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,… Continue reading
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,… Continue reading
‘Panel 2B: Race, Rhetoric, and Visibility’, HOTCUS 2022 Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh, 22-24 June 2022 On the second day of the Historians of Twentieth-Century United States (HOTCUS) Annual Conference, three researchers presented their current works-in-progress under the topic of ‘Race, Rhetoric, and Visibility.’ To begin, Dr. Emily Brady (Teaching… Continue reading
The next episode in our series Eyes On Events, this week we are interviewing Megan Hunt about the upcoming HOTCUS Annual Conference at the University of Edinburgh. The conference is being held from the 22nd to 24th of June, in a hybrid format, and so attendance is possible either in-person or online. More… Continue reading
The next episode in our series Eyes On Events, this week we are interviewing Malcolm Craig about the upcoming HOTCUS 2022 Winter Symposium: The Manhattan Project Turns 80: Reflections on the Nuclear Age. The conference is being held on the 12th of March 2022, in-person at Liverpool John Moores University. More details… Continue reading
The next episode in our series Eyes On Events, this week we are interviewing Miguel Hernandez about the upcoming HOTCUS Annual Conference 2021. The HOTCUS 2021 Annual Conference is taking place from the 7th to the 10th of June on Zoom, and will feature a mix of pre-circulated papers and live panels… Continue reading
Co-organized by Uta Balbier (HOTCUS Coordinator and Senior Lecturer in Modern History at King’s College) and Jennifer Chochinov (third year Ph.D candidate in History at King’s College), ‘Americans in the World’ invited scholars to inquire how non-state actors connected the United States to the rest of the world and complicated… Continue reading
The next episode in our new series Eyes On Events, this week we are interviewing Jennifer Chochinov and Uta Balbier about the upcoming HOTCUS Winter Symposium 2021: Americans in the World. The HOTCUS 2021 Winter Symposium will be held via Zoom on February 20, 2021. You can register for this virtual event here:… Continue reading
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 Continue reading
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… Continue reading