I am humbled to give the Iwan Morgan Lecture this year. I feel the weight of giving a talk on the intellectual labour of US Arab diasporic thinkers, pushing for Palestinian liberation, amidst the ongoing genocide. I’ll do my best to do the subject justice. history.ac.uk/events/2024-iw…

💐 RIP #JamesLawson — civil-rights theoretician — titan of the fight for peace. Lawson was a war resister, linking study & struggle — from Nagpur, Maharashtra to Nashville, Tennessee. A university expelled him. Cops arrested his mentees like John Lewis. They made history... 🙌🏽

.Royal Historical Society invites applications for its Funded Book Workshops, 2024-25 bit.ly/4bZMNjI Workshops are for mid-career historians writing a 2nd or 3rd monograph. Awards support full day seminars with 6 specialists to discuss a project / text in detail #twitterstorians

🔔Late-breaking but exciting news for UK-based historians of the Americas🔔 Alongside Tanya Harmer Jake Subryan Richards Imaobong Umoren Richard Saich and Anna Cant, I'm really pleased to invite applications for a networking event & dinner at LSE International History on July 30!

Please register to vote. Don’t let them claim the “under 35s” are disengaged. Spoil your ballot if you don’t have an acceptable option locally. They still have to count you!

Southern by the Grace of God is now listed on the UGA Press website, and available for pre order! ugapress.org/book/978082036…

That’s a wrap on HOTCUS 2024 at the U of Southampton HOTCUS Conference 2024: University of Southampton! Thank you to all our panellists and attendees for their contributions and the thought-provoking conversations that they stimulated. Special thanks to Randall Stephens for a fantastic keynote. Looking forward to 2025!

A reminder of this networking event and dinner for UK-based historians of the Americas, broadly conceived. Please do be in touch if you’re interested in joining us on July 30!

Call for papers! Click on the link here to find information about submitting to present at our 2024-25 American History Research Seminar - rai.ox.ac.uk/article/call-p…

Labour candidate, Jovian Owusu-Nepaul who started ‘gaining more retweets than Keir Starmer’ has been sent to campaign in the Midlands away from where he is standing in Clacton, Essex, after “distracting” from the Labour leader’s campaign. Sigh theguardian.com/politics/artic…

BREAKING: The Lancet has just published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures. thelancet.com/journals/lance… thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Career Development Fellow in Modern American History at Durham University ⁦BrANCH⁩ jobs.ac.uk/job/DIU814/car…

This was such a great event! Thanks Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson and LSE colleagues for organising and bringing us together

Historians of the U.S.! Would you like to get feedback on your work in progress (Phd/book chapter/article) at the HCAatEdinburgh American History seminar in 2024-25? We have some modest funds for travel, or can host online, so reach out via DM or email. BrANCH HOTCUS

Can confirm that presenting here during my PhD was both fun & incredibly valuable!

Exciting to see Southern by the Grace of God listed amongst a bumper crop of forthcoming books from UGA Press!

Ta-Nehisi Coates on DNC: “Despite the appeals of Palestinian American delegates and activists, no Palestinian American is scheduled to address the convention from the main stage. I suspect this is because of what such a speaker might feel compelled to say” vanityfair.com/news/story/dnc…

The Democrats quietly dropped abolishing the death penalty from their party platform. This is the first time since 2012 the platform doesn't call for abolition and the first time since 2004 there's no mention of the death penalty at all huffpost.com/entry/democrat…

📣2025 HCA Spring Academy for PhD students in American Studies - Call for Applications! Apply for the HCA's interdisciplinary Spring Academy! Deadline: Nov 1st 2024 See more info 👇 hca.uni-heidelberg.de/spring/index_e…

Nationalise Ticketmaster.