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At this month's U.S. Studies Online Book Hour on 30 May at 4pm BST, Dr Mary Burke will discuss her new book, "Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History," which explores the Irish-American identity within the American context of race. Book Hour is free to attend and open to everyone. Please reserve a free place to receive information about the Zoom meeting. Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ussobookhour-with-dr-mary-burkes-race-politics-and-irish-america-tickets-911249952137?aff=oddtdtcreator

BAAS is constructing a response to the REF 2029 Consultation on Open Access, and we would like to ensure that the views of the BAAS membership are represented in our response. If you have any comments relating to the REF Open Access proposals, please email chair@baas.ac.uk by 12th June 2024.

Join us to celebrate our 2024 winners at our digital award ceremony on Friday 14 June! You’ll find out who won the coveted best book/best first book prizes and much, much more!

Joanna Brooks reveals the harsh realities behind seventeenth- and eighteenth-century working-class English emigration—and dismantles the idea that these immigrants were drawn to America as a land of opportunity. Brooks follows American folk ballads back across the Atlantic, uncovering an archaeology of the worldviews of America’s earliest immigrants and a haunting historical perspective on the ancestors we thought we knew.

Saying No to Hate grounds readers in the history of antisemitism in America, emphasizing the strategies Jews have used to address threats and thereby preparing us to recognize, understand, and confront hatred today.

Across the United States, groups of grassroots volunteers gather in overgrown, systemically neglected cemeteries, they offer care to individuals who were denied basic rights and forms of belonging in life and in death. Cemetery Citizens is the first book-length study of this emerging form of social justice work. It focuses on how racial disparities shape the fates of the dead, and asks what kinds of repair are still possible by drawing on interviews, activist anthropology, and poems Rosenblatt dives into the ethical quandaries and practical complexities of cemetery reclamationtion.