Dr Alys D Beverton
@alysbeverton.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. Researching C19th United States political and diplomatic culture. Views my own.
Author of ‘Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination in the Civil War Era,’ UNC Press, 2025
Author of ‘Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination in the Civil War Era,’ UNC Press, 2025
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We're deep in marking season so this feels like a remnant of another life, but my article, 'Sexual Violence and Military Justice in the Occupied South' is now available in the June issue of Civil War History: muse.jhu.edu/pub/14/artic...
Project MUSE - Sexual Violence and Military Justice in the Occupied South
muse.jhu.edu
May 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We're deep in marking season so this feels like a remnant of another life, but my article, 'Sexual Violence and Military Justice in the Occupied South' is now available in the June issue of Civil War History: muse.jhu.edu/pub/14/artic...
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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...
Lecturer in American History - Cardiff University - Job Details
Job Details: Lecturer in American HistorySchool of History, Archaeology and ReligionAn exciting new opportunity has arisen
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May 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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...
This looks like a very useful event
While it's not reflected on our site yet (will be soon) the CFP for "Taking Stock and Setting Agendas" with the @easmisc.bsky.social & @mcneilcenter.bsky.social is extended until June 1st! So some extra time to send in your proposals, and check out the details here: theitps.org/event/taking...
Taking Stock and Setting Agendas: A Workshop on Data, Digital Humanities, and Early American Studies – ITPS Research Portal
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May 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This looks like a very useful event
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14 May 1607: English colonists arrive at Jamestown. In my book The Virginia Venture @pennpress.bsky.social I explored the social history of this colonial project, from an English/transatlantic perspective involving women, the poor, children, institutions
#onthisday #Jamestown #Virginia #history
#onthisday #Jamestown #Virginia #history
May 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
14 May 1607: English colonists arrive at Jamestown. In my book The Virginia Venture @pennpress.bsky.social I explored the social history of this colonial project, from an English/transatlantic perspective involving women, the poor, children, institutions
#onthisday #Jamestown #Virginia #history
#onthisday #Jamestown #Virginia #history
My book is now officially in print! Order 'Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination during the Civil War Era' here: uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Exceptionalism in Crisis | Alys D. Beverton | University of North Carolina Press
Before 1861, US Americans could confidently claim to belong to the New World's "exceptional" republic, unlike other self-governing nations in the Western Hem...
uncpress.org
May 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
My book is now officially in print! Order 'Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination during the Civil War Era' here: uncpress.org/book/9781469...
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Fascinating OPEN ACCESS article by @aishadjelid.bsky.social in ANCH on forced reproduction in the antebellum South, filling an important gap in the historiography of American slavery - read and share free of charge using this link:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@branchuk.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@branchuk.bsky.social
“The master whished to reproduce”: slavery, forced intimacy, and enslavers’ interference in sexual relationships in the antebellum South, 1808–1861
This article examines the extent to which enslavers across the antebellum South forced enslaved men and women to reproduce. Using a spectrum of violence as a tool of coercion, enslavers coerced, ca...
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April 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Fascinating OPEN ACCESS article by @aishadjelid.bsky.social in ANCH on forced reproduction in the antebellum South, filling an important gap in the historiography of American slavery - read and share free of charge using this link:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@branchuk.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@branchuk.bsky.social
Long overdue … committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...
Education Committee announces session on higher education funding - Committees - UK Parliament
Education Committee Chair Helen Hayes MP has today announced a deep dive evidence session examining funding issues in the higher education sector.
committees.parliament.uk
March 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Long overdue … committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...
Interesting thread on public history, Reddit, and gaming…Didn’t think I’d be putting together those three in a sentence today
Our litmus test is instead whether a discussion is *productive*. In education, productive discussion is enabled by shared training, knowledge, reading and goals.
Put a classroom of history students together in a room and it's reasonable to expect they can have useful (if imperfect) conversations.
Put a classroom of history students together in a room and it's reasonable to expect they can have useful (if imperfect) conversations.
March 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Interesting thread on public history, Reddit, and gaming…Didn’t think I’d be putting together those three in a sentence today
Very pleased to be part of this project. Look out for more updates on 'American Imperialism in the Long Nineteenth Century' soon!
After 2.5 years of work, the 4 volumes of our collection "American Imperialism in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Documentary History, 1775–1919" has been sent to the publishers. Hopefully out soon-ish! Thanks to my co-editors Adam Burns, @alysbeverton.bsky.social & @alex-bryne.bsky.social.
March 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Very pleased to be part of this project. Look out for more updates on 'American Imperialism in the Long Nineteenth Century' soon!
If you’re a UK-based US historian you should definitely consider putting in for this, especially if you’re PhD/ECR. BrANCH is such a welcoming conference for those starting out in academia, and this year it’s teaming up with BGEAH! What could be better???
We're thrilled to open the call for papers for the 2025 BrANCH Conference, to be held jointly with the British Group in Early American History (BGEAH). This year’s conference will be hosted in Cardiff, Wales on September 12-14, 2025! 🏴
Find out more info & how to apply on our website 👇
Find out more info & how to apply on our website 👇
Cardiff 2025 — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
www.branch.org.uk
February 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
If you’re a UK-based US historian you should definitely consider putting in for this, especially if you’re PhD/ECR. BrANCH is such a welcoming conference for those starting out in academia, and this year it’s teaming up with BGEAH! What could be better???
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We're thrilled to open the call for papers for the 2025 BrANCH Conference, to be held jointly with the British Group in Early American History (BGEAH). This year’s conference will be hosted in Cardiff, Wales on September 12-14, 2025! 🏴
Find out more info & how to apply on our website 👇
Find out more info & how to apply on our website 👇
Cardiff 2025 — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
www.branch.org.uk
February 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We're thrilled to open the call for papers for the 2025 BrANCH Conference, to be held jointly with the British Group in Early American History (BGEAH). This year’s conference will be hosted in Cardiff, Wales on September 12-14, 2025! 🏴
Find out more info & how to apply on our website 👇
Find out more info & how to apply on our website 👇
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Learn how and why Thomas Jefferson, citizen scientist, tracked the weather. Learned a lot researching + writing this for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social 🗃️ ✍️ #skystorians www.smithsonianmag.com/history/disc...
Discover Why Thomas Jefferson Meticulously Monitored the Weather Wherever He Went
The third president knew that the whims of nature shaped Americans' daily lives as farmers and enslavers
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January 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Learn how and why Thomas Jefferson, citizen scientist, tracked the weather. Learned a lot researching + writing this for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social 🗃️ ✍️ #skystorians www.smithsonianmag.com/history/disc...
Hey folks, a reminder that you have until the end of this month to get a 30% discount when you pre-order my book Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the U.S. Imagination during the Civil War Era uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Exceptionalism in Crisis | Alys D. Beverton | University of North Carolina Press
Before 1861, US Americans could confidently claim to belong to the New World’s "exceptional" republic, unlike other self-governing nations in the Western H...
uncpress.org
January 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Hey folks, a reminder that you have until the end of this month to get a 30% discount when you pre-order my book Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the U.S. Imagination during the Civil War Era uncpress.org/book/9781469...
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EXCEPTIONALISM IN CRISIS, by @alysbeverton.bsky.social. For many Americans in the 19thc, Mexico was regarded as the unstable, uncivilized, revolution-prone nation to the South - an example of what the US would never be. The Civil War made them revisit these assumptions. uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Exceptionalism in Crisis | Alys D. Beverton | University of North Carolina Press
Before 1861, US Americans could confidently claim to belong to the New World’s "exceptional" republic, unlike other self-governing nations in the Western H...
uncpress.org
November 14, 2024 at 5:00 PM
EXCEPTIONALISM IN CRISIS, by @alysbeverton.bsky.social. For many Americans in the 19thc, Mexico was regarded as the unstable, uncivilized, revolution-prone nation to the South - an example of what the US would never be. The Civil War made them revisit these assumptions. uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Need a last minute xmas gift? Never fear! My book Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination during the Civil War Era is available to pre-order from @uncpress.bsky.social. Follow this link www.uncpress.org/book/9781469... and use the code 01SOCIAL30 for 30% off
Exceptionalism in Crisis | Alys D. Beverton | University of North Carolina Press
Before 1861, US Americans could confidently claim to belong to the New World’s "exceptional" republic, unlike other self-governing nations in the Western H...
www.uncpress.org
December 19, 2024 at 7:38 AM
Need a last minute xmas gift? Never fear! My book Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination during the Civil War Era is available to pre-order from @uncpress.bsky.social. Follow this link www.uncpress.org/book/9781469... and use the code 01SOCIAL30 for 30% off