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“Jess Libow delivers a much-needed analysis of the impact of physical education on women reformers and their interventions in debates about citizenship. A well-written text that I see becoming an important reference for scholars of nineteenth-century American history and culture, women’s history, and history of medicine.”—Sara Crosby, The Ohio State University The history of women writing about health.

"Building codes are not a given but socially constructed, revealing much about the society that creates and implements them. By articulating the relations between low-quality forests, low-quality lumber, low-quality housing, and low-quality urbanism, Jeana Ripple helps explicate how Type V construction sanctions and structures inequity in American urbanism." - Kiel Moe, architect and author of Unless: The Unless: The Seagram Building Construction Ecology How building codes shaped material, social, and environmental landscapes in American cities.

“The case studies in The Peace Script are nuanced and insightful and the freshness of the subject and perspective taken produces a genuine contribution, which speaks to a current interest in matters of race, ethnicity, and gender.”- Robert Ivie, coauthor of Hunt the Devil: A Demonology of US War Culture Manthey’s analysis of protest rhetoric—ranging from speeches to newsletters to documentaries—illustrates how the study of grassroots activism is key to understanding how U.S. warfare is tied to debates about culture and national identity.

The New American Studies Journal: A Forum (Göttingen University Press) invites submissions for a forthcoming special issue in 2026 that focuses on Chinese American literature.

This report details the current contours of teaching about the US environment in UK Higher Education, presenting practical, actionable examples from American Studies educators at various career stages and in different disciplinary contexts.

Each year, BAAS offers a growing list of awards, prizes, teaching assistantships, and research assistant awards, supporting the development of American studies in Britain. The 2026 Awards are now open to submissions. Descriptions of our awards can be found on the BAAS Awards web page, with more detail on the submission requirements.