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Rehab on the Range is the definitive work on the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm. A significant contribution to the untold history of the West, this is a well-told tale of drug use and incarceration in the context of oil boom-and-bust, migratory labor, and settler farm families’ adaptation to the painful rigor of their ways of life. Karibo’s flair for detail brings the institution and its unique brand of moral therapy to life. ~Nancy D. Campbell, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, coauthor of The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America’s First Prison for Drug Addicts

The School of History at the University of Leeds is looking to employ a short-term Project Assistant to support the development of an Engaged Research Network. This role is an exciting opportunity to be part of a project responding to calls from both the archival sector and the creative industries to develop trauma-informed approaches and embed therapeutic support in engaged research practices.

CALL FOR PAPERS Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature University College Dublin, Ireland 17-20 June 2025 Keynote Speakers – Prof. Sarah Brouillette (Carleton University) Prof. Christopher Newfield (Independent Social Research Foundation)

History Lab is proud to announce three exciting opportunities that may be of particular interest to PGRs & ECRs! We are delighted to announce that the 2024/2025 instalment of our Olivette Otele Paper Prize for Black PhD students is now open for submissions. We're also proud to launch our call for papers for two exciting upcoming PGR-focused conferences: "Teaching History in a Time of Crisis" in Warwick on 29 May 2025 and our 2025 Annual Conference at the Institute of Historical Research on 24 July 2025.

The 2025 HOTCUS Winter Symposium coincides with the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, and a number of important commemorative events in the United States and across the world. This anniversary provides an opportunity to reflect on the varied effects of this global conflict which triggered profound social and economic shifts in the United States, and also saw millions of American military personnel stationed abroad.

Building upon theories of affect and the everyday, Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020 analyses minimalist aesthetics within the writings of Joan Didion, Raymond Carver, Paul Auster and Don DeLillo, among others. The book argues that writers of American literary minimalism are uniquely privileged in their ability to formalize precarity and threatening cultural currents into the fragile construct that is ordinary life.