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🏆 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:
* School Essay Award
* Undergraduate & Postgraduate Essay Awards
* Teaching Development Awards
Learn more & make your submission here:
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,…
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December 19, 2025 at 8:31 AM
🏆 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:
* School Essay Award
* Undergraduate & Postgraduate Essay Awards
* Teaching Development Awards
Learn more & make your submission here:
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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!
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Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann
Larry McCaffrey, co-founder of ACIS, was a highly respected, engaging, and beloved teacher throughout his entire career. He served as the first Secretary of ACIS and was ACIS President from 1975 to…
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December 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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...
acisweb.org/mccaffrey-pr...
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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! 🗃️
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! 🗃️
December 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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! 🗃️
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! 🗃️
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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...
The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants -- out next summer with Princeton University Press.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Hobo
A panoramic history of America’s first climate migrants
press.princeton.edu
November 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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...
The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants -- out next summer with Princeton University Press.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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This book (and all others by @edinburghup.bsky.social) are half price this weekend from their website: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-frederi...
Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846
Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846
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November 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This book (and all others by @edinburghup.bsky.social) are half price this weekend from their website: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-frederi...
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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."
November 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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."
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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...
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.
www.rte.ie
November 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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...
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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....
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,...
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November 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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....
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📣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
University of Liverpool, 27 February 2026
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
📣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
University of Liverpool, 27 February 2026
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October 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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...
Trump: "I'm just a little busy. I'd love to go to Argentina. I'd like to be like Biden. I'd like to go to the beach. My legs are not quite as thin as his. My legs are slightly heavier, my arms are slightly larger. My body is a little bit larger than his. I'm not sure it would be appreciated."
October 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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...
Congratulations to our colleague @elsadevienne.bsky.social on winning this year's W. Turrentine Jackson Award from the Western History Association! 🍾🏆⛱️
I think I can now start calling myself a historian of the American West without feeling like an impostor 😅🥳
October 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Congratulations to our colleague @elsadevienne.bsky.social on winning this year's W. Turrentine Jackson Award from the Western History Association! 🍾🏆⛱️
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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...
Please share widely!
No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920
The Faculty of History is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in post-1920 U.S. political history and/or the history of the United States in the World since 1920, beginning 1 October, 2026. The
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September 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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...
Please share widely!
No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
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The Northumbria History Society is recruiting new members for the year ahead! Find their stall in the city campus Students' Union (in Escape).
September 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The Northumbria History Society is recruiting new members for the year ahead! Find their stall in the city campus Students' Union (in Escape).
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👩 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
⭐ 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
September 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
👩 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
⭐ 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
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...
doi.org/10.1111/1468...
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...
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August 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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...
doi.org/10.1111/1468...
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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 -
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 -
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…
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August 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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 -
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 -
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Absolutely delighted to receive this award that will support my research trip to New York! Massive thanks to @hotcus.bsky.social 🙌🏼
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.'
June 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Absolutely delighted to receive this award that will support my research trip to New York! Massive thanks to @hotcus.bsky.social 🙌🏼
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...
June 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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.'
June 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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.'
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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 💜
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 💜
Congratulations to our colleague Dr Elsa Devienne (@elsadevienne.bsky.social) on winning the Arthur Miller Institute First Book Prize (awarded by BAAS/UEA's Arthur Miller Institute of American Studies) for 'Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles' (OUP, 2024).
June 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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 💜
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 💜
Congratulations to our colleague Dr Elsa Devienne (@elsadevienne.bsky.social) on winning the Arthur Miller Institute First Book Prize (awarded by BAAS/UEA's Arthur Miller Institute of American Studies) for 'Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles' (OUP, 2024).
June 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Congratulations to our colleague Dr Elsa Devienne (@elsadevienne.bsky.social) on winning the Arthur Miller Institute First Book Prize (awarded by BAAS/UEA's Arthur Miller Institute of American Studies) for 'Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles' (OUP, 2024).
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How exciting. Thrilled to see my Loretta Lynn article and the famous claret & blue silks in such august scholarly company for the Kentucky Derby article run-off.
Many thanks to the @kyhistsoc.bsky.social for such a fun event. @nuamstudies.bsky.social @officialbaas.bsky.social @hotcus.bsky.social
Many thanks to the @kyhistsoc.bsky.social for such a fun event. @nuamstudies.bsky.social @officialbaas.bsky.social @hotcus.bsky.social
Finally - Sex, Drugs, and Country Music: Loretta Lynn, Gender Politics, and the Health Environment in Mid-Twentieth Century Rural Kentucky by Brian Ward #RegisterKHS #Derby #skystorians
Vote Here: surveymonkey.com/r/KWJZ298
Vote Here: surveymonkey.com/r/KWJZ298
May 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
How exciting. Thrilled to see my Loretta Lynn article and the famous claret & blue silks in such august scholarly company for the Kentucky Derby article run-off.
Many thanks to the @kyhistsoc.bsky.social for such a fun event. @nuamstudies.bsky.social @officialbaas.bsky.social @hotcus.bsky.social
Many thanks to the @kyhistsoc.bsky.social for such a fun event. @nuamstudies.bsky.social @officialbaas.bsky.social @hotcus.bsky.social
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This is awesome - honoured to have my Loretta Lynn essay included among such fine scholarship in the 2025 Register of Kentucky History Derby - and bowled over by the West Ham-leaning silks! @northumbriauni.bsky.social @nuamstudies.bsky.social @officialbaas.bsky.social
@hotcus.bsky.social
@hotcus.bsky.social
It's the third and final round—the official call to post Round Three! Read the selected articles on ProjectMUSE (ow.ly/cyPG50Rco0w for links) and pick your favorite (link below) before 5 p.m. ET on Friday, May 2! #RegisterKHS #kyhistory
Pick your favorite: surveymonkey.com/r/695TQB8
Pick your favorite: surveymonkey.com/r/695TQB8
April 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This is awesome - honoured to have my Loretta Lynn essay included among such fine scholarship in the 2025 Register of Kentucky History Derby - and bowled over by the West Ham-leaning silks! @northumbriauni.bsky.social @nuamstudies.bsky.social @officialbaas.bsky.social
@hotcus.bsky.social
@hotcus.bsky.social
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It's publication day for "Green & Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military: 1861-1865"! Now available for purchase in hardcopy and ebook. It examines the experience of the c.250,000 Irish Americans who served in U.S. forces, making use of 100s of letters by enlisted men to wives and mothers.
April 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
It's publication day for "Green & Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military: 1861-1865"! Now available for purchase in hardcopy and ebook. It examines the experience of the c.250,000 Irish Americans who served in U.S. forces, making use of 100s of letters by enlisted men to wives and mothers.