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CfP: HOTCUS 2021 Winter Symposium: Americans in the World (Online)

HOTCUS 2021 Winter Symposium: Americans in the World, February 20, 2021, on Zoom. Jane Adams presided over the International Congress of Women in The Hague in 1915, Jesse Owens made sporting history at the Berlin Olympics in 1936, Eslanda Robeson attended the All-African Peoples’ Conference in Ghana in 1958, and in 1968 Dale Smith marched with German student activist Rudi Dutschke in Berlin. These individuals all played a crucial role in connecting America to the world and likewise played a central role in complicating the ideological underpinnings of the American Century abroad. In a field long dominated by an institutional focus on diplomatic exchanges, military interventions, and foreign trade, diplomatic history’s cultural turn has significantly shifted its gaze to the role of non-state actors—students, artists, missionaries, athletes, and scholars,  among others—to examine their impact on the United States’ connections with the world and their multivalent role in the creation of […]

HOTCUS Travel Award

HOTCUS welcomes applications from doctoral students and recent PhD graduates not yet in academic employment, as well as those on short-term (less than three years), fractional, or hourly paid contracts for its 2021 Travel Award competition. HOTCUS welcomes applications from doctoral students and recent PhD graduates not yet in academic employment, as well as those on short-term (less than three years), fractional, or hourly paid contracts for its 2021 Travel Award competition.  We especially encourage applications from BIPOC scholars. HOTCUS Travel Awards support research in any area of twentieth century United States history. Applications may be made for up to £500 for research travel and/or research expenses more generally during the 2021 calendar year.  There are no residency restrictions and travel may be to, or within, any country.  Given the current pandemic-related uncertainty surrounding research travel, if you plan to apply for research travel expenses we strongly recommend that you […]

CfP: HOTCUS 2021 Annual Conference (Online)

HOTCUS 2021 Annual Conference: Call for Papers Digital Conference – 7-11 June 2021 Plenary Speaker: Professor Connie Chiang (Bowdoin College) Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS) is delighted to invite paper and panel proposals for our 2021 annual conference. For the first time, the annual conference will take place digitally in order to provide the safest and most accessible venue for attendants. Despite the global context, we still hope to provide a space for scholars to share their research and socialize virtually with colleagues studying the history of the United States. Papers from members or non-members are welcomed on all topics concerning the history of the United States – broadly conceived – from 1890 to the present. The committee welcomes proposals for papers and panels covering all aspects of U.S. history, including (but not limited to): Citizenship, immigration, and migration Cultural and intellectual history Economic history Environmental history […]

HOTCUS 2021 Winter Symposium: Amerians in the World (Online)

The HOTCUS 2021 Winter Symposium will be held via Zoom on February 20, 2021. The theme of this year’s event is Americans in the World, and we are delighted to announce that the plenary speaker will be Dr Kaeten Mistry (University of East Anglia ), author of The United States, Italy, and the Origins of Cold War: Waging Political Warfare (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and co-editor of Whistleblowing Nation: The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of Secrecy (Columbia University Press, 2020).

HOTCUS Annual Conference 2021 (Online)

The 2021 HOTCUS Annual Conference will be held online during the week 7-11 June 2021. The plenary speaker will be Connie Chiang of Bowdoin College. The call for papers is now open and can be found here

Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford

Rothermere American Institute University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

1963: A Watershed Year? HOTCUS Winter Symposium, February 24, 2023  The Rothermere American Institute, Oxford The 2023 HOTCUS Winter Symposium provides a fitting occasion to reflect upon 1963, often described as a watershed year that shaped the direction of the 1960s and beyond. Several social movements gained momentum in 1963, including the civil rights movement, which received significant national coverage in Birmingham, Alabama and at the later March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique was published the same year, and is often interpreted as a key spark in the evolution of Second Wave Feminism. In June 1963, the secularization of public education received a significant push through the Supreme Court decision that banned Bible readings in public schools. Meanwhile, as Americans mourned the deaths of JFK and W.E.B. Du Bois, the Cold War context shifted in response to a ban on American travel and financial transactions in Cuba […]

Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford

Rothermere American Institute University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

1963: A Watershed Year? HOTCUS Winter Symposium, February 24, 2023  The Rothermere American Institute, Oxford The 2023 HOTCUS Winter Symposium provides a fitting occasion to reflect upon 1963, often described as a watershed year that shaped the direction of the 1960s and beyond. Several social movements gained momentum in 1963, including the civil rights movement, which received significant national coverage in Birmingham, Alabama and at the later March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique was published the same year, and is often interpreted as a key spark in the evolution of Second Wave Feminism. In June 1963, the secularization of public education received a significant push through the Supreme Court decision that banned Bible readings in public schools. Meanwhile, as Americans mourned the deaths of JFK and W.E.B. Du Bois, the Cold War context shifted in response to a ban on American travel and financial transactions in Cuba […]