HOTCUS
@hotcus.bsky.social
Historians of the Twentieth Century U.S. (HOTCUS) promotes scholarship in 20th century American history through conferences and awards. Become a member! - https://hotcus.org.uk/
Submit a single document with a 250-word abstract, and one page CV (panel proposals to include overview + individual abstracts and CVs) to events.hotcus@gmail.com
by Wednesday 10 December 2025 (or, better still, earlier).
Full details on our website: hotcus.org.uk
by Wednesday 10 December 2025 (or, better still, earlier).
Full details on our website: hotcus.org.uk
The American Nation in the Twentieth Century: The Declaration of Independence at 250, will be held at the University of Liverpool on 27 February 2026.
hotcus.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Submit a single document with a 250-word abstract, and one page CV (panel proposals to include overview + individual abstracts and CVs) to events.hotcus@gmail.com
by Wednesday 10 December 2025 (or, better still, earlier).
Full details on our website: hotcus.org.uk
by Wednesday 10 December 2025 (or, better still, earlier).
Full details on our website: hotcus.org.uk
We invite individual paper and panels that consider how Americans have drawn upon the Declaration of Independence to articulate new understandings of belonging, sovereignty, and democracy, and how these debates have shaped the historical imagination in or about the twentieth-century United States.
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
We invite individual paper and panels that consider how Americans have drawn upon the Declaration of Independence to articulate new understandings of belonging, sovereignty, and democracy, and how these debates have shaped the historical imagination in or about the twentieth-century United States.
Things usually quiet down over the summer, but we are looking to welcome members for our future events in 2026, all of which you can see advertised on our website or here on Bluesky as they come up. hotcus.org.uk
We are looking for institutions to host our Winter Symposium and Annual Conference in 2027
hotcus.org.uk
July 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Things usually quiet down over the summer, but we are looking to welcome members for our future events in 2026, all of which you can see advertised on our website or here on Bluesky as they come up. hotcus.org.uk
Lastly HOTCUS members Fabian Hilfrich, @calebwoodall.bsky.social and Emma Long delivered their well-received panel Revisiting Race, Gender, and Religion in Wars during the Long 20th Century at @shafrhistorians.bsky.social's conference chaired by our membership secretary @lizingleson.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Lastly HOTCUS members Fabian Hilfrich, @calebwoodall.bsky.social and Emma Long delivered their well-received panel Revisiting Race, Gender, and Religion in Wars during the Long 20th Century at @shafrhistorians.bsky.social's conference chaired by our membership secretary @lizingleson.bsky.social
2. @lucyekelly.bsky.social , working on ““I want to fight the fight. I want my rightful place”: Queer Worldmaking in the American South, 1970-2000”
3. @paula-murphy.bsky.social , working on “‘Whatever Happened to Unity?’ Co-Curation and Resistance in Hip-Hop’s First Decade”
3. @paula-murphy.bsky.social , working on “‘Whatever Happened to Unity?’ Co-Curation and Resistance in Hip-Hop’s First Decade”
July 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
2. @lucyekelly.bsky.social , working on ““I want to fight the fight. I want my rightful place”: Queer Worldmaking in the American South, 1970-2000”
3. @paula-murphy.bsky.social , working on “‘Whatever Happened to Unity?’ Co-Curation and Resistance in Hip-Hop’s First Decade”
3. @paula-murphy.bsky.social , working on “‘Whatever Happened to Unity?’ Co-Curation and Resistance in Hip-Hop’s First Decade”
HOTCUS also announced the winners of the HOTCUS Research Awards to the following 3 recipients:
1. Sophie Stanford, working on “Restorative Justice or Cold War Manipulation?: Situating Redress for Japanese Internment Within the Context of International Geopolitics During the Reagan Administration”
1. Sophie Stanford, working on “Restorative Justice or Cold War Manipulation?: Situating Redress for Japanese Internment Within the Context of International Geopolitics During the Reagan Administration”
July 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
HOTCUS also announced the winners of the HOTCUS Research Awards to the following 3 recipients:
1. Sophie Stanford, working on “Restorative Justice or Cold War Manipulation?: Situating Redress for Japanese Internment Within the Context of International Geopolitics During the Reagan Administration”
1. Sophie Stanford, working on “Restorative Justice or Cold War Manipulation?: Situating Redress for Japanese Internment Within the Context of International Geopolitics During the Reagan Administration”
You can read Tom's article in the Journal of American Studies, and can consult the Article Prize committee's commendation on the HOTCUS website at hotcus.org.uk/awards/artic...
July 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
You can read Tom's article in the Journal of American Studies, and can consult the Article Prize committee's commendation on the HOTCUS website at hotcus.org.uk/awards/artic...
At the conference, we were pleased to announce that HOTCUS 2025 ECR article prize was awarded to@thomascryer.bsky.social for his article “‘A False Picture of Negro Progress’: John Hope Franklin, Racial Liberalism, and the Political (Mis)uses of Black History during the 1963 Emancipation Centennial.”
July 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
At the conference, we were pleased to announce that HOTCUS 2025 ECR article prize was awarded to@thomascryer.bsky.social for his article “‘A False Picture of Negro Progress’: John Hope Franklin, Racial Liberalism, and the Political (Mis)uses of Black History during the 1963 Emancipation Centennial.”
Professor Andrew Preston's insightful keynote on his new book Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security was welcomed, as were his asides (and primary documents) into the founding of HOTCUS way back in 2007.
July 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Professor Andrew Preston's insightful keynote on his new book Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security was welcomed, as were his asides (and primary documents) into the founding of HOTCUS way back in 2007.