New Book: Teaching American Studies in Britain
Teaching American Studies in Britain: Perspectives and Possibilities (ed. Megan Hunt and Lydia Plath) is out now! Purchase, read open access, or come to one of our launch events.
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Teaching American Studies in Britain: Perspectives and Possibilities (ed. Megan Hunt and Lydia Plath) is out now! Purchase, read open access, or come to one of our launch events.
Join Research Fellow Carmen Andall-Woodroofe for a recipe zine-making workshop that unearths food histories in Britain’s former Caribbean colonies. In this workshop you will hear stories of enslaved communities’ resistance against food insecurity at the hands of plantation owners told through key records at the British Library.
On Friday 30 October at 6pm at the Charterhouse in London, Rev’d Professor Maggi Dawn (Diocese of Rhode Island; formerly Cambridge, Yale, Durham) explores the legacy of former scholar Roger Williams. The lecture traces how his radical 17th-century English political ideas reshaped early American governance, examining his arguments for separating church and state and their civic echoes 250 years after the Declaration of Independence.
The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for its annual Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion to be held from April 5-9, 2027. The HCA Spring Academy provides 20 international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and thoroughly discuss their ongoing Ph.D. projects. The conference offers a forum for Ph.D. candidates in which they can present their research candidly and receive valuable feedback.
“Armando Prats’ Hollywood’s Imperial Wars is an incisive history and critique of the way war movies shaped Americans’ myth of heroic identity, and how filmmakers have responded to the fracturing of that myth by the failed wars in Vietnam and Iraq.”—Richard Slotkin, author of Gunfighter Nation
“This beautiful book is a five-star addition to the way New Mexico shares its long, diverse, and richly fascinating history. Historian Richard Melzer uses the well-selected images to conjure true stories that make irresistible reading. A History of New Mexico in 100 Objects deserves a place of honor in every bookshop, library, and waiting room from Abiquiu to Zuni.” - Anne Hillerman, New York Times bestselling author
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