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🚨JOB ALERT🚨

We! Are! Hiring!

The Department of Africana Studies at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position in Black
Women’s Studies/Gender Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin 7/1/26

More info here: apply.interfolio.com/171572

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August 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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🚨 Historians! 🚨

Hope you can join us at the next installment of the American Political History Conference next June in D.C.

Submission deadline, Dec. 31, 2025.
Call for Proposals: American Political History Conference June 4-6, 2026 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center, Washington D.C. “American Democracy as Political History: Challenges across the Past, Present, and Future” A strong understanding of the past is critical to strengthening American democracy and to navigating the seismic shifts happening in our nation today. This conference will explore the social, economic, and cultural pathways that created this current political moment and provide essential insights on how to address pressing issues of polarization, injustice, inequality and democratic erosion. This event will bring political historians and other historically minded scholars into conversation with one another and the broader public to grapple with the democratic challenges facing the vast “American project” at the nation’s semiquincentennial. It will challenge the traditional categories of political history — liberal and conservative, elite and populist, rural and urban — as well as subfield divisions that have produced disciplinary silos. It will create opportunities to build networks, share new research, debate ideas, think about the contemporary implications of this research, and discuss strategies for public engagement. We invite panel and paper submissions that reflect the diversity of the field of American political history, from the colonial era to recent history. We especially encourage roundtable and workshop ideas that will foster dynamic conversations about how we write and understand political history across time periods, subfields, and disciplines. We welcome sessions that challenge traditional paradigms in political history and address broad historical time periods. We especially encourage conversations that include scholars working in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. We also welcome historians from different arenas—including academia, public history, public policy, journalism, documentary film, television, podcasting, and radio—to launch co… Submission Details: Submissions should be up to 500 words with proposals for individual papers or panel, roundtable, or workshop sessions. Each proposal should also include a biographical statement for each participant of up to 150 words that includes contact information. Please submit proposals in one Word or PDF document to brownell@purdue.edu by December 31, 2025. Program Committee: Kathryn Cramer Brownell, Purdue University (co-chair) Nicole Hemmer, Vanderbilt University (co-chair) Leah Wright, Johns Hopkins University (co-chair) A.J. Bauer, University of Alabama Kellie Carter Jackson, Wellesley College Bobby Cervantes, Harvard University Lindsay M. Chervinsky, George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon Elizabeth Hinton, Yale University John S. Huntington, Houston Community College Michael Koncewicz, New York University Cecilia Márquez, Duke University George Derek Musgrove, University of Maryland Baltimore County Gautham Rao, American University Rachel Shelden, Penn State University This conference is made possible in part by funding from the Johns Hopkins Nexus Award grant.
August 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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The Amistad Research Center, one of the largest repositories of Black history, cut half its staff after the Trump administration ended four federal grants
60-year-old Black history archive faces uncertain future after federal cuts
The Amistad Research Center, one of largest repositories of Black history, cut half its staff after the Trump administration ended four federal grants.
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July 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM