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"An indispensable contribution to the study of Black speculative production." - Reynaldo Anderson, co-editor of Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise of Astro-Blackness "Meticulous and exciting, Audiofuturism fills in a major gap in the history science fiction, radio dramas, the Jim Crow era, and speculative Black studies." - Shanté Paradigm Smalls, author of Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City

Join us for the next Faulkner Studies in the UK colloquium, celebrating 90 years of Absalom, Absalom!, on May 2nd–3rd, 2026, online via Zoom.

Please consider submitting abstracts for a guaranteed stream of panels on Early American Environments to be held at next year’s Society of Early Americanists conference (March 18-20, 2027, Chicago). We are interested in scholarship that considers questions of environment and ecology in the early Americas, broadly defined to include the transatlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific worlds.

An important new book on the history of the city of Glasgow and its connections to North America has just been published by Peter Lang. Portable City: Modern Glasgow's Transatlantic Connections is edited by Stephen Bowman and Kieran Taylor and includes contributions from new and established scholars on both sides of the Atlantic, including Kevin James, Tanja Bueltmann, Craig Lamont, and James J. Smyth. 

In this surprising and illuminating collection, an all-star lineup of our finest historians of America delivers essays at once profound and personal. Two and a half centuries after the Declaration of Independence, we are a nation in search of our soul, and this book offers us some much-needed guidance through the tangles of the present. - Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

"The Disaffected offers an intimate view of the American Revolution, as lived by the civilians in and around Philadelphia while they contended with the parties battling for control of the revolutionary capital." - Journal of American History "[A] fascinating look at the plight of a group of Philadelphia civilians known as the 'Disaffected' as they experienced the early days of the Revolution and the British take-over of their city." - Journal of the American Revolution