Review: HOTCUS Postgraduate Conference, ‘Endangered America: Processing the Threat of Annihilation’
In the fourth of our review series for the HOTCUS Postgraduate Conference, ‘Winning Minds and Hearts: Constructing National Identity in US History’, Jennifer O’Reilly reviews a panel featuring Andrew Monteith (Indiana University) and Mark Eastwood (University of Nottingham). The notion of America under threat has circulated in popular discourse for decades and remains a prominent concern today. In a recent poll featured in USA Today, conducted by Monmouth University, 78% of respondents said that they felt the American way of life was under threat ‘a great deal’ or at least ‘some’.
Review: HOTCUS Postgraduate Conference, ‘Situating Servicemen and Women: African American Soldiers during World War Two’
‘Winning Minds and Hearts: Constructing National Identity in US History’, HOTCUS Postgraduate Conference, Northumbria University, 9 September 2016. In the third of our review series for the HOTCUS Postgraduate Conference, ‘Winning Minds and Hearts: Constructing National Identity in US History’, Jennifer O’Reilly reviews a panel featuring Rosemary Pearce (University of Nottingham) and Ruth Lawlor (University of Cambridge). This follows Jon Coburn’s review of Professor Simon Hall’s keynote address, on Leonard Matlovich, and Natasha Neary’s review of the ‘Crossing Boundaries’ panel. ‘Situating Servicemen and Women: African American Soldiers during World War Two’ Panellists: Rosemary Pearce (University of Nottingham) and Ruth Lawlor (University of Cambridge) In addressing histories and experiences that are perhaps subordinated by dominant narratives of World War Two, this panel focused on the often overlooked experiences of African American soldiers, both during and after the war. The two excellent speakers, Rosemary Pearce and Ruth Lawlor, presented accounts of racial discrimination […]