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As the United States heads into a high-stakes presidential election, Oxford's Rothermere American Institute is running an in person discussion series exploring the structural problems and political challenges behind the headlines. The Present and Future of US Politics series examines why American politics is so polarised and asks: what is at stake in the 2024 election? The seminars will open with a short presentation by an expert, followed by questions and discussion. Everyone with an interest in US politics is welcome.

The association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH) invites submissions for its annual dissertation prizes.

"Insightful . . . . Going beyond the stereotype of Springsteen as chronicler of the white everyman, Sawyers examines his focus on social issues like AIDS and the Iraq War and provides an intriguing analysis of how his Catholic roots intersect with his political consciousness . . . . It's a dynamic portrait of the complicated political and social influences of a rock legend." ~Publishers Weekly

The book "Reinventing the Warrior – Masculinity in the American Indian Movement, 1968-1973" offers fresh perspectives into the American Indian Movement (AIM), a key player in Indigenous protest politics –most famously known through the 71-day long occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973. The book explores how Indigenous men remade self and society during the 1960s and 1970s in struggle against colonial domination. More specifically, it describes and analyzes the ways in which Indigenous men reinvented themselves as men and as warriors in complex processes of gendered nation-building.

"More is masterful at linking contraception, family planning, doctors’ views, and sexual education together, while cogently illustrating the cultural fights that surround sex education. No one else has done this. A must read." - Susan Reverby, Wellesley College

"[A]n important book with a rich and detailed account of reform and counter-reform that would be most useful to anyone seeking to understand just what the modern Democratic Party is and how it got to be that way." - Forum Review