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Latest News and Events

    BAAS Teaching Prize

    Are you an American Studies undergrad or postgrad teacher? Has something worked really well lately? If yes, please tell us about it! The new BAAS Teaching Prize is accepting submissions until 1 May!

    Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest by Casey A. Huegel

    In 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio’s outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold War communities by negligent radioactive waste disposal. Casey A. Huegel tells the story of the unlikely partnership of grassroots activists, regulators, union workers, and politicians that responded to the event with a new kind of environmental movement.

    Against Extraction: Indigenous Modernism in the Twin Cities by Matt Hooley

    In Against Extraction Matt Hooley traces a modern tradition of Ojibwe invention in Minneapolis and St. Paul from the mid-nineteenth century to the present as that tradition emerges in response to the cultural legacies of US colonialism.

    Catholicism and Native Americans in Early North America: Parish, Church, and Mission Edited by Kathleen Deagan

    Catholicism and Native Americans in Early North America interrogates the profound cultural impacts of Catholic policies and practice in La Florida during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

    Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit by Say Burgin

    Organizing Your Own shows that the Black freedom movement never experienced a “white purge,” and it offers a new way of understanding Black Power’s relationship to white America.

    Job Opportunity: Research Events Producer, British Library

    The British Library is looking for a p/t Research Events Producer (Fixed term: 18 months - 21.6 hrs per week, salary £33,600 pro rata). Deadline 12 May.

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