News & Events

The next A19 seminar will take place on Friday 20 February from 2.00 to 4.00 PM (Central European Time) and will be dedicated to David Cusick (c. 1780-1840), the Tuscarora artist and historian, and author of Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations (1828). We are very pleased to welcome two speakers who will each present a paper on Cusick’s work: Christen Mucher (Smith College) and Sheila Byers (Oxford University). 

If you haven't followed the money, you don't know the real story of America's Revolution. Nothing reveals it more clearly than the life of Thomas Willing - early America's dominant merchant, first bank president and first central banker. Richard Vague shows how Willing bankrolled and helped save the Revolution before shaping the financial architecture of the new Republic. He was so influential that John Adams claimed Washington and Hamilton were governed by him. Yet Willing voted against independence, reflecting deep class conflict in 1776. Tension has shaped U.S politics since.

An essay competition on American politics for 16-19 year old students of A Level Politics (or similar qualifications).

If you are an A Level student, on Feb 25th 2026 attend the FT-APG Online A Level Conference to gain insight an understanding from academics and A Level teachers about how succeed in both the FT-APG essay competition and your A Level politics exam.

Call for Abstracts: Sex, Reproduction, and the Politics of Knowledge I am pleased to share the call for abstracts for our upcoming workshop on Sex, Reproduction, and the Politics of Knowledge at UCL Institute of the Americas. Please see the full CFA here: HTTPS://TINYURL.COM/366FXSCX The workshop will be held on Tuesday 26 May 2026 at UCL Institute of the Americas. We are delighted to welcome Professor Lina-Maria Murillo (UT Austin) as our keynote speaker. Please email submissions to emma-day@ucl.ac.uk or sandra.rodriguez.24@ucl.ac.uk by midnight, UK time on Friday 6th March.

The editors of JAS are delighted to share the news that Sian Round's article "Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit and Periodical Readerships," (JAS, 59:2, 2025) has been awarded the Research Society for American Periodicals Article Prize for 2024-25.