American History Research Seminars 2023/24

List of American History Research Seminars at the RAI – academic year 2023/24

17 October 2023:

Forced Removal and the Politics of Refugee Recognition in the American Revolutionary War

James Mackay (Edinburgh)

31 October 2023:

A History of Black Women Photographers in the Civil Rights Movement

Emily Brady (Oxford)

7 November 2023:

The Culture of Exposure: State Secrets and Disclosures in Cold War America

Kaeten Mistry (UEA)

15 November 2023:

Discussion of the 2023 Harmsworth Lecture

Elizabeth Varon (Virginia) in discussion with Robert Cook (Sussex)

21 November 2023:

They Cry Liberty: Imperial Crisis and Revolution in Atlantic Africa

Bronwen Everill (Cambridge)

28 November 2023:

Suffrage Sceptics and Realists: A History of Reluctant Endorsements of Woman Suffrage in the United States, 1840s–1920

Hélène Quanquin (Université de Lille)

16 January 2024:

Liberated Africans and Imperial Institutions in the Early History of the Suppression of the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved African People

Jake Subryan Richards (LSE)

23 January 2024:

From Chicago to Lagos: Festac 77, Cold War Diplomacy, and the Transnational Parameters of Black Activism

Suzanne Enzerink (Sankt Gallen)

30 January 2024:

Angelica Schuyler: Making a Patriot Dynasty in the Age of Revolutions

Tom Cutterham (Birmingham)

31 January 2024 (event held at University College):

Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative

Jennifer Burns (Stanford)

6 February 2024:

Cable Ties: The Transatlantic Telegraph and American Culture in Britain, 1866-1914

Lewis Defrates (Cambridge)

5 March 2024:

Mourning Martyrs: Civil Rights Deaths and Museum Narratives

Jenny Woodley (Nottingham Trent)

23 April 2024:

"There is No Place Like a Happy Home": 'Information Wanted' Notices, the Christian Recorder, and the Idealization of the Black Family in Post-Emancipation America

Rebecca Fraser (UEA)

7 May 2024:

The Carbon Republic: Global Warming and American Political History

Andrew Needham (NYU)