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The Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA) is thrilled to announce that this year’s Ellen Craft Essay Prize is now open for submissions. The Ellen Craft Essay Prize is intended to help to promote, encourage and share the study of marginalised voices in American Studies at the postgraduate and early career levels. It hopes, in a small way, to answer some of the current issues facing American Studies scholarship within the UK both in subject matter and participants.

James Bultema is the vice president of the board of directors of the Ulysses S. Grant Association. His collection of images, the Bultema-Williams Collection of Ulysses S. Grant Photographs and Prints, is now housed at the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library at Mississippi State University. He is the author of several books on policing, including The Protectors: A Photographic History of Police Departments in the U.S.

"The brilliance of this work is only enhanced by the knowledge that they come at the start of a radiant future. Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley's combined exceptional eye and ear makes something new in the American theatre—something far more robust, outrageous, and inventive than anything we've seen in recent years, and I for one can't wait for their future." —Hilton Als, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and theater critic for The New Yorker

"[Kurie's] sensitivity to, and affection for, the various community subgroups often shine through. The result is a testament to a Hershey identity that is still strong. . . . [Kurie] demonstrates how a philanthropic institution can continue to reflect a founder's vision while shaping and being shaped by the community that grows up around it, one whose bonds can often be bittersweet." - The Wall Street Journal

This two-day symposium at Howard University, home of the Black Press Archives, will convene scholars, journalists, archivists, artists, and students to critically examine the past, present, and futures of the Black Press.

"Peddlers of Hate provides today's justice advocates with a meaningful insight into the fissures of American democracy that will continue to be exploited until the cores of bigotry, xenophobia, and white supremacy are met with the same understanding of history as the operators of oppression. Law's warnings are to be heeded lest the heirs to the Klan ride to power once again." —Taylor Stewart, executive director of the Oregon Remembrance Project