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The Southern Historical Association’s Graduate Council and Historians of the Twentieth-Century United States are proud to announce our collaborative online event ‘Contested Legacies and Continuing Struggles: Brown v. Board, 70 Years On’, to be held at 13.00 EDT/18.00 BST on Wednesday 15th May, via Zoom.

The New Area Studies Research Centre, the East Centre and the School of Global Development at the University of East Anglia are calling for papers between 5000-8000 words to be presented at a symposium on 2nd and 3rd October 2024 on the topic of Imagined Geographies: from Past to Future.

The first history of the formidable campaign that transformed Los Angeles into one of the world's greatest coastal metropolises, revealing how the city's man-made shores became the site for the reinvention of seaside leisure and the triumph of modern bodies.

The Recursive Frontier (SUNY Press) is an innovative new spatial history of both the multiethnic literature of Los Angeles and the city itself in the mid-twentieth century. Setting canonical texts alongside underexamined works and sources such as census bulletins and regional planning documents, Michael Docherty identifies the American frontier as the defining dynamic of Los Angeles fiction from the 1930s to the 1950s.

We invite submissions of undergraduate coursework written on any area of American history in the long nineteenth century by students identifying as BAME in their second or third year of undergraduate study (third or fourth year in Scottish HEIs). Work should be 2500-3500 words in length, including footnotes but excluding bibliography. While we expect the thematic content to be broad, judges will consider the level of knowledge, writing style, degree of original thinking, and overall quality of the piece.

From Fidel Castro to Qassem Soleimani, The President's Kill List explores the US government's involvement in an array of assassinations and assassination attempts against foreign leaders and officials.