American History Research Seminars 2024/25

List of American History Research Seminars at the RAI – academic year 2024/25

22 October 2024:

Imperial Odyssey: The USS Ticonderoga and the Search for U.S. Empire

Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)

29 October 2024:

"Waste places": Remaking the Plantation at Booker T. Washington's Tuskeegee Institute

Laura Wilson (British Library)

5 November 2024:

Frances Thompson: Race, Gender Non-Conformity, and Scandal in the White Conservative Press During Reconstruction

Elizabeth Barnes (Reading)

14 November 2024:

Harmsworth Lecture Response

Andrew Preston (Cambridge)

19 November 2024:

Roll Away The Stone: African American Gospel Music 1930-1965

Harvey G Cohen (KCL)

26 November 2024:

John Reed, Edgar Snow, Herbert Matthews, and the Question of Journalistic Truth

Simon Hall (Leeds)

3 December 2024:

Testimonies of Emotion: Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South

Beth Wilson (Oxford)

21 January 2025:

Morale: A Revolutionary Idea?

Krysten Blackstone (Salford)

28 January 2025:

Anishinaabe Albion: Indigenous Diplomacy, Performance, and Resistance in the British Isles

John Bird (Oxford)

4 February 2025:

"Harlem Interdit": Paris-Match and European Uses of Harlem, c.1964-c.1975

Andrew Fearnley (Manchester)

11 February 2025:

Glow Boys: Temporary Workers and the Making of Atomic Capitalism

Tom Bishop (Lincoln)

25 February 2025:

Rediscovering James W.C. Pennington, Black Reformed Minister and Activist

Jan Stievermann (Heidelberg)

4 March 2025:

The Cost of Sympathy: Perceptions of Suffering in the New York City Draft Riots

Joanna Cohen (Queen Mary)