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Ulster-Americans: Ulster Immigrant Life in an American City Tenement, 1840-1910. A collaborative AHRC-funded PhD opportunity between Queen's University Belfast and National Museums Northern Ireland. Deadline 21st May 2025.
The Rise and Fall of King Coal: American Energy Transitions in an Age of Markets, 1800–1940, By Mark Aldrich is history of the dynamic role of coal in the energy landscape of the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
BAAS 2025 will take place this Wednesday 23rd - Friday 25th April at University of Hertfordshire. Register here: https://baas.ac.uk/conferences/baas-2025-university-of-hertfordshire-23-25-april-2025/
The BAAS School Newsletter for Spring 2025 has arrived. In this issue, contributors cast fresh light on the political ideas that shaped the world, and, in several instances, draw connections between the issues that shaped the early republic and those that continue to reverberate in contemporary US politics.
The University of Manchester Americans Studies programme is delighted to announce its annual Henry Box Brown Lecture, which this year will be given by Prof. Adrienne Brown (Chicago), 'The Residential is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership'
Keele University and the British Library are pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded Collaborative Doctoral Studentship from 1 October 2025 under the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme. The application deadline is 5pm on May 12.
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