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    Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about US by Christopher B. Patterson & Tara Fickle

    The contributors to Made in Asia/America explore the historical entanglements of video games, Asia, and America, showing how examining games offer new ways of imagining empire, race, and coalition.

    Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, Revised Edition by Marc Dollinger

    Highlights Jewish participation in the civil rights movement

    The Emily Winfree Fellowship for African and African American History in Virginia

    The Emily Winfree Fellowship for African and African American History in Virginia promotes the study of Black history in Virginia and provide access to the VMHC’s vast collections. many of which concentrate on the late eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Within these records, there is much information about the lives and contributions of African Americans. The Winfree Fellowship carries a stipend of $8,000 for a minimum of six weeks in residence at the VMHC. The deadline for applications is Friday, September 27, 2024. Learn more at VirginiaHistory.org/EmilyWinfreeFellowship.

    New Book – Otherworldly Mothering. The Maternal Grammar of Black Women’s Writing, 1970–1990 by Marika Ceschia (Louisiana State University Press, August 2024, ISBN 9780807182499)

    Otherworldly Mothering. The Maternal Grammar of Black Women’s Writing, 1970–1990 by Marika Ceschia (Louisiana State University Press, August 2024, ISBN 9780807182499)

    A Symposium to re-launch the INDIGENOUS STUDIES RESEARCH NETWORK UK (previously the Native Studies Research Network UK)

    One-day symposium to re-launch the Indigenous Studies Research Network (previously the Native Studies Research Network UK). Join us in London on September 19th, at the Wolfson Conference Suite, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, for an exciting event filled with discussions, presentations, and networking opportunities. Connect with fellow researchers, share your work, and be part of the growing community of Indigenous studies enthusiasts. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/965137380887?aff=oddtdtcreator

    Call for Proposals: Conference “A Water’s History of the United States” (Middelburg, the Netherlands) May 21-23, 2025

    The Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) and the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University invite submissions of paper proposals for a jointly organized conference on the role that water – in all its states and manifestations – has played in the history of the United States.

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