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📣 Looking for undergraduate and postgrad-taught dissertations written by UK-based students on 19thC US history for BrANCH’s Peter Parish Prize £200 and opportunity to be published in @anchistjournal.bsky.social! Deadline to submit November 3rd. Share widely!!

‼️ Kinder-BrANCH MA Fellowship 2027-28 applications now open! Rare opportunity for recent UG students to enroll in the Kinder Institute’s interdisciplinary 1-year Atlantic History and Politics program in Missouri, with full tuition covered and annual stipend. For more details, see below ⬇️

Still hot off the Johns Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social, get your copy of “The Soul of the House: Speakers of the US House of Representives, 1789–1861” by one of BrANCH’s own, Daniel Peart 📖🔥

The Faculty of Economics & Social Sciences & the Heidelberg Center for American Studies at Heidelberg University invite applications for a full professorship in American Studies with an expected start date of 1st April 2028. Deadline: 4th November Apply now: baas.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Honourable mention: The panel also wanted to commend Erin Shearer, for her article “Challenging the overseer: enslaved women’s violent resistance in the US antebellum South”: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We are pleased to announce the winner of the ANCH Journal Prize, for the best research article of the preceding year. The 2026 winner is Chana Kai Lee, for “Of counterhistories and black collective memory: enslaved people and the University of Georgia”: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@officialbaas.bsky.social’s 2027 awards are now open for submission, some of which will undoubtedly be of interest to BrANCH members Good luck to everyone!

Thank you to everyone at @branchuk.bsky.social for a wonderful conference. Looking forward to the joint conference with @hotcus.bsky.social this summer.

Excited to be at @branchuk.bsky.social this rainy weekend, presenting on Quakers, colonial diplomacy, and peace as political capital in Pennsylvania during the Seven Years’ War

Happy World Octopus Day 🐙! (Get it — Oct + 8) Also, BrANCH 2026 starts tomorrow 🎉 We have a fantastic programme this year ⬇️ www.branch.org.uk/warwick-2026 Hope everyone has lovely travels as we look forward to seeing wonderful friends new and old soon!

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The HCA invites applications for its annual Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion to be held from April 5-9, 2027. More general information: www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/...

Still plenty of time to apply for a position as an Assistant Prof. in US Legal History at UF. Applications due October 16. explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/54...

🚨 JOB OPPORTUNITY You have until Friday 25th Sept to apply for the role of Conference Manager, helping to deliver an extraordinary BAAS 2027 digital conference next spring. Learn more: baas.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

UK-based postdoctoral – or equivalent – researchers in the humanities and social sciences can still apply for the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. The deadline is 4 Nov for institutional applicants and 28 Oct for independent scholars. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4iwQQtI

⏳ Time is running out — only about a month left before BrANCH’s annual conference, this year at the University of Warwick (9-11 Oct 2026) ⏰🗓️ 🪾🇺🇸 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣ 🇬🇧🌲 Check out the fantastic programme below ⬇️

From the controversial Washington Navy Yard Strike of 1835 to Haymarket, Homestead, the General New Orleans Strike, & Pullman, the 19C is full of significant events in American labor history Happy US Labor Day!!!

SO excited to share the cover of my forthcoming book, Fruits of Their Labor, out with @ugapress.bsky.social next July!

Are you or a friend in Oxford this November?

The Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA) is thrilled to announce the Ellen Craft Essay Prize is now open for submissions. The Prize promotes & encourages the study of marginalised voices in American Studies at the PGR & ECR levels. Deadline: 7th December baas.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Potentially a good opportunity for funding if you are researching 19thC British periodicals on “Victorian” America…

CFP 📰 "The Black Press at 200", March 2027 This two-day symposium critically examines the past, present, & futures of the Black Press. Submit your proposal by 18th September. baas.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

New article out. First for the latest project on debt default in the Americas.

🗞️ Great opportunity to join as a Lecturer in American History for 12 months with the Manchester Metropolitan University, particularly for recent graduates and ECRs! See details below ⬇️

Check out our exciting new roundtable: “Challenges and opportunities in writing Black biography”, with Katherine Burns (Glasgow), Adam Domby (Auburn), @hngreen.bsky.social (Davidson) and @davidsilkenat.bsky.social (Florida): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you happen to find yourself in London next weekend, at the Camden Fringe, there will be a 19th century-themed historical drama exploring the complicated relationship between the Shakespearean-actor Edwin and his infamous brother John Wilkes Booth — could be interesting!

Check out the latest issue of American Nineteenth Century History - with articles on Jefferson's life and legacies, Malthusian politics in the US South, convict leasing, culture, temptation, and the US Civil War: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fanc20/c...

A lot of interesting Nineteenth Century history on Princeton U Press’s reading list! 🏔️🇺🇸

📣 @shaw-society.bsky.social is looking for papers for its upcoming Gender and History in the Americas seminar series 2026-27 Deadline to submit: 31 July 2026 See more details below ⬇️

Awesome pop up exhibition about American Independence through a British lens, including many hidden histories!

Many congratulations to @daviddoddington.bsky.social on receiving the Social History Society 2026 Book Prize 🥳 “Old Age and American Slavery” is a must read!

Come and spend the next academic year embedded in our curatorial teams Two exciting fellowships are open to postdoctoral, early-career researchers which can be undertaken over 12-months full-time or part-time equivalent, as part of the Joanna and Graham Barker Fellowship Scheme Find out more👇

Friday 10 July is also the closing date for applications for the Society's next round of Teaching Fellowships: bit.ly/3QRapBH Grants support projects in innovative teaching practice, or studies of #History teaching in higher eduction. Fellowships are named for Jinty Nelson, RHS President 2000-04.

🚨 Reminder: less than a month to submit your pieces for the Harriet Tubman Prize 🏆 www.branch.org.uk/tubmanessayp...

Hope everybody had a great July 4th 🇺🇸 – as we reflect on the nation’s 250th birthday, why not check out this piece on Abraham Lincoln’s evolving appreciation of the Declaration of Independence by Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

And also time to sign up for our graduate conference before! Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/america-at...

Also, a shout-out for @bethrwilson.bsky.social’s new must read book, ‘I Felt All This’: Enslaved People’s Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South

Still time to sign up for the Commonwealth Fund Lecture being hosted by @ucl.ac.uk this Thursday at 17:30! Professor Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire) will be speaking on the American Revolution’s origins as an act of armed resistance and its continuing legacies!!

🗞️ @officialbaas.bsky.social is inviting applications for 3 positions at the Journal of American Studies, 1 co-editor and 2 associate editor roles (book review and features) Advertisement below👇

🚨 Time is running out to apply for this round of Peter Parish Travel Grants — up to £1000 for PGRs & ECRs to travel to the USA for conferences or conducting archival research (including remotely) on nineteenth century American history! See the details below👇

Today marks the anniversary of Denmark Vesey’s arrest, among many others rebelling against slavery in South Carolina — read more about the Vesey Conspiracy in @anchistjournal.bsky.social!

📢 Interesting ANCH-esque talk this Thursday in London hosted by @ihr.bsky.social: Dr. Catriona Byers on “a history of corruption at the New York morgue c.1860s-1890s” ⚰️

What do you get when you add 33 & 250? BrANCH 2026 at Warwick, 9-11 October!!! Registration now open — come celebrate our 33rd annual conference as we reflect on the USA at 250! Speakers include the incomparable Mia Bay and sagacious @profmsinha.bsky.social. Plus, many more (check out the card)