24th Annual BrANCH Conference University of Warwick, 6-8 October 2017 Call For Papers Peter Parish Memorial Lecture: Emily West (University of Reading), “Reflections on the History and Historians of the Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves” Saturday Night Keynote: Jeff Forret (Lamar University) The BrANCH committee is pleased to invite proposals for panels and papers on all aspects of U.S. history from the period 1789-1917. We particularly encourage panels that open new lines of communication between established thematic specialties as well as individual papers that cut across traditional categories of historical inquiry in imaginative and innovative ways. Postgraduate contributions are especially welcome. Subsidies for UK-based postgraduate participants will be offered on a first come first served basis. Please send a brief CV and a summary of the proposed paper or panel (no more than three speakers per panel and 300 words per paper, please) by Friday 24 February […]

Call For Papers: “Voices of Dissent”: Social Movements and Political Protest in Post-war America Conference Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford 2 June, 2017 On the evening of April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered a historic speech before a crowd of 3,000 people at Manhattan’s Riverside Church. In his speech, entitled “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” King condemned the Vietnam War and American Cold War policy and characterized the U.S. government as the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world”. Describing Vietnam a  “victim deadly Western arrogance”, King detailed the war’s devastating effects on both America’s and Vietnam’s poor, and declared that it was a moral imperative for opponents of the war to use “every creative method of protest possible” to halt the war through non-violent means. In 2017, the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King’s Riverside Church speech, the Rothermere American Institute at the University […]