From one @lsupress.bsky.social author of Irish Americans in the Civil War to another - absolute pleasure to review @irishacw.bsky.social’s book!

Now accepting applications for the John G Winant Visiting Professor role within the RAI at Oxford for 2027-28, 2028-29 and 2029-30- Details here: www.rai.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

BBC Radio 4 are marking the USA's semiquincentennial with a two-part adaptation of the musical '1776' (the most successful musical about the American Revolution not written by Lin-Manuel Miranda). Starring Alfred Molina as Benjamin Franklin(!). Listen to Part 1 here. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

CfP: One week left to get your proposals in! 👇

🏆 Good news - the submission window has been extended to 6th January for multiple BAAS Awards including... * School Essay Award * Undergraduate & Postgraduate Essay Awards * Teaching Development Awards Learn more & make your submission here:

Have you got a new book out about Irish America? Regardless of discipline, if it came out in 2025, you can submit it to the ACIS Lawrence McCaffrey Prize for Books on Irish America! You need to fill out the form on this website and the books need to be sent by 1 January! acisweb.org/mccaffrey-pr...

Hi #skystorians 👋 I'm hoping to put together a panel for the SHA 2026 Annual Meeting. My paper would analyse Dwight Eisenhower's 1962 visit to South Carolina and assess his (post-presidential) relationship with southern Republicanism. If that fits with your panel ideas, please do get in touch! 🗃️

I regret to inform you that I am going to start promoting my book on here. I do not regret to inform you that the press has given it a stunning cover. The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants -- out next summer with Princeton University Press. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

This book (and all others by @edinburghup.bsky.social) are half price this weekend from their website: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-frederi...

I was very smug at having got this one last night at 3 points until they revealed the third clue and I realised the answer wasn't "American Studies academics at Northumbria and the cities where they've presented conference papers."

For anyone who wants to have a listen to my RTE History Show chat last night about the 250,000 Irish Americans who served in the U.S. military during the Civil War, you can now listen to that section of the show here: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Delighted to see my open access article on Modjeska Simkins and Black Female Leadership appear in a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice honouring Richard H. King - a fine historian and wonderful man. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣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

🚨 One week left to apply for the Peter Parish Dissertation Prize! www.branch.org.uk/parishdisser...

Great to see President Trump has been reading @elsadevienne.bsky.social's award-winning book, "Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles" and has been reflecting on the history of the "beach body." global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Congratulations to our colleague @elsadevienne.bsky.social on winning this year's W. Turrentine Jackson Award from the Western History Association! 🍾🏆⛱️

A nice job has opened in my department at Cambridge: Assistant Prof. in US History since 1920. Please share widely! No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️ www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

The Northumbria History Society is recruiting new members for the year ahead! Find their stall in the city campus Students' Union (in Escape).

👩 Meet Linda Maraniss ⭐ In 1986, she visited Padre Island National Seashore, in Texas. 🏖️ She expected a beach. 🤢 She found a landfill. ▶️ Listen to ep 2 of our "Early Heroines of Plastic Pollution" series to find out what happened afterwards tinyurl.com/4xsvnbv3 #InternationalCoastalCleanup

From the latest issue of 'History' (@hisjournalha.bsky.social): a roundtable on 'US Universities and the State: Perspectives from the Twentieth Century' w/ contributions from @kateballantyne.bsky.social, @tomasirish.bsky.social, @charle.bsky.social, and Christopher P. Loss. doi.org/10.1111/1468...

BAAS Wants You. There is still time to register your interest in a role as chair (or co-chair) of our Women in American Studies Network (WASN). Get in touch before 1st September -

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

This Thursday (26.06, 3pm BST), GREEN BAAS (@officialbaas.bsky.social) will be hosting a double book launch via Zoom - ‘Energy for What? Ideas and Ideologies in US environmental history’ - featuring our colleague Rebecca Wright (@rebwright.bsky.social). Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Big day for awards! Congratulations to our PhD candidate, Paula Murphy (@paula-murphy.bsky.social) who has won a 2025 Doctoral and EC Research Award from @hotcus.bsky.social to support work in NYC for her project, ‘Whatever Happened to Unity? Co-Curation and Resistance in Hip Hop’s First Decade.'

SAND RUSH has won a prize 😃🏖️! Many thanks to all the colleagues at UEA+the Arthur Miller Institute for their hard work championing new research in American studies🇺🇸! This prize is a collective Northumbria AMS win: the book was made so much better just from hanging out with my smart colleagues 💜

Congratulations to our colleague Dr Elsa Devienne (@elsadevienne.bsky.social) on winning the Arthur Miller Institute First Book Prize (awarded by BAAS/UEA's Arthur Miller Institute of American Studies) for 'Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles' (OUP, 2024).

How exciting. Thrilled to see my Loretta Lynn article and the famous claret & blue silks in such august scholarly company for the Kentucky Derby article run-off. Many thanks to the @kyhistsoc.bsky.social for such a fun event. @nuamstudies.bsky.social @officialbaas.bsky.social @hotcus.bsky.social

This is awesome - honoured to have my Loretta Lynn essay included among such fine scholarship in the 2025 Register of Kentucky History Derby - and bowled over by the West Ham-leaning silks! @northumbriauni.bsky.social @nuamstudies.bsky.social @officialbaas.bsky.social @hotcus.bsky.social

It's publication day for "Green & Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military: 1861-1865"! Now available for purchase in hardcopy and ebook. It examines the experience of the c.250,000 Irish Americans who served in U.S. forces, making use of 100s of letters by enlisted men to wives and mothers.

#CrossToonTraffic - a fab, student-curated mini-exhibition celebrating some of the African American musicians who appeared in Newcastle during the 1950s and 1960s is on at Newcastle City Library until April 28. Nostalgia-a-GoGo! @northumbriauni.bsky.social. @nuamstudies.bsky.social.

Ever wanted to ask questions about the #history of the Black Panther Party? Joe Street from @nuamstudies.bsky.social is here to talk about his new book Black Revolutionaries: A History of the Black Panther Party, & answer all your questions about this revolutionary movement!

Our own Joe Street is participating in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything). Questions about Joe's recent Black Panther Party book are particularly welcome, but as the rules suggest, feel free to ask about anything! Joe will be responding until 11am tomorrow. www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Many thanks to @kyhistsoc.bsky.social for making this podcast happen. @nuamstudies.bsky.social

Many thanks to @michaeladamson.bsky.social for this review of books, including my own SAND RUSH, that give some background on the LA fires and why fires will continue to burn in the region. shepherd.com/best-books/w...

Book your place for this seminar now, before the (sand) rush!

Turns out French is an essential language for understanding the meanings and implications of the fires of Los Angeles. Fortunately for those of us who read English, @elsadevienne.bsky.social has translated her brilliant book Sand Rush, which is also essential reading on LA's environmental history.

On the day of President Jimmy Carter's state funeral, Newcastle city leaders led tributes at the Civic Centre. The US flag was lowered to half-mast and a wreath was laid on the Jimmy Carter stone, commemorating his visit to Newcastle in 1977, the first by a sitting US president.

In this blog post, Dr Joe Street applies "the page 99 test" to his new book, "Black Revolutionaries: A History of the Black Panther Party." page99test.blogspot.com/2024/12/joe-...

A few GREEN BAAS announcements for 2025: - Our 1st event of the new year is a collaborative, online writing session on Zoom Thur 16 Jan 2025 at 2-4pm (GMT). Connect, set an intention, write! Register for "let's writing together" here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @officialbaas.bsky.social

The British Library is advertising for a funded Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellowship working on their collections on topics related to Sustainability & Environment. - Duration is 4 months - you must be a UK resident - within 10 years of PhD www.bl.uk/more/researc... www.bl.uk/more/researc...

Our wagon train has arrived!