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The Associate Editors of the Journal of American Studies are looking for book reviews from doctoral candidates and early career researchers with expertise in any aspect of American Studies and its related sub-disciplines.
The award-winning university access charity, The Brilliant Club, is offering a part time opportunity for PhDs and ECRs.
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.
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