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"Jack Marchbanks has written a valentine to those artist-activists who disrupted the tenor of a segregated nation and inched us closer to freedom." - Wil Haygood, author of The Butler: A Witness to History
British American Nineteenth-Century Historians (BrANCH) announces a search for new co-editors of its journal, American Nineteenth Century History, which was established in 2000 and appears three times a year from Taylor & Francis. To apply, please send a brief (no more than 5-page) c.v. and a 1-2 page letter of intent that discusses (a) your vision for the journal and (b) why this service would fit well with the current stage of your career, to ANCH co-editor, and incoming BrANCH Chair, David S. Doddington (doddingtond@cardiff.ac.uk) by June 1, 2026.
ALT-AC is a dynamic, responsive platform within the Journal of American Studies dedicated to engaging with the evolving landscape of American culture, politics, and society in real time. Moving beyond the traditional boundaries of academic publishing, ALT-AC offers a space where scholars, writers, and practitioners can reflect on urgent issues as they unfold, bridging the gap between scholarly analysis and contemporary public discourse.
On 19 May 2026, at University College London, Frederick M. Lawrence, Secretary and CEO of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and former President of Brandeis University, will be in conversation with Professor Larry Kramer, President and Vice-Chancellor of the London School of Economics and Political Science. They will explore the profound political, legal, and cultural pressures reshaping US universities.
"Gary Scharnhorst engages in a bold new experiment: he has assembled a vast archive of personal reminiscences about the author by people who knew him during each of the key phases of his extraordinary life. The result is a collage of impressions that serves to contextualise and, in some cases, to complicate the mythological persona that Mark Twain himself promoted and that his official biographers have often perpetuated." - Henry B. Wonham, author of Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale
"Cherny excels at showing how San Francisco's diverse inhabitants shaped the city's history. Readers will appreciate the dry humor that appears from time to time like morning fog at Ocean Beach on a chilly day in July. The book is a very readable survey based on the author's forty-plus years of scholarship." —William Issel, author of Church and State in the City: Catholics and Politics in Twentieth-Century San Francisco
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