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Please help us shape the future of environmental teaching in UK universities and showcase good practice! The GREEN BAAS audit investigates academics’ current practices and experiences of teaching about the US environment in UK Higher Education (in or beyond American studies programmes). We invite educators to participate in the study through an online survey and/or discursive interviews.
Submit to a special issue of The Edith Wharton Review by Sep 10, 2025
The Society for the History of Women in the Americas welcomes attendees to the 2025 annual conference, co-hosted by Leeds Beckett University and the University of Leeds. This year's theme is emotion: How do we reflect on, train and engage the emotional aspects of our research? How can histories of emotion deepen our understanding of historical events? And how is the archive or the classroom an emotive space?
A gripping civil war era tale of a sex, murder and an ambitious Union solder, all set against the backdrop of American life in the nineteenth century, one given to desperate self-improvement.
Join us on zoom on Thursday 26 June 2025, 3-4pm for a conversation with the authors of two exciting new books in US environmental history: Dr Rebecca K. Wright (Northumbria) author of Moral Energy in America (John Hopkins UP, 2025) Dr Pollyanna Rhee (Illinois Urbana-Champaign) author of Natural Attachements: The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920–1970 (Chicago UP, 2025) Chaired by Dr Elsa Devienne (Northumbria and GREEN BAAS co-lead).
LSU Press is hosting a Facebook Live launch for Antislavery in the Dissenting Atlantic by Bridget Bennett on Thursday 6 June at 20.00 BST. A recording will be available on Facebook and will then migrate to YouTube.
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