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Temple University Press Christian Right organizations have darkened America’s political soul by strategically constructing a theological justification for hate. Angelia Wilson supports this claim in The Politics of Hate by detailing how Christian Right organizations have pushed voters toward polarization and primed religious conservatives to support Donald Trump.
The Canadian Review of American Studies is actively seeking submissions from scholars in various disciplines on topics related to American literature, culture, history, and more.
A CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED SERIES OF ABOUT 100 SHORT ESSaYS ON THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION APPEARING IN AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS AND OTHER MEDIA 2020-2024 by a Baltimore lawyer and historian and sometime fellow of Wolfson College Cambridge with politically independent views, including hostility to bellicosity, plutocracy, and permissiveness.
This online conference takes its title from Marvin Gaye’s masterpiece, "What's Going On," a choice precipitated in part by the election of Donald Trump in November 2024, for many of us are thinking about how to make sense of that event. The question “what’s going on?” asks for a description of the salient and defining features of a given historical moment, particularly the present, but it also gestures towards continuities from/within the past, namely divisions and struggles that have been “going on” for some time.
Why is True Crime such an ongoing social and cultural phenomenon in the US? Our panel of experts are on the case...
The IAAS annual conference will take place in Trinity College Dublin on 24-26 April 2025. The new deadline for receipt of abstracts is 15 March 2025. Please send proposals for 20-minute papers on the theme of “We the People” to conference@iaas.ie (Joint proposals for three-person panels are also invited.) Keynote speakers: Prof. Emerita Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck, University of London) and Dr Aaron Hunter (Trinity College Dublin)
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