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“America Now!” is a new series of live events exploring the current state of the USA and its place in the world. In a world of hot takes these discussions will offer some much-needed deep dives, giving expert insight into some of the most pressing or peculiar aspects of modern American life - from the Supreme Court to Cowboy Carter. Organised by the British Association for American Studies and the Eccles Institute for the Americas and Oceania, America Now! takes place every other month, in the British Library Knowledge Centre.

War Game is an expertly crafted documentary that considers what could happen on January 6, 2025, if the presidential vote is once again, and even more vigorously, contested.

Eisenhower for Our Time provides an introduction to the Eisenhower presidency, extracting lessons for today's world. Steven Wagner proposes that the need to maintain balance defines Eisenhower's presidency.

Ten years ago a groundbreaking cross-generational study revealed that greater freedom and new constraints were leading fewer young people to choose parenthood. In the intervening years, the decision to have a family has not gotten easier.

Dana Luciano examines the impacts of the new science of geology on nineteenth-century US culture, showing how it catalyzed transformative conversations regarding the intersections between humans and the nonhuman world.

Daniel Widener expands conceptions of the struggle for racial justice by reframing twentieth- and twenty-first-century antiracist movements in the United States in a broader internationalist context.