And we’re off! HOTCUS 2026 is all systems go.

📚Call out for panellists for book talk at @officialbaas.bsky.social!📚 We are delighted to partner with @marenostrumgroup.bsky.social to gather Americanists from all areas to discuss how thinking about America's founding influences our research and teaching. We're looking for 3-5 contributors!

Call for Applications: HOTCUS Annual Conference, PG/ECR Work-in-Progress workshop.

Call for Applications: HOTCUS Annual Conference, PG/ECR Work-in-Progress workshop.

There is still time to register for the 2026 HOTCUS Winter Symposium, “The American Nation in the Twentieth Century: The Declaration of Independence at 250," at the University of Liverpool next Friday (February 27).

The CfP is now open for the 2026 HOTCUS Annual Conference (University of Manchester, 1-3 July 2026). Please email all submissions to [email protected] by midnight, UK time on 25 March, 2026.

The CfP is now open for the 2026 HOTCUS Annual Conference (University of Manchester, 1-3 July 2026). Please email all submissions to [email protected] by midnight, UK time on 25 March, 2026.

Applications for the HOTCUS 2026 Research Awards are now open! (Read on for the small print)

Applications for the 2026 HOTCUS Article Prize and Early Career Article Prize are now open. Both awards recognise outstanding research on twentieth-century US history published in peer-reviewed journals during the 2025 calendar year, and each comes with a £100 prize.

Three days left to submit a proposal for our exciting Winter Symposium, The American Nation in the Twentieth Century: The Declaration of Independence at 250.

The HOTCUS Winter Symposium deadline has been extended until 10 January.

📣The Call for Papers for our 2026 Winter Symposium, The American Nation in the Twentieth Century: The Declaration of Independence at 250, is now open University of Liverpool, 27 February 2026

📣The Call for Papers for our 2026 Winter Symposium, The American Nation in the Twentieth Century: The Declaration of Independence at 250, is now open University of Liverpool, 27 February 2026

The 2025–2026 HOTCUS Mentoring Scheme is now open! If you work in 20th C US history and would like to have an academic mentor — or serve as one — please register your interest by 3 November 2025. More info and registration below 👇

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 💪📚

It's been an eventful month for us, so here's some news about what we have been up to. First, our annual conference gathered scholars from across Europe and the Americas to discuss 20th century US history. A special thanks goes to our Events Sec Megan Hunt for her tireless efforts to HOTCUS!

First time presenting at @shafrhistorians.bsky.social this week. Very happy to have presented with such brilliant historians on the @hotcus.bsky.social panel: “Revisiting Race, Gender, and Religion in Wars during the Long Twentieth Century.”

Absolutely delighted to receive this award that will support my research trip to New York! Massive thanks to @hotcus.bsky.social 🙌🏼

1) Last week was the 2025 @hotcus.bsky.social conference, and a great time was had by all! I presented a narrow slice of my ongoing research into the Cold War and RPGs, specifically and narrowly focusing on The Price of Freedom (1986). I was slightly taken aback by how positively it was received.

excellent few days at the @hotcus.bsky.social conference in lancaster! got some excellent feedback on my chapter at the pgr/ecr workshop with andrew preston, met a series of very lovely people, and, most importantly, got this sweet mug. had a blast at my first hotcus and will be back!

I had an amazing time presenting alongside these brilliant academics on gender and modern American conservatism at the HOTCUS annual conference! @hotcus.bsky.social

Had a great time presenting my research at @hotcus.bsky.social’s Annual Conference in Lancaster this week!

Coming up next week - June 26-28, 2025, the annual conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (#SHAFR) @shafrhistorians.bsky.social in Arlington, VA, check out this amazing program, honored to a part @oah.org @h-diplo.bsky.social 🗃️ www.shafr.org/assets/docs/...

Time for my paper at the @hotcus.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference! 🇺🇸🗃️

We are here for the last day of #HOTCUS2025, and still thinking through Professor Andrew Preston's thoughtful keynote of the emergence of national security.

Time for Day 2 of the @hotcus.bsky.social 2025 conference. Lots of exciting panels and sessions to come today 🇺🇸

We are looking forward to kicking things off after lunch for #HOTCUS2025 at Lancaster with our PG/ECR workshop led by Professor Andrew Preston! All the details at hotcus.org.uk/events/annua...

A small preview of the research we will be enjoying soon at Lancaster for the HOTCUS Annual Conference 2025! Check it out at hotcus.org.uk/events/annua...

🚨Registration for Annual Conference is open!🚨 Taking place at the University of Lancaster from 18-20 June, we have now opened registration for the HOTCUS Annual Conference. Full details and links for registration and schedule are available on our website hotcus.org.uk/events/annua... Please share!

🚨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...

Overly excited to get my hands on the new @hotcus.bsky.social mug merch! ☕️🗃️

We have one new , and reminders for four others 1. IHR North American History Seminar Iwan Morgan Lecture Prize, DUE TODAY Prize is awarded to a current or recently-completed doctoral student working on any aspect of North American History. For further information, check our website's front page.

Events 2026 Call for hosts!🚨 HOTCUS is seeking hosts for our 2026 events, including the Winter Symposium (February) and the Annual Conference (June). We can only run our events with member support and input, so please do consider if this is something that you can support at your institution!

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.

HOTCUS is pleased to announce that the application round for our 2025 Doctoral and Early Career Research Awards is open, offering up to £500 for research expenses and/or research travel to take place within a year after the date of application. Deadline is April 4 2025!

Now that we have the account up and running, here's our first post, with a few announcements from our weekly newsletter. You can find full details of each announcement on our website - hotcus.org.uk