News & Events

American Nineteenth Century History, the official journal of British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH), published three times a year by Taylor & Francis, seeks replacements for its current book review editors, David Cox (University of Southampton) and Dawn Wiley (University of Alabama). We would ideally like to appoint two editors, one based in the US and the other in the UK. Please apply EITHER as an individual OR as a duo.

A one-day symposium on the Federal Writers’ Project will be held in Japan on 30 June. Online participation is available. Professor Emeritus Alessandro Portelli (Sapienza University of Rome), an internationally renowned oral historian, will deliver an on-site talk. Language: English Event poster with QR code for registration: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WHD4YzeWsBGpKPrnyxDm-zmSo9rLw_xF/view?usp=sharing

Congratulations! James Fenton has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for his project "Virtual Realities of the American Civil War, 1865-1933".

Are you a graduate student or junior scholar curious about the world of academic publishing? Then join the SHA Grad Council at "Deciphering Reader 2: Academic Publishing for Grad Students," a Zoom panel and conversation on Wednesday, June 25, at 11am EST/ 4pm BST! Panelists include the Editor and Assistant Editor of the Journal of Southern History, as well as fellow graduate students who have recently been published.

We invite contributions for the interdisciplinary volume Cognitive Literary Urban Studies: Embodied Cognition and Narrative Space. Grounded in the framework of 4EA cognitive science (Varela et al. 2006), the volume includes chapters that demonstrate a clear application of key concepts from embodied cognition in their discussions of the processes and aftermath of embodied reading of affordances (e.g., city signs and textual cues) in (urban) narratives and and city spaces.

The Tunisian Association for American Cultural Studies (TAACS) is pleased to announce its upcoming international conference, "Justice and Morality in the North American Context", to be held on October 23-24, 2025 at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Sousse, Tunisia. This interdisciplinary event invites scholars in American Studies to interrogate the evolving relationship between legal frameworks and moral imperatives in North American history, politics, media, and culture. Deadline: Tuesday, July 15, 2025