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    Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West, By William Grady

    2025 Best Single Author Book, Midwest Popular Culture Association 2025 Longlist, Reading the West Book Award in Nonfiction, Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association "Grady does a very good job detailing the trajectory of the comic Western genre...Unlike some books from higher education sources Grady does not go overboard with acadamese. The book remains readable and entertaining and educational." - Daily Cartoonist

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    We the Voters: The Constitutional Choices That Shape America’s Elections, By Lori Ringhand

    "Lori A. Ringhand's illuminating civic history text We the Voters combines constitutional analyses with accessible examinations of American democracy." —Foreword Reviews "We The Voters is a superb introduction to the complexities of the contemporary American system of representative government, particularly with regard to elections, introducing it in an extraordinarily accessible way. I don't know of any book that in so few pages covers so many important topics so well." —Sanford Levinson, author (with Cynthia Levinson) of Fault Lines in the Constitution

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    CFP One-Day Symposium “Trump/Brexit, ten years on: US/UK political theatre under the strain of contemporary instability”

    Sorbonne Université and Université Gustave Eiffel are pleased to announce a one-day symposium focusing on contemporary US/UK political theatres, to be held on Friday 6 November 2026. Abstract submission deadline is 15 May 2026.

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    International Symposium: Maps in American Literature (ENS de Lyon, April 1-3, 2026)

    Maps in American Literature: 15th-21st c. ENS de Lyon, France. Keynote speakers: Martin Brückner (U. Delaware), Sarah Sense (independent artist), Caroline Wigginton (U. Mississippi)

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    Stages Across the Atlantic: Theatrical Exchange, Past, Present & Future

    Please join the Eccles Institute for the Americas and Oceania, the Fulbright Commission, and the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art for a panel discussion on how theatrical ideas and talent have flowed across the Atlantic, shaping performance styles and cultural narratives in the UK and US on 16 April.

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    DEADLINE EXTENDED (April 7, 2025): Playing Politics: Sport, Power and Conflict in U.S. History

    "USAbroad: Journal of American HIstory and Politics" is inviting submissions for its 10th issue titled "Playing Politics: Sport, Power and Conflict in U.S. History". We seek articles that analyze sport as a political arena in its own right - one that has both reflected and actively shaped struggles over power, rights, and belonging. Please send your abstract and CV by April 7, 2026.

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