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The BAAS Annual Conference 2025 Call for Papers is live. We are inviting submissions for the 70th Annual Conference for the British Association for American Studies (BAAS), which will be held at the University of Hertfordshire between 23rd and 25th April 2025. The deadline for proposals is Friday 22nd of November 2024.
BAAS are delighted to relaunch our small grants programme in conjunction with the US Embassy London. We are offering small grants of up to £10,000 for cultural, educational and outreach activities that will foster American Studies and lead to a more accurate and constructive understanding of the United States in the United Kingdom. We are also recruiting for TWO Academic Directors and THREE Review Panel Members to work on the Small Grants Programme. The closing date for both the Academic Director and Review Panel Member roles is 23 October 2024.
BAAS are delighted to relaunch our small grants programme in conjunction with the US Embassy London. We are offering small grants of up to £10,000 for cultural, educational and outreach activities that will foster American Studies and lead to a more accurate and constructive understanding of the United States in the United Kingdom. Applications are open now, with a deadline of 11 November 2024 for projects starting from 1 January 2025.
"Through deep research and fantastic images, Brooklynites presents a powerful portrayal of racism and Black struggles for freedom, written by a leading public historian and scholar of nineteenth century America. Read this book and you will never again think the same way about Brooklyn, and America's complicated, contradictory, hard-edged, and hopeful history." ~Brian Purnell, author of Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn
In Susan A. Brewer's fascinating The Best Land, she recounts the story of the parcel of central New York land on which she grew up.
“This is a richly textured, collective portrait of people coming of age in the Great Depression and World War II, who worked in one the largest and most important industries in the US and belonged to a union that led the labor movement and set the standard for wages and benefits in many industries.”--Lou Martin, author of Smokestacks in the Hills
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