UCL Americas Research Network 2024 Conference – Historical Roots, Modern Realities: Nationalism Across the Americas

Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, 18-19 May 2023   The Rothermere American Institute is pleased to invite paper proposals for a Spring 2023 symposium entitled At the Junction: The Local, Regional, and National in US History, hosted by Bruce Schulman, Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History. A century ago, nearly three decades after enunciating the frontier thesis, Frederick Jackson Turner turned his attention to a different question: ‘Sections and Nation’. Facing abundant evidence of national economic, cultural, and political integration, Turner insisted on the continued vitality and enduring influence of local, state and regional forces in American life. In the twenty-first century historians have continued to interrogate how national, subnational, and transnational forces interact—writing about ‘the politics of scale’, ‘glocalization’, the ‘global heartland’, and the ‘middle tier’ of American federalism. In that spirit, we invite proposals for papers that investigate the relations between and among different scales and levels of […]