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• Five Questions with… Winant Visiting Professor of American Government Robert Lieberman
• Congress to Campus One Year On
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• Obituary: Godfrey Hodgson (1934–2021)
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• 2020 Carwardine Prize Announced
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• Nicholas Cole and The Quill Project Recognised in Vice-Chancellor's Innovation Awards 2020
• Winant Visiting Professors of American Government appointed for 2021-24
• Scholarship Report 2019-20: Daniel Abdalla
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• Scholarship Report 2019-20: Emma Day
• Scholarship Report 2019-20: Zachary Seager
• RAI Wellbeing: online sessions for housebound researchers
• Guest Article: What Would Good National Leadership Look Like Now?
• U.S. Ambassador's RAI Louis Lecture on Anglo-American relations: video now online
• America and Ireland's Easter Rising: video now online
• Podcast of 2018 Sir John Elliott Lecture now available
• 'Clive Sinclair is not Philip Roth': podcast now available
• Lizabeth Cohen wins Bancroft Prize
• “LGBT Americans for”: Presidential Elections and the Movement for Gay Rights, 1980-2020
• RAI Annual Report 2018-19 now available
• American History Research Seminar programme now available
• American Politics Graduate Seminar programme now available
• American Literature Research Seminar programme now available
• Red, White, and Brew resumes from second week
• Tessa Roynon curates exhibition in honour of Toni Morrison
• Introducing the CLAW-RAI Visiting Fellows Program
• Looking back on the life and work of Toni Morrison
• Alan Brinkley, 1940–2019
• Richard Carwardine honoured in Queen's Birthday Honours
• Incoming RAI Director Adam Smith appointed to the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission
• Horatio Joyce awarded Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Research Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Publications by former RAI fellows
• Farewell to Huw David on his last day at the RAI
• Noah Remnick receives Carwardine Prize for U.S. History M.St. students
• Huw David receives George C. Rogers Jr. book prize
• Stephen Skowronek to give Winant Lecture in American Government
• John McNeill to give 2019 Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History
• RAI student Mitch Robertson writes for the Washington Post
• New books by RAI fellows past and present
• Former Members of Congress Charles Boustany (R-LA) and Donna Edwards (D-MD) announced as Congress to Campus visitors
• Electronic newspaper collections acquired for the VHL
• RAI, St Peter's College and the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri seek to appoint a Junior Research Fellow in Atlantic History
• Huw David's 'Trade, Politics, and Revolution' published
• RAI Annual Report 2017-18 now available
• RAI and Gilder Lehrman Institute offer travel awards for research in New York City
• A Global History of Gold Rushes published
• Party convention databases now accessible through VHL
• Summer projects at the RAI
• VHL and Bodleian Libraries acquire access to War of 1812 e-resource collection
• Pete Millwood awarded LSE Fellowship
• Oenone Kubie wins HOTCUS Postgraduate Prize
• RAI celebrates 4th July with acquisition of major Revolutionary and Congressional resources
• Willie Lee Rose, 1927-2018
• RAI Fellow Alice Kelly reflects on the commemoration of war
• Call for papers - "Incredible: lying, credibility, and the truth in historical research"
• Sally Bayley's "Girl With Dove" released
• RAI student Emma Day awarded Schlesinger Library Dissertation Grant
• Richard Carwardine wins Abraham Lincoln Institute Annual Book Award
• RAI student Mitchell Robertson awarded James Holt Prize by Australasian Journal of American Studies
• VHL and Bodleian Libraries acquire San Francisco Chronicle, 1865-1984
• Mrs Drue Heinz, DBE, 1915-2018
• Stephen Skowronek announced as Winant Professor for 2018-19
• Podcast of 2018 Winant Lecture now available
• VHL and Bodleian Libraries acquire American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection (1684-1912)
• Former Congressmen Jim McDermott (D-WA) and Tim Murphy (R-PA) announced as Congress to Campus visitors
• Former Congressmen Jim McDermott (D-WA) and Tim Murphy (R-PA) visit RAI for Congress to Campus
• Barbara Savage and Peter Mancall announced as Harmsworth Professors for 2018-19 and 2019-20
• RAI and Bodleian Libraries acquire Daily Mail Historical Archive 1896-2004
• RAI Fellow Robert Schmuhl writes on Churchill in the White House
• Sally Bayley's literary memoir to be published by HarperCollins
• Call for Papers: The American Century? International History and Diplomacy in the 20th Century
• Former RAI fellows discuss Frederick Douglass on Radio 4's "In Our Time"
• David Sehat to deliver 2018 Winant Lecture in American Government
• RAI joins Ashmolean Museum for 'American Cool' exhibition, May 2018
• Emma Rothschild to deliver 2018 Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History
• Tom Cutterham and David Sehat in conversation
• RAI announces creation of Carwardine Prize
• RAI Fellow Tom Packer discusses Iowa caucus on BBC Radio's 'Sunday Supplement'
• Jay Sexton discusses President James Monroe with The Washington Post
• RAI's Ursula Hackett and Nigel Bowles discuss Donald Trump in The Independent
• RAI|Live: Andrea Wulf at the RAI
• American Voices International: RAI hosts launch of new PAC
• How the Republican Party can stop Donald Trump: RAI's Tom Packer tells BBC Radio
• America's Overseas Voters: How they could decide the US Presidency in 2016
• Gloria Steinem in Oxford
• RAI student wins prestigious Rockefeller research grant
• Desmond King and Lawrence Jacobs publish 'Fed Power: How Finance Wins'
• RAI Director of Development receives Hines Prize
• Sally Bayley's 'The Private Life of the Diary' acclaimed by reviewers
• RAI's Dr Tom Cutterham appointed Lecturer in US History at Birmingham
• 'The Not So Odd Couple: Richard Nixon and Daniel Patrick Moynihan': video now online
• Genius!: Lydia Davis delivers the 2016 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters
• RAI and Corpus Christi College seek applications for a stipendiary Junior Research Fellow on the United States and World War One
• U.S. Ambassador delivers second Ambassador John J. Louis Jr. Lecture in Anglo-American Relations
• Lloyd Pratt appointed Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature
• Sir Hew Strachan to deliver inaugural RAI Lecture at Chalke Valley History Festival
• RAI student Jane Dinwoodie awarded dissertation fellowship at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies
• Megan Armknecht receives inaugural Carwardine Prize for U.S. History M.St. students
• Richard Carwardine, Jay Sexton, and Ann Schofield elected Distinguished Fellows of the RAI
• RAI Fellow Tessa Roynon receives Toni Morrison Prize
• RAI Fellow Mary King discusses Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come" on BBC Radio 4 'Soul Music'
• RAI features in BBC4 documentary on Virago Press, Monday 31 October
• RAI's Kathryn Olivarius awarded Past and Present Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research
• Special American Politics Week begins Hilary Term at RAI
• Former Congressmen Vic Fazio (D) and Randy Neugebauer (R) announced as Congress to Campus visitors
• Alice Kelly wins public engagement competition with WW1 podcast
• RAI's Jane Dinwoodie elected to Cambridge junior research fellowship
• American expats cast their votes at the RAI on 'Super Tuesday'
• Could US overseas voters in UK, France, Canada and Israel swing key US states?
• New publications by RAI fellows
• RAI, St Edmund Hall and Christ Church announce creation of the Broadbent Junior Research Fellowship in American History
• Winant Lecture recording now available
• Mara Keire's research features in latest Atlas Obscura travel and architecture magazine
• Gareth Davies and David Sehat in conversation
• David Sehat and Daniel Walker Howe in conversation
• RAI welcomes International Ralph Ellison Symposium
• Mandy Izadi appointed Broadbent Junior Research Fellow in American History
• Alice Kelly writes in latest Times Literary Supplement
• The Trump Administration and The New Nationalism
• RAI announces establishment of Edward Orsborn Professorship of US Politics and Political History
• Mara Keire discusses populism with Melvyn Bragg on 'In Our Time'
• Fourth of July
• RAI welcomes Notre Dame's 'Global Dome' initiative
• RAI's Dr Patrick Andelic appointed Lecturer in American History at Northumbria University
• Michèle Mendelssohn and Dame Hermione Lee discuss Henry James on Radio 4
• RAI's Dr Kathryn Olivarius appointed Assistant Professor in Nineteenth-Century U.S. History at Stanford University
• Barack Obama's A Promised Land
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• Masters of the Seas: Naval Power and the First World War
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• "Deeds Not Words": American Social Justice Movements and World War One — podcast now online
• ‘The Nation’s Top Dog’: The Enduring Fascination of Animals in the White House
• America and Race Bibliography
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• American History Graduate Seminar programme now available
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• Book launch and conversation with Yahia Lababidi
• Book Presentation - Oceans Ventured: Winning the Cold War at Sea
• Carwardine Prize
• Compromise, Moderatism, Extremism, and Fanaticism: Disagreement in American Politics and Society, 1783-1861
• Face-to-face with Trump: Dependent Mexico and the hegemon
• 'Healing Our Divided Society': The Kerner Commission at 50
• Incoming RAI Graduate Scholars, 2020-21
• 'Masters of the Seas: Naval Power and the First World War' by Sir Hew Strachan: recording now available
• Merve Emre and Nicholas Gaskill appointed as Associate Professors of American Literature
• Reading for (and against) empathy
• Open Friday at the RAI: 'In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America'
• The 'Crisis' of the Middle Class Episode
• A History of America in 100 Maps
• Politics after God
• Book launch - Primordial Modernism: Animals, Ideas, Transition (1927–38)
• Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria: Culture, Politics, Place
• 'Race and the Problem of the Public in Postwar America' - recording now available
• RAI Annual Report 2016-17 now available
• Joe Sacco's Paying the Land (2020)
• RAI seeks applications for Harmsworth Graduate Scholarship on World War One
• RAI|Live with Antony Penrose: 'Lee Miller: Witnessing Women at War'
• RAI|Live with Ben Arogundade: Obama: 101 Best Covers
• RAI|Live: Deborah Treisman on Walter Hopps
• 'Reflections on the Obamas in office' blog now online
• Report on RAI internship
• Rhetorics of Reading: American Contexts and Methods in Literary Studies
• Sage Goodwin receives Carwardine Prize for U.S. History M.St. students
• Health and Disease History of the Caribbean, 1491-1850: Two Syndemics
• The Atlantic in the Interior
• Free Reading
• The Great Debate: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley and the Civil Rights Revolution
• The long-term implications of President Nixon’s healthcare programme
• The Philip & Rosamund Davies US Elections Campaigns Archive
• 'The Sovereignty of Generations': Thomas Jefferson, Paternalism and Cultural Transmission in Early America
• The United States and World War One — recordings now available
• What students of politics need to understand about Congress
• Why Remember? War and Memory Today
• Has American democracy outstripped its institutional foundations? Principles without traction in 21st century governance
• The American Dilemma Episode
• Katy Long
• Fellows-in-Residence
• Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters
• Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History
• "Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments" by Saidiya Hartman
• Harmsworth Lecture in American History
• Louis Lecture in Anglo-American Relations
• Winant Lecture in American Government
• Mission Statement
• The What's Wrong With America Episode
• The Royal America Episode
• The Boycott Episode
• The Swedish Nightingale Episode
• The From Slavery to Snowdonia Episode
• The Confederates Who Wanted to Be Garibaldi Episode
• Annual Reports
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• The Last Best Hope Shorts: Simone de Beauvoir
• The Harmonious Episode
• The "Did the South Win the Civil War After All" Episode
• The Last Best Hope Episode
• The new New Deal Episode
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• The Federalism Episode
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• Experiment
• Katherine Paugh
• Uta Balbier
• Mark Power Smith
• Distinguished Fellows
• Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History
• John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Government
• American Exceptionalism? Race, Crime and Democracy in the United States
• Announcement of New Graduate Scholars
• American History Research Seminar programme now available
• American Literature Research Seminar programme now available
• U.S. Midterm Elections 2018: Interpreting the Results
• The RAI Goes to the Movies: I am Not Your Negro (2016)
• Alexander P. Butterfield: The Making of 'The Last of the President's Men'
• Making Oscar Wilde
• Book Launch - The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
• The Counter-Narrative, the Racial Imaginary and Visual Art
• Book Launch – Edith Wharton and Genre: Beyond Fiction
• The RAI goes to the Movies: 'Sergeant York' (1941)
• "The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton (1905)
• The US Presidential Election: Who Will Win
• Book Launch - Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present
• Challenges of Washington
• Geoff Shepard: The Criminalization of American Politics, from Nixon to Now
• New Yorker Fiction through the Decades
• Social Movements and the American State
• The RAI goes to the Movies: 'The Big Parade' (1925)
• Animals in the archive: Some ways to access Indigenous cultural texts
• The Trump Presidency and the structure of modern American politics
• Incredible: lying, credibility, and the truth in historical research
• GLGW Conference 2019: 'A World Transformed: The First World War and its Legacy'
• The U.S. Midterm Elections: Implications for Immigration Law and Policy
• A 'brown man's country'? Langston Hughes in Mexico
• Race and the Problem of the Public in Postwar America
• The RAI Goes to the Movies: All the President's Men (1976)
• The Trump Administration and The New Nationalism
• The RAI Goes to the Movies: Moonlight (2016)
• Things Come Together: Science and the American West
• Bolivar, USA: the United States and Latin American independence
• The Future of the Republican Party
• The Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps: Writing America's First World War
• Consent in Early America, 1600-1900
• Historical Indian treaties in American and Canadian constitutional contexts
• U.S. Elections 2016: Interpreting the Results
• The 2020 US Election: Who’s Winning?
• The Trump Administration and the Federal Reserve under Chairman Powell: The path forward for the U.S. economy
• Learning Norwegian
• The Future of the Democratic Party
• Book Launch: Nadia Hilliard and Tom Cutterham
• RAI Lecture at the Chalke Valley History Festival: "Understanding American Government"
• The RAI Goes to the Movies: Dr. Strangelove (1964)
• The Trump Presidency: How is he using the legislative 'tools'?
• War, Race, and Anti-Imperialism in Merze Tate’s International Thought
• U.S. Presidential Inauguration
• Open House: U.S. Elections 2016
• Gold Rush Imperialism: Gold Mining and Global History in the Age of Imperialism, c.1848-1914
• Global Populism: 50 Years After
• The Liberating Prospects of British Guiana
• Visual Art in Narrative Fiction: An Event with Author Amy Sackville
• Fellows' Forum: Reassessing Jesse Helms, Reassessing the New Southern Conservatism and Race
• Race and the 2020 Election
• Life and thought of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
• Congress to Campus 2016
• Poverty in America: The Past, Present, and Future
• Congress to Campus 2021
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan's America
• RAI Interdisciplinary Summer School 2016: Action Figures
• City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement
• Looking Back, Looking Forward: Reflections on the Obamas in Office
• The Taming of the Shrill: Gender, Language and Power in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
• Is there a conservative approach to international relations? U.S. foreign policy from Reagan to Trump
• The 2020 US Election: What Happened?
• RAI–Miller Center joint workshop: The Future of America in the World
• “Deeds Not Words”: American Social Justice Movements and World War One
• AHGS: Social Media Panel
• Book launch - The Trials of Thomas Morton
• Cultures and Commemorations of War: American Wars, American Memory
• Annette Gordon-Reed: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
• The RAI Goes to the Movies: The Watermelon Woman (1996)
• Book Launch: Tessa Roynon's The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction
• Book talk - Unfree Markets: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina
• Ronan Ludot-Vlasak: Essays on Melville and Classical Antiquity
• OxWIP presents: An Evening with Alyssa Mastromonaco
• Book launch - The One-Party Presidential Contest: Adams, Jackson, and 1824's Five-Horse Race
• Wealth and Economic Growth in the Early American Republic, 1775–1815
• The Missouri Crisis of Constitutional Authority
• Fellows' Forum: "Walk with Us": Women's Prison Zines as Collective Autobiography
• Racialisation and the Media: From Television to Twitter
• The RAI Goes to the Movies: Sorry to Bother You (2018) and Blindspotting (2018)
• Forced Reproduction in the Antebellum South, 1808-1865
• The American Civil Rights State
• Fellows' Forum: Praise the Native Gardener, but Tax His Hunter Counterpart: The Case of the 1921 Alaska Fur Tax
• The RAI Goes to the Movies: Daughters of the Dust (1991)
• Fellows' Forum: Primitive / Incipient: Projections of Blackness in the US Colony in Fin-de-siècle Paris
• The RAI Goes to the Movies: Get Out (2017)
• The 2020 Election Results: What They Mean for the UK and the World
• Book Launch - Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War (2020)
• The RAI Goes to the Movies: Selma (2014)
• New Yorker short fiction reading group
• Plymouth 400th Anniversary Roundtable
• The RAI Goes to the Movies: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
• The IR thought of Claudia Jones
• Book launch - The City-State of Boston
• Dr Merze Tate on IR
• Book launch - US Hegemony and the Americas: Power and Economic Statecraft in International Relations
• The Origins of the American Economy
• Lunar: We Look to the Moon
• Writing Black Women’s Lives: Present and Past
• Drawing Wars: Art and Cultural Memory
• Book launch - Shattered Objects: Djuna Barnes's Modernism
• Book launch - The Ordinary Presidency of Donald J. Trump
• Chromographia: American Literature and the Modernization of Color
• ‘“Du yu espik English?” Latino culture and identity in the United States’
• America's Midterm Elections and the Implications for the Trump Presidency
• Book Presentation - "Meet You in Atlantic City: Travels in Springsteen’s New Jersey"
• Clive Sinclair is not Philip Roth
• Drone Warfare: Trends and Emerging Issues
• Hew Strachan: The Entry of the US to the First World War: Centenary Reflections
• Midcentury modernisms: reinventing American nationality law in the 20th century
• Lest We Forget? Reconsidering First World War Memory
• The International Ralph Ellison Symposium 2017
• Representations of War Trauma: Workshop
• Society for the History of Women in the Americas Annual Conference
• ‘Voices of Dissent’: Social Movements and Political Protest in Post-war America
• That Lady on the Hill: Examining American Liberalism at a Crossroads in the 1970s
• Special Relationships: Poetry Across the Atlantic Since 2000
• 100 Down, 265 To Go: First Milestone on President Trump’s First Year
• America and the Treaty of Versailles
• The essay-as-criticism
• The Birth of Tragedy
• The RAI goes to the Movies: 'Wings' (1927)
• ‘O Say Can You See?’ Art, Propaganda and the First World War
• A Post-Mortem of the 2016 U.S. Election
• Joining the Revolution: Lyndon Johnson, the Modern Presidency and the Civil Rights Movement
• The RAI goes to the Movies: 'Shoulder Arms' (1918)
• RAI|Live: Eileen Myles
• American Revolutions: Empires and Republics in North America, 1750-1804
• Book Launch: Why Academic Freedom Matters
• RAI|Live with Mark Greif, editor of n+1 magazine
• Americans Overseas: The United States in the World since 1865
• Presidential Elections Round-table: The Mobilization of Voters Overseas
• RAI|Live with Andrea Wulf - The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
• Increasing the number and influence of women in elected and appointed office in the United States and around the world
• The Novel Reading Disease and the Democratisation of American Nationalism
• What political scientists need to understand about Congress
• Populism and Memories in a Sea of Storms: Hurricanes and the Creation of Welfare States in the Greater Caribbean
• What Political Scientists Need to Understand about Congress
• Virtual Plenary Session: The Changing Character of the American Right
• The 2016 Ambassador John J. Louis Jr. Lecture in Anglo-American Relations
• Harmsworth Conference on Transimperial US History
• Merchants of Death? The Nye Commission, the Business of War, and the Politics of Memory
• The 2020 Election: A Postgraduate and ECR Perspective
• Irregular or Insurgent? Constructing a New Face of Battle for America's Civil War
• Arts Patronage in Modern America: An International Conference
• Money, Politics, and the Establishment of the U.S. Mint, 1784-1828
• The Biden Administration: Priorities and Challenges
• Contextualizing Wampanoag Women's Petitions in the Era of Removal, 1800–1835
• A Conversation with Michelle Daniel Jones
• A Conversation with Romarilyn Ralston
• RAI Welcome Reception
• "The Common Cause": Contesting Early American Citizenship in the Longchamps Affair 1784-1786
• Writing Emotionally Difficult Histories
• The Unexceptional Roots of American Exceptionalism: America in the Age of Revolution
• How to Draft a Constitution: Methods of Proceeding at State Conventions, 1818-1821
• Unmentionable Ugliness: Police Brutality, Sexual Violence and the Civil Rights Movement
• Bad Queers: How Social Movements Transformed the Governance of Gay Sex and Gender Nonconformity
• Henry Carey, the Philadelphia Working Class, and the Origins of Free Labour (1835-1840)
• Remembering Laura Marcus
• Sarah Schulman in conversation with Amia Srinivasan
• Michèle Mendelssohn
• Can We Talk About Race? A Conversation between Beverly Daniel Tatum and Baroness Valerie Amos
• The Irish America Episode
• Women’s Worlds: New Histories of the United States and the World (Part 1)
• The Homecoming Episode
• The 9/11 Episode
• Women’s Worlds: New Histories of the United States and the World (Part 2)
• The American Antimonopoly Tradition in Global Perspective
• The Robert E. Lee Episode
• Benjamin Gladstone
• Brody McDonald
• Caine Lewin-Turner
• Camila Pelsinger
• Emma Felin
• Jacob Brandler
• Jessica Leeper
• Rebecca Bradburn
• Sarena Martinez
• Stephen Symchych
• Theodore Fawcett
• Introducing this Year's RAI Fellows-in-Residence
• The Government is the Solution Episode
• The State's Rights Episode
• RAI Annual Report for 2020–21 now available
• The Politics of American Islamophobia
• The Last Emperor of Mexico: Panel discussion about Mexico and the United States in the 1860s
• Andrie Morris
• The Roots of American Citizenship
• The Sultan of New York: Armenian-American Diplomacy in the Era of the Eastern Question
• United 'Affrican Brethren:' Black Nationalism and Racial Solidarity in Early Republican New England
• "She took the whip frum him an' give him a snake beatin':" Enslaved Women, Counter-Whippings, and Revenge in the Antebellum South
• Notes on Craft: Dr Xine Yao and Ama Josephine B. Johnstone in Conversation
• The 1776 Episode
• The Billy Graham Episode
• RAI Women's Lunch
• Donald Ratcliffe
• Fellows' Forum: The Battle for Global Supremacy: The Ports of London and New York in the Early Twentieth Century
• The Nixon's The One Episode
• The American Civil War as a Conservative Revolution
• Mori Reithmayr
• The Battle Hymn of the Republic Episode
• The History and Politics of American Wine
• The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification
• RAI Women's Lunch
• Postgraduate Member Symposium
• Postgraduate Membership
• Ruth Percy
• David Sheen
• Ashley Wright
• Remembering Sir John Elliott
• Doing History from the Inside: a workshop with Allida Black
• RAI Women’s Lunch
• RAI Women's Lunch
• Stuck in Year Zero: Periodization and the Maritimization of Commemorations in Atlantic Perspective
• Richard Nixon's Liberal Legacy
• Archives of Desire: Transformative Fandom and Queer Memory – 1. Limits
• Archives of Desire: Transformative Fandom and Queer Memory – 2. Histories
• Archives of Desire: Transformative Fandom and Queer Memory – 3. Bodies
• Archives of Desire: Transformative Fandom and Queer Memory – 4. Affects
• Altar Call in Europe: Billy Graham, Mass Evangelism, and the Cold-War West
• The State of Play: The Biden Administration at Midterm
• Evoking the Horse: Indigenous Artists of the North American Plains
• "These Surely are not the People who ought to have absolute authority over Us:" The Gordon Riots as Reaffirmation of the Patriot Cause
• "To Have America a Free Port:" Free Ports and United States Independence, 1776-1784
• The American Civil War: The Enslavers' State Endures
• Apparently Personal Poetry: A Symposium on Elizabeth Bishop and Biography
• Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
• Grace Mallon appointed Kinder JRF in Atlantic History
• An Evening with Joy Harjo, 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States
• Conservatism in the Atlantic World
• Political Behaviour and Public Opinion Workshop in American and Comparative Politics
• Introducing the RAI's Fellows-in-Residence for Trinity Term 2022
• Adam Smith's inaugural lecture now available online
• The Dust Bowl Episode
• Charlotte Hand
• The Free World Episode
• The Book of Mormon Episode
• The Cotton Famine Episode
• The Memorialising Covid Episode
• The Propaganda Episode
• The Uncle Tom Episode
• Abdul Nasser Rad
• Emily Brady
• Max Nathanson
• Nicholas Duddy
• CANCELLED - Reparations Unbound: Dismantling Systemic Racial Injustice in the 21st Century
• The Forgotten Constitutional Revolution: Amending American Democracy in the Early Twentieth Century
• Fellows' Forum - An American Powder Keg: Gun Culture and its Political Ammunition
• RAI Welcome Reception
• RAI Women’s Lunch
• Can a Skeptic be a Lady? Domesticity and Irreligiosity in Antebellum American Literature
• Why Can't Slaveholders Imagine the Future?
• Book Launch - Young America: The Transformation of Nationalism before the Civil War
• The Midterm Elections: What Happened, and What Next?
• Oxonian Review Seminar: A Conversation with Rachel Aviv
• Oxonian Review Seminar: A Conversation with Leo Robson
• Oxonian Review Seminar: A Conversation with Christine Smallwood
• Oxonian Review Seminar: A Conversation with Maggie Doherty
• Heather Colley
• Christopher Lowe
• Grady Owens
• Zoe Rucker
• Postgraduate Members' Welcome Event
• Fellows' Forum - How to Tackle a Fifty-Year-Old Myth? Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., A Coup, and American Entry into the Vietnam War
• RAI Annual Report for 2021–22 now available
• The Polarisation Episode
• Samuel Burry
• The Gettysburg Episode
• Emily Brady appointed Broadbent JRF in American History
• Baruch Gilinsky
• 'The Midterm Elections: What Happened, and What Next?' now available online
• The Black Ships Episode
• Nicole King
• The Second Amendment Episode
• The House Divided Episode
• Harmsworth Lecture in American History 2022 - recording now available
• Colonial Time-Consciousness and the American Revolution
• 'To Remedy the Evils Under Which We Labor': Internal Improvement as Religious Statecraft in the Antebellum South
• Engineering Peace: Technology and the End of Politics in the American Nineteenth Century
• Book talk - America’s Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life (Chicago, 2022)
• Hannah Greiving (on maternity leave until November 2025)
• Oxonian Review Seminar: A Conversation with Merve Emre and Tobi Haslett
• Oxonian Review Seminar: A Conversation with Yi-Ling Liu
• Black Matrilineage, Photography and Representation
• RAI Women’s Lunch
• RAI Women’s Lunch
• A Conversation with Gavin Cologne-Brookes
• Oxonian Review Seminar: A Conversation with Deborah Friedell, contributing editor at the London Review of Books
• FDR: Transforming the Presidency and Renewing America
• RAI Book Sale
• Portraiture and Academic Work
• Julia Lorenz
• Rachel O'Nunain
• Michael Wakin
• Min Zhao
• Postcards to the Archive: Creative Writing Workshop
• Postcards from the Archive
• The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge
• Fellows' Forum - Marginal Education: Revenue Strategies of Universities in an Age of Neoliberal Education Policy
• Industrious or Obstreperous: Impoverished White Huckster Women in the Antebellum City
• Book talk - West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire
• Get Out: Streetcars and the Gendered Politics of Segregation in 1850s New York
• Reinventing the Revolution: The State of Franklin, Secessionism, and the New Constitution
• At the Junction: The Local, Regional, and National in US History
• Proofs of the Illusion: A Moonglow Scrapbook
• RAI Women’s Lunch
• RAI Women’s Lunch
• Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé
• What will happen in US politics in 2024?
• Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle
• Winant Symposium: Reparations and the Political Imagination
• Oxonian Review Seminar: A Conversation with Tom Crewe
• Harmsworth Chair Centennial Symposium: 100 Years of the Study of the United States from Oxford
• Isabelle Stuart
• Oxonian Review Seminar: A Conversation with Kevin Lozano
• RAI Fellow Nicholas Cole delivers Fulton Lecture at the University of Chicago
• The Lessons of LBJ Episode
• A new season of the RAI's The Last Best Hope? podcast
• Was there a Culture War in Nineteenth-Century America?
• America's role in Ukraine: a return to the last, best hope?
• Crime, Royal Prerogative, and the Pardon Power of the American President
• A City on a Hill: The exceptional history of a powerful metaphor
• Harriet Smith Hughes
• Bethan Wallace
• Kye Allen
• Luke Young
• The Geordie South: How Northumbrians shaped Appalachia
• RAI celebrates Harmsworth Chair centennial
• Call for Papers: American History Research Seminar
• Winant Visiting Professors of American Government appointed for 2024–27
• Princess Margaret Memorial Garden open to public on 21 August
• RAI Welcome Reception
• Book Launch - War on the Ballot: How the Election Cycle Shapes Presidential Decision-Making in War
• Inside American Politics: A Dialogue with Top American Politics and Media Experts
• Fellows' Forum - A Shadow Over the World: Roosevelt, the Fascist Threat, and America's Road to World War II
• White Supremacy in American Politics: An Origins Story
• RAI Women’s Lunch
• RAI Women’s Lunch
• Bonds, Attachments and Networks: Photographies of Connection
• From the Power Elite to the Paranoid Style: How the Assassination of President Kennedy Changed America
• Oxford Mosaic Accessibility Statement
• The RAI welcomes 2023–24 Visiting Professors
• The Last Best Hope podcast returns for its tenth series
• Is there a Paranoid Style in American Politics?
• What is a 'Colorblind Constitution'?
• Andrew Dilts
• Maya Hollander
• Amisha Kambath
• Oisin Meenan
• Elena Morgana
• Miranda Richman
• Madeleine Rose
• Rachel Reville
• Ruth Shoo
• Klarke Stricklen
• Olivia Sutherland
• Harry Thomas
• Yixin Tian
• Daniel Whittle
• Benedict Willis
• Ming Kit Wong
• Oxford-RAI Graduate Scholarship at University College
• The Kennedy Assassination and Conspiracy Culture
• Conrad Steel
• Book launch - In Her Hands: Women’s Fight Against AIDS in the United States
• Book Discussion - Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America
• Harmsworth Lecture in American History 2023 - recording now available
• The Destruction of the Tea, 250 Years On
• Congratulations to Neil Suchak on passing his DPhil viva
• Shifting Allegiances: The Election of Latino Republicans to Congress and State Legislatures
• CANCELLED - Presidential Transitions: lessons for 2025
• RAI Women’s Lunch
• RAI Women’s Lunch
• American Fascism
• How are Latino voters changing America?
• Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World
• Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commission on the Civil War Battlefront
• Where next for the Anglo-American 'Special Relationship'?
• Mobile Embassies, Expeditionary Ambassadors: Public Diplomacy, Activism, and The Politics of the "World Tour" across Empires
• Winant Lecture in American Government 2024 - recording now available
• How have presidential primaries shaped modern US politics?
• Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar
• Lights Up - REGISTRATION NOW FULL
• Where next for the Anglo-American 'Special Relationship'?
• Haydn Belfield
• Sophie Berman
• Shawn Brace
• Jacob Greenspon
• Morgan DaCosta
• Brittany Gittus
• Maurice Hirt
• Sara Lopes Borga
• Sylvia McKelvie
• Samuel Murison
• Miyo Peck-Suzuki
• Joseph Ward
• The Strange Death and Curious Rebirth of American Cricket
• Rothermere American Institute: Use of cookies on this website
• The Rise and Fall of Confederate Monuments: Memory and the American Civil War
• Time to Get Ready: Resistance Through My Lens
• Time to Get Ready: Opening Reception
• RAI Women’s Lunch
• RAI Women’s Lunch
• Disanimality: When Disability, Illness, and Animality Meet
• Immigration Politics in an Age of Uncertainty
• Adam Smith awarded Research Project Grant by the Leverhulme Trust
• Harmsworth Visiting Professors of American History appointed for 2024–27
• Forthcoming Photography Exhibition: 'Time to Get Ready: Maria Varela and the Civil Rights Movement'
• Morning again in America: The 1984 Election forty years on
• Time to Get Ready: Maria Varela and the Civil Rights Movement - Exhibition Open
• Congratulations to Gwion Jones and Josh Lappen on passing their DPhil vivas
• The Black Founders, America and the Claim of Equality
• A.J. Hudson
• Maya Sternthal
• Isabella Turilli
• Presidents and the Press
• Rigged! Anxiety about Election Integrity in America
• Society for the History of Women in the Americas - Annual Conference
• Call for Papers: American History Research Seminar
• Andrea McDowell
• RAI Welcome Reception
• Princess Margaret Memorial Garden open to public on 21 August
• The Roots of American Authoritarianism
• Beth Wilson
• Gwion Wyn Jones
• Emily West
• Conservatisms in an Age of Revolutions: The United States in an Atlantic World
• Kim Welch
• Lisa McGirr
• Sarah Knott
• Imperial Odyssey: The USS Ticonderoga and the Search for U.S. Empire
• "Waste places": Remaking the Plantation at Booker T. Washington's Tuskeegee Institute
• Frances Thompson: Race, Gender Non-Conformity, and Scandal in the White Conservative Press During Reconstruction
• Roll Away The Stone: African American Gospel Music 1930-1965
• John Reed, Edgar Snow, Herbert Matthews, and the Question of Journalistic Truth
• Testimonies of Emotion: Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South
• Morale: A Revolutionary Idea?
• Anishinaabe Albion: Indigenous Diplomacy, Performance, and Resistance in the British Isles
• "Harlem Interdit": Paris-Match and European Uses of Harlem, c.1964-c.1975
• Glow Boys: Temporary Workers and the Making of Atomic Capitalism
• Rediscovering James W.C. Pennington, Black Reformed Minister and Activist
• The Cost of Sympathy: Perceptions of Suffering in the New York City Draft Riots
• RAI Women’s Lunch
• RAI Women’s Lunch
• The Longest Boundary: How the US-Canadian Border’s Line Came to be Where It Is, 1763–1910
• Reading Rorty: Introduction
• Reading Rorty: Pragmatism and Truth I
• Reading Rorty: Pragmatism and Truth II
• Reading Rorty: A Liberal Utopia I
• Reading Rorty: A Liberal Utopia II
• Reading Rorty: A Liberal Utopia III
• Reading Rorty: Criticism and Conclusion
• The Present and Future of US Politics: Foreign Policy
• Erin Pauwels
• The Present and Future of US Politics: Whose Vote Counts?
• The Present and Future of US Politics: Political Violence
• The Present and Future of US Politics: Shifting Voter Allegiances
• The Present and Future of US Politics: What next for the Democratic Party?
• The Present and Future of US Politics: Election Debrief
• Robert Saldin
• Louisa Hotson
• CANCELLED-The Present and Future of US Politics: Conservatism
• The Present and Future of US Politics: The Urban-Suburban Divide
• Kimberley Johnson
• The US Election: What Just Happened?
• Harmsworth Lecture Response
• RAI Annual Report for 2023–24 now available
• Katherine Fapp
• Erin Shearer
• Aisha Djelid
• Print Capitalism Between the Book and the Periodical
• Deadpan in/as Black Aesthetics
• What was New Sincerity?
• Tracing the Ecological in Early American Environmental Thought & Model Thinking in Colonial New England
• Ethan Plaue
• Congratulations to Minying Huang and Elizabeth Rees on passing their DPhil vivas
• Inside American Politics 2024 Conference
• Grace Mallon
• Dark Money: Can billionaires buy elections in America?
• Sheila Byers
• The Last Best Hope Podcast: New Series Up Now!
• The Age of Polarization Election Special Part 1: 1992
• Eugene V. Debs and America as the last, best hope for socialism?
• The Age of Polarization Election Special Part 2: 2000
• Call for Papers: Conservatism in an Age of Atlantic Revolutions, 1830 – 1880
• The Age of Polarization Election Special Part 3: 2008
• God and Trump: Evangelicals and Politics in today's America
• The Age of Polarization Election Special Part 4: 2016
• Alain Locke Seminar
• Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle
• Thoroughbred Nation: Making America at the Racetrack, 1793-1900
• Wake Up Women: American Women, Activism, and Engagement at Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation
• Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union
• The Pompe and Pride of Man: Pride and Humility in Early New England
• Joshua Lappen
• Election Special: What Just Happened?
• Vladimiro Bocchino
• Jessica Chiriboga
• Aissa Dearing-Benton
• Spencer Drake
• Paul Fine
• Carlos Guadarrama Gandara
• Graham Higgins
• Tara Jittalan
• Eszter D Kovacs
• Shereece Linton-Ramsay
• Madison Lyonhart
• Lily Middleton-Mansell
• Scott Newman
• Ben Philipps
• Lucie Richter-Mahr
• William Smith
• Erick Moreno Superlano
• Amy van der Merwe
• Smriti Verma
• Sharon Xiaohan Zhang
• RAI Women's Lunch
• RAI Women's Lunch
• Christopher McKenna
• Martha Swift
• Paul Martin
• Congratulations to Katie Fapp and Sarena Martinez on passing their DPhil vivas
• Alain Locke Seminar Series
• African Americans and the Photographic Seat of Honor
• The End of Black Politics
• Josh Alexander
• American Fictions of Vulnerability
• A World of Opodeldoc: Leigh Hunt, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Early Nineteenth-Century Periodical
• Toni Morrison’s Black Anthropocenes
• Deliberate Strangers: Transatlantic Homecomings in Henry James, James Baldwin and Stuart Hall
• CANCELLED - An Exceptional Identity: The Role of US History Education in (Re)Producing American Exceptionalism
• Roundtable: 'Liberalism, Conservatism, and Reception History'
• Fellows’ Forum - Thinking Historically about Civic Education: Teaching and Learning the Declaration of Independence in the Late-Nineteenth-Century United States
• Fellows’ Forum - An American Aristocracy: Race, Wealth, and the Fading Fortunes of Eulalie Mandeville and Bernard Soulié
• Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control
• Tom Arnold-Forster
• Empire of the New Deal: The Roosevelt Program Unchecked
• Justine Shepperson
• 2024 Carwardine Prize Announced
• I’ve Got a Story to Tell: Mary Lou Williams and the Re-Imagining of Jazz’s History
• Roundtable: Black Urban Politics and History
• Benoit Mes
• Defending Dignity: Black Women, Family, and Crafting Testimonies in Colonial Mexico
• Alina Utrata
• Winant Lecture in American Government 2025 - recording now available
• Consent, Survival, and the Lives of Enslaved and Free Black Women
• Book launch - Gettysburg
• American History Research Seminars 2023/24
• Fellows’ Forum - Prisoners of Their Premises: How Unexamined Assumptions Lead to War and Other Policy Debacles
• Ronnie Pope
• Edward Knudsen
• Songruowen Ma
• Roundtable: Black Urban Politics and History - recording now available
• American History Research Seminars 2022/23
• American History Research Seminars 2021/22
• American History Research Seminars 2020/21
• Natasha Trethewey: Why I Write
• Anouska Bedford
• Biswajyoti Ghosh
• Harmsworth Symposium: The Origins of Trumpism and Paths to an Alternative Future
• Henry Charles Lea, the Inquisition, and the Origins of Scientific History in the United States
• American Literature Research Seminars 2023/24
• American Literature Research Seminars 2022/23
• American Literature Research Seminars 2020/21 & 2021/22
• The Trump Administration and the Separation of Powers
• Expressions of Interest invited for next three Harmsworth Professorships in American History
• Beyond Trump’s First 100 Days: What Comes Next Economically and Geopolitically?
• Fellows’ Forum - Enslaved Women's Violence and a Feminist History of Harm: A New Direction in Slavery Studies?
• The Future of Literary Knowledge in the Authoritarian West
• The Novel And/As/Of Information
• Scholarship, Activism, and the Autonomy of Social Spheres
• The National Poetry Crisis
• Postgraduate Panel
• Cody Nager
• Consent, Survival, and the Lives of Enslaved and Free Black Women - recording now available
• Winant-Mellon Symposium: Taking Stock of the Administrative State
• Winant-Mellon Symposium - How to Capture the Administrative State: Philanthropy, Law, and the Future of Civil Rights
• Remembering Esmond Harmsworth
• Anarchitecture After Everything
• Joshua Lappen awarded Allan Nevins Prize
• Bruce Schulman named 2025 Guggenheim Fellow
• Lloyd Pratt awarded Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust
• Desmond King elected to National Academy of Sciences
• Giuseppe Paparella
• Alexander Beck
• Amytess Girgis
• Elspeth Askew
• Philippa Monk
• Aisha Djelid shortlisted for a Royal Historical Society Early Career Article Prize