Also, congrats to Sajidha Khatun, winner of the 2025 Harriet Tubman Essay Prize, as well as good news to us all as we can now read her award-winning essay, “Illustrating Belief: The Influence of Religion in Hammett Billings’ Work” online! www.branch.org.uk/tubmanessayp...

Two tenure-track positions in Nineteenth Century American history (in the US) have come across my radar if anyone is interested! www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta... www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

The latest issue of "American Nineteenth Century History" is now out! 🙌 This special issue's focus is "Universities and Slavery," it is edited by Benedict Carton & Natalie Zacek, and features contributions from Chana Kai Lee, George D. Oberle III & Wendi N. Manuel-Scott

Reminds me that history as a discipline talks about the past but speaks to the present and future, and how we interpret matters Also, #ANCH is once again ahead of its time.

Speaking of, mark your calendars for a fantastic discussion with Dr. Catriona Byers and Dr. Laura Wilson about exploring alternative careers beyond academia, such as with libraries, archives, media and publishing! 🗓️ Wednesday, 15 October 🕐 17:30 - 18:30 (GMT) 📍 Online

A fond farewell and ‘tip of the hat’ to Mia Edwards, Aisha Djelid, and Liz Barnes who are retiring from our committee — thank you so much for making BrANCH such a wonderful and welcoming community!

Another fantastic BrANCH conference for the ages (our first in Cymru/Wales!) A big thank you to organisers David and Gareth, Emily and the BrANCH Committee, the kind staff at the Leonardo Hotel, and all of you for making it such a success!

Questions for anyone who has taught or taken a college-level survey of US History up to 1865. Teachers: What are your favorite primary source materials to teach? Students: What assignments have you found meaningful and memorable?

Royal Historical Society vacancy: Events and Academic Engagement Officer bit.ly/3V8q5PC We look to appoint an Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) to join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £36,433 pro rata. Closing date: Sunday 5 October #Skystorians

@branchuk.bsky.social @anchistjournal.bsky.social BrANCH/BGEAH conference looking real now. Who doesn't love putting name tags into plastic wallets and lanyards. Rock n roll...

For the newest issue of the IMF's Finance & Development Magazine, I explore the contradictions of 19th-century globalization, and their parallels with today. www.imf.org/en/Publicati...

You can't teach U.S. history without "divisive" narratives. Slavery wasn't "unifying." The Japanese incarceration wasn't "unifying." The anti-immigrant Operation Wetback (real name) wasn't "unifying." It's history's job to tell the truth, not cover up past racism to pave the way for future racism.

There's only one week left to register for our upcoming conference in Cardiff 🚨 Details below - don't miss out!

Applications still open for this exciting opportunity. Happy to take questions via DM or email.

Calling all PGRs/ECRs 📣 In collaboration with @hotcus.bsky.social we are hosting a workshop at the Rothermere Americation Institute this November! Participants can meet other junior scholars, get feedback on works-in-progress, and take part in academic publishing and ‘viva survivor’ sessions 💪📚

Delighted to rejoin the amazing @ppfideas.bsky.social, this time to discuss ‘monopoly’ for its ‘history of bad ideas’ series. Featuring Henry George, Lizzie Magie, Leo Tolstoy, Sun Yat-sen, J. A. Hobson, and V. I. Lenin just to name a few.

Registration is now open for our 2025 conference in Cardiff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Hosted in collaboration with BGEAH, this year's conference has an excellent programme of speakers, including keynotes from @timlockley.bsky.social (Warwick) and Catherine Kelly (William & Mary/OIEAHC)! Check it out 👇

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Exciting news - the journal is looking for a new book review editor or editors! For details of the role and how to apply, visit the journal website at: www.branch.org.uk/anch Deadline: 28 July 2025 📚✒️

Calling all UK-based PGRs/ECRs 📣 Are you planning your next conference visit or research trip stateside? Apply for one of our Peter Parish Travel Grants for up to £1000 towards your trip! Our next round closes in TWO WEEKS on July 1st - don't miss out!

Closes today!!

Our Harriet Tubman Essay Prize closes this Friday - 13th June! 🚨 The prize celebrates the best undergrad essay on 19thC US History written by a BAME student. There's lots of amazing work out there - make sure to encourage your students to submit! More details 👇

Registration is now open for our 2025 conference in Cardiff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Hosted in collaboration with BGEAH, this year's conference has an excellent programme of speakers, including keynotes from @timlockley.bsky.social (Warwick) and Catherine Kelly (William & Mary/OIEAHC)! Check it out 👇

Our Harriet Tubman Essay Prize closes this Friday - 13th June! 🚨 The prize celebrates the best undergrad essay on 19thC US History written by a BAME student. There's lots of amazing work out there - make sure to encourage your students to submit! More details 👇

The @royalhistsoc.org sponsored @branchuk.bsky.social Harriet Tubman Essay closes soon on the 13th June! Please do get students to submit - details here: www.branch.org.uk/tubmanessayp...

Feels a bit absurd to be promoting this, but there's a 12 month 18/19th C American history post at Cardiff. Deadline 15.06.25. Feel free to msg or contact me via email - [email protected] - for further information: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

🚨HOTCUS Committee Elections!🚨 It's that time of the year, when the HOTCUS Committee step down and we invite members to nominate themselves for one of the positions.The deadline for nominations is Friday May 23rd at 17:00 (BST), and all the information is on the website. hotcus.org.uk/about-hotcus...

This is happening this Friday @officialbaas.bsky.social ! Come for a virtual chat over an home-brewed beverage of your choice, write, circle back. Hosted by yours truly with the company of our GREEN BAAS members. Postgrad students and ECRs very welcome! Registration link below 👇

🌺 Spring is in the air & this season's BAAS School Newsletter has arrived! This issue focuses on the political ideas that shaped this world & continue to reverberate in contemporary US politics.

Today is the final day to submit a proposal for our upcoming conference in Cardiff! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 You can find more info and details of how to apply on our website 👇

Fascinating OPEN ACCESS article by @aishadjelid.bsky.social in ANCH on forced reproduction in the antebellum South, filling an important gap in the historiography of American slavery - read and share free of charge using this link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @branchuk.bsky.social

There's not much time left to submit a proposal for our BrANCH-BGEAH conference in Cardiff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🚨 Bonus points for those spanning the long 19th century - from Independence to imperialism, women's rights to worker's activism, Harriet Tubman to Ida B. Wells... Find more info & details of how to apply👇

The Faculty of History and the RAI are delighted to announce that expressions of interest are now invited for the Harmsworth Visiting Professorship of American History for the academic years 2027-28, 2028-29, and 2029-30. Details: www.rai.ox.ac.uk/vacancies.

I know there’s a lot going on but… I am very excited to share the cover for my book - “The Republican House Divided: Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and the Transformation of the GOP” - which is forthcoming this Fall with @uscpress.bsky.social! Pre-order here: uscpress.com/The-Republic... 🗃️

Hot off the presses - and OPEN ACCESS - this article considers the different ways that English and American universities have uncovered, publicised, and responded to their historical connections to transatlantic slavery - please share 📚 🎓 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There's not much time left to submit a proposal for our BrANCH-BGEAH conference in Cardiff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🚨 Bonus points for those spanning the long 19th century - from Independence to imperialism, women's rights to worker's activism, Harriet Tubman to Ida B. Wells... Find more info & details of how to apply👇

Excited to share a new open access piece in ANCH by Professor Adam Smith of @raioxford.bsky.social on Gettysburg and American history #Gettysburg #CivilWar #AmericanHistory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A reminder that the deadline for the Call for Papers for the HOTCUS Annual Conference (18-20 June 2025 - Lancaster University) is this Sunday, March 2! All the details are on our website at hotcus.org.uk/events/annua... The deadline for our PG/ECR workshop led by Andrew Prescott is also on Sunday.

If you’re a UK-based US historian you should definitely consider putting in for this, especially if you’re PhD/ECR. BrANCH is such a welcoming conference for those starting out in academia, and this year it’s teaming up with BGEAH! What could be better???

We're thrilled to open the call for papers for the 2025 BrANCH Conference, to be held jointly with the British Group in Early American History (BGEAH). This year’s conference will be hosted in Cardiff, Wales on September 12-14, 2025! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Find out more info & how to apply on our website 👇

We're thrilled to open the call for papers for the 2025 BrANCH Conference, to be held jointly with the British Group in Early American History (BGEAH). This year’s conference will be hosted in Cardiff, Wales on September 12-14, 2025! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Find out more info & how to apply on our website 👇

Hey historians and Black Studies scholars, I'm putting together my syllabus for Black Atlantic History II (1800s-Present) and I could use some help. Feel free to tag your own work.

@branchuk.bsky.social @officialbaas.bsky.social Important (and timely) research from a forthcoming special issue on Slavery and Universities: Scott, 'A memorial methodology from “another field”: a liberatory praxis': American Nineteenth Century History (Feb 25) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This Friday (Feb 14th) at 1pm, Dr David Sim will be presenting his current book project "Seward & Co: Emancipation & Empire in the Civil War Era" with @shafrhistorians.bsky.social! 📖 Anyone is welcome to attend the online paper - to register, email [email protected]!

If you want to hear more about the relationship between the burgeoning US pharmaceutical sector of the nineteenth century and enslaved women’s poisoning practices, please sign up for my talk next week at the IHR! www.history.ac.uk/events/dange...

If you're looking for news from fellow historians, try our Starter Pack of #History societies and networks go.bsky.app/68FsvjY. With 100+ organisations working for history, it offers information on events, funding and campaigning for our discipline and profession: UK, Europe & RoW #skystorians

For the #JERWinter2024 special issue, "The Revolution at 250," a unique conversation between experts T. H. Breen, Kathleen Duval, Leslie M. Harris, Michael D. Hattem, Serena Zabin is freely accessible through @projectmuse.bsky.social & @uncpress.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...

shawsociety.net/2025-confere... Last chance to submit proposals for the Society for the History of Women in the Americas conference. Co-hosts: @universityofleeds.bsky.social and @leedsbeckett.bsky.social @branchuk.bsky.social @officialbaas.bsky.social @baasusso.bsky.social @raioxford.bsky.social

Are you a PGR/ECR looking for some committee experience? Our sister journal American Nineteenth Century History is hiring a (paid!!) Social Media Editor! Make sure to get your applications in before the deadline closes on Jan 6th ⏳ You can find more info & details of how to apply on our website 👇

Are you a PGR/ECR looking for some committee experience? Our sister journal American Nineteenth Century History is hiring a (paid!!) Social Media Editor! Make sure to get your applications in before the deadline closes on Jan 6th ⏳ You can find more info & details of how to apply on our website 👇

🗃️ What do migrants do, feel, think, and carry--on the eve of departure, in transit, and when returning home? Figuring out some of the answers w/ @irpinaingiro.bsky.social & our authors in Rituals of Migration @nyupress.bsky.social was a real joy. We just received proofs! nyupress.org/978147982513...