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The Recursive Frontier (SUNY Press) is an innovative new spatial history of both the multiethnic literature of Los Angeles and the city itself in the mid-twentieth century. Setting canonical texts alongside underexamined works and sources such as census bulletins and regional planning documents, Michael Docherty identifies the American frontier as the defining dynamic of Los Angeles fiction from the 1930s to the 1950s.

We invite submissions of undergraduate coursework written on any area of American history in the long nineteenth century by students identifying as BAME in their second or third year of undergraduate study (third or fourth year in Scottish HEIs). Work should be 2500-3500 words in length, including footnotes but excluding bibliography. While we expect the thematic content to be broad, judges will consider the level of knowledge, writing style, degree of original thinking, and overall quality of the piece.

From Fidel Castro to Qassem Soleimani, The President's Kill List explores the US government's involvement in an array of assassinations and assassination attempts against foreign leaders and officials.

Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS) is delighted to release the provisional handbook and schedule for the HOTCUS Annual Conference 2024, which will be hosted at the University of Southampton from June 19-21. Our keynote speaker is Prof. Randall Stephens of the University of Oslo, with a paper entitled, "‘Socialism has been steadily battering at our gates’: The Roosevelt Administration and Religion in the Dust Bowl.”

We are inviting proposals for 20-minute papers on the Hulu Adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood’s famous dystopia. The symposium is multidisciplinary, so we invite papers from the fields of literature, language, social and political sciences, film studies, fashion, and music. Papers can approach the adaptation with reference to the following concepts, though the list is not exhaustive: • Dystopian and Speculative Fiction • Theory of Adaptation – creating the novel on screen • Exploring Gender • Sex, Desire, and Consent • Eco-Criticism • Music and its significance • Immigration

A Nation’s Undesirables: Mixed-Race Children and Whiteness in the Post-Nazi Era  Tracey Owens Patton, topatton@uwyo.edu