside University on 29 November 2025.
Proposals are invited before 22 August.
WE ARE HIRING @edgehist.bsky.social!!! For a PERMANENT American historian (broadly defined). Quite a tight turnaround (institutional processes) but no internal candidate/nefarious intent. GORGEOUS campus, lovely team, amazing students. APPLY! #skystorians 🗃️
jobs.edgehill.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Congratulations Simon! I can't wait to read it!
Happy publication day! Out now with @faberbooks.bsky.social
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 💜
Calling all UK-based PGRs/ECRs 📣 Are you planning your next conference visit or research trip stateside? Apply for one of our Peter Parish Travel Grants for up to £1000 towards your trip!
Our next round closes in TWO WEEKS on July 1st - don't miss out!
Still from the 2025 movie, Sinners. Two identical men, dressed in suits, look beyond the camera. The one on the left wears a brown fedora hat with a red tie; on the right, a blue newsboy cap, blue tie, and holds a cigarette. Behind them is the brown-and-blue siding of an old building and front windshield of a red car, and in the horizon a green treeline.
Watch out who you invite inside...our episode on SINNERS is out now! Dr Tammy Kernodle joins to unpack all the history — but especially the music! — behind the latest historical blockbuster to take cinemas by storm 🎵🧛♂️ Available wherever fine podcasts are found! open.spotify.com/episode/7pJ6...
The association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH) invites applications for PGR & ECR Travel Grants of up to £1000 to fund travel to the US for conferences, to conduct remote/archival research into 19thC US history, & more...
Deadline: 1st July.
Lecturer (Education) in Modern US History
Queen's University Belfast #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI397/l...
Reminder re: 12 month post in American history at Cardiff University. For, erm well publicized reasons, we don't have budget for external advertising so you need access to the link below to apply. Please do think about applying/sharing with possible candidates. Happy to take queries
The Not In Our Name letter for cis women opposed to transphobia has now exceeded 20,000
After 175 yrs, Harvard is releasing the images of Renty & Delia — Tamara Lanier’s enslaved ancestors. Their dignity will be honored at the Int’l African American Museum in Charleston (SC). This is a powerful step toward truth & reclaiming Black humanity! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...
Excited to see my article published in @anchistjournal.bsky.social has been shortlisted alongside some amazing scholarship!
Feels a bit absurd to be promoting this, but there's a 12 month 18/19th C American history post at Cardiff. Deadline 15.06.25. Feel free to msg or contact me via email - doddingtond@cardiff.ac.uk - for further information: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
🚨HOTCUS Committee Elections!🚨
It's that time of the year, when the HOTCUS Committee step down and we invite members to nominate themselves for one of the positions.The deadline for nominations is Friday May 23rd at 17:00 (BST), and all the information is on the website. hotcus.org.uk/about-hotcus...
STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia'
Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29
Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
Thank you! Your research sounds super interesting!
