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• RAI's Dr Kathryn Olivarius appointed Assistant Professor in Nineteenth-Century U.S. History at Stanford University
• Michèle Mendelssohn and Dame Hermione Lee discuss Henry James on Radio 4
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• RAI seeks applicants for Edward Orsborn Professorship of US Politics and Political History
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• RAI announces establishment of Edward Orsborn Professorship of US Politics and Political History
• The United States and World War One — recordings now available
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• Mandy Izadi appointed Broadbent Junior Research Fellow in American History
• The RAI goes to the Movies: 'Wings' (1927)
• Merchants of Death? The Nye Commission, the Business of War, and the Politics of Memory
• What Political Scientists Need to Understand about Congress
• David Sehat and Daniel Walker Howe in conversation
• ‘O Say Can You See?’ Art, Propaganda and the First World War
• 'The Sovereignty of Generations': Thomas Jefferson, Paternalism and Cultural Transmission in Early America
• The RAI goes to the Movies: 'The Big Parade' (1925)
• Increasing the number and influence of women in elected and appointed office in the United States and around the world
• Joining the Revolution: Lyndon Johnson, the Modern Presidency and the Civil Rights Movement
• A Post-Mortem of the 2016 U.S. Election
• The Trump Presidency: How is he using the legislative 'tools'?
• The RAI goes to the Movies: 'Shoulder Arms' (1918)
• “Deeds Not Words”: American Social Justice Movements and World War One
• RAI|Live: Eileen Myles
• Geoff Shepard: The Criminalization of American Politics, from Nixon to Now
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• RAI welcomes International Ralph Ellison Symposium
• The Taming of the Shrill: Gender, Language and Power in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
• The 2016-17 Harmsworth Lecture in American History: Professor Alan Taylor
• Katherine Paugh
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• The 2017 Harmsworth Lecture in American History: Elliott West
• RAI|Live: Deborah Treisman on Walter Hopps
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• Why Remember? War and Memory Today
• The Drue Heinz Professorship of American Literature: Inaugural Lecture
• RAI seeks applications for Harmsworth Graduate Scholarship on World War One
• Sage Goodwin receives Carwardine Prize for U.S. History M.St. students
• Representations of War Trauma: Workshop
• Mara Keire's research features in latest Atlas Obscura travel and architecture magazine
• Winant Lecture recording now available
• Sunday opening at the Vere Harmsworth Library
• "Deeds Not Words": American Social Justice Movements and World War One — podcast now online
• RAI, St Edmund Hall and Christ Church announce creation of the Broadbent Junior Research Fellowship in American History
• New publications by RAI fellows
• America's Overseas Voters
• America's Overseas Voters: How they could decide the US Presidency in 2016
• America's Overseas Voters: 2016's Forgotten Constituency?
• Could US overseas voters in UK, France, Canada and Israel swing key US states?
• America's Overseas Voters: How they could decide the US Presidency in 2016
• American expats cast their votes at the RAI on 'Super Tuesday'
• RAI Annual Report 2016-17 now available
• RAI's Jane Dinwoodie elected to Cambridge junior research fellowship
• Alice Kelly wins public engagement competition with WW1 podcast
• Former Congressmen Vic Fazio (D) and Randy Neugebauer (R) announced as Congress to Campus visitors
• Special American Politics Week begins Hilary Term at RAI
• Hilary termcard published
• RAI's Kathryn Olivarius awarded Past and Present Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research
• 'Reflections on the Obamas in office' blog now online
• RAI features in BBC4 documentary on Virago Press, Monday 31 October
• America and Ireland's Easter Rising: video now online
• RAI Fellow Mary King discusses Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come" on BBC Radio 4 'Soul Music'
• RAI Fellow Tessa Roynon receives Toni Morrison Prize
• 'Masters of the Seas: Naval Power and the First World War' by Sir Hew Strachan: recording now available
• Princess Margaret Memorial Garden opens to public, 22nd August
• Richard Carwardine, Jay Sexton, and Ann Schofield elected Distinguished Fellows of the RAI
• Megan Armknecht receives inaugural Carwardine Prize for U.S. History M.St. students
• RAI student Jane Dinwoodie awarded dissertation fellowship at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies
• Sir Hew Strachan to deliver inaugural RAI Lecture at Chalke Valley History Festival
• Lloyd Pratt appointed Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature
• U.S. Ambassador delivers second Ambassador John J. Louis Jr. Lecture in Anglo-American Relations
• U.S. Ambassador's RAI Louis Lecture on Anglo-American relations: video now online
• RAI and Corpus Christi College seek applications for a stipendiary Junior Research Fellow on the United States and World War One
• Genius!: Lydia Davis delivers the 2016 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters
• 'The Not So Odd Couple: Richard Nixon and Daniel Patrick Moynihan': video now online
• RAI's Dr Tom Cutterham appointed Lecturer in US History at Birmingham
• Applications now open for 2016 Travel Awards
• Sally Bayley's 'The Private Life of the Diary' acclaimed by reviewers
• Trinity termcard published
• RAI Director of Development receives Hines Prize
• Desmond King and Lawrence Jacobs publish 'Fed Power: How Finance Wins'
• RAI student wins prestigious Rockefeller research grant
• RAI invites applications for graduate scholarships in American History and Politics
• Gloria Steinem in Oxford
• How the Republican Party can stop Donald Trump: RAI's Tom Packer tells BBC Radio
• American Voices International: RAI hosts launch of new PAC
• RAI's Ursula Hackett and Nigel Bowles discuss Donald Trump in The Independent
• RAI|Live: Andrea Wulf at the RAI
• RAI invites applications for Esmond Harmsworth Scholarships in American Literature
• Jay Sexton discusses President James Monroe with The Washington Post
• RAI Fellow Tom Packer discusses Iowa caucus on BBC Radio's 'Sunday Supplement'
• RAI announces creation of Carwardine Prize
• Open House: U.S. Elections 2016
• U.S. Elections 2016: Interpreting the Results
• Looking Back, Looking Forward: Reflections on the Obamas in Office
• Book Launch: Why Academic Freedom Matters
• Book Launch: The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
• RAI|Live with Mark Greif, editor of n+1 magazine
• "Masters of the Seas: Naval Power and the First World War": inaugural RAI Lecture at the Chalke Valley History Festival
• RAI Interdisciplinary Summer School 2016: Action Figures
• Harmsworth Conference on Transimperial US History
• The 2016 Ambassador John J. Louis Jr. Lecture in Anglo-American Relations
• The 2016 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters
• The 2016 Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan's America
• Americans Overseas: The United States in the World since 1865
• Alexander P. Butterfield: The Making of 'The Last of the President's Men'
• Congress to Campus
• Presidential Elections Round-table: The Mobilization of Voters Overseas
• Tom Cutterham and David Sehat in conversation
• RAI|Live with Antony Penrose: 'Lee Miller: Witnessing Women at War'
• Animals in the archive: Some ways to access Indigenous cultural texts
• Karen Patricia Heath
• Winant Inaugural Lecture 2016
• RAI|Live with Andrea Wulf - The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
• The One-Party Presidential Contest: Adams, Jackson, and 1824's Five-Horse Race
• Gary Gerstle to launch 'Liberty and Coercion'
• Gold Rush Imperialism: Gold Mining and Global History in the Age of Imperialism, c.1848-1914
• Consent in Early America, 1600-1900
• 'Politics after God': The 2018 Winant Lecture in American Government
• Lest We Forget? Reconsidering First World War Memory
• RAI seeks applications for 2018-19 Visiting Fellowships
• 'The Atlantic in the Interior': The 2018 Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History
• William Blazek: 'The Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps: Writing America's First World War'
• Sara Hirschhorn: 'City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement'
• The American Century? International History and Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century, Third Annual Symposium
• Call for Papers: The American Century? International History and Diplomacy in the 20th Century
• Former Congressmen Jim McDermott (D-WA) and Tim Murphy (R-PA) announced as Congress to Campus visitors
• RAI and Bodleian Libraries acquire Daily Mail Historical Archive 1896-2004
• Emma Rothschild to deliver 2018 Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History
• RAI joins Ashmolean Museum for 'American Cool' exhibition, May 2018
• OxWIP presents: An Evening with Alyssa Mastromonaco
• David Sehat to deliver 2018 Winant Lecture in American Government
• A 'brown man's country'? Langston Hughes in Mexico
• Former RAI fellows discuss Frederick Douglass on Radio 4's "In Our Time"
• Stephen Skowronek announced as Winant Professor for 2018-19
• Barbara Savage and Peter Mancall announced as Harmsworth Professors for 2018-19 and 2019-20
• Sally Bayley's literary memoir to be published by HarperCollins
• John J. Louis Jr. Lecture in Anglo-American Relations
• The Trump Presidency and the structure of modern American politics
• RAI Fellow Robert Schmuhl writes on Churchill in the White House
• What political scientists need to understand about Congress
• Midcentury modernisms: reinventing American nationality law in the 20th century
• Janina Dill
• Former Congressmen Jim McDermott (D-WA) and Tim Murphy (R-PA) visit RAI for Congress to Campus
• Podcast of 2018 Sir John Elliott Lecture now available
• RAI invites applications for postgraduate and academic travel awards
• RAI invites applications for one-year scholarships in American History, Politics/IR, and Literature
• VHL and Bodleian Libraries acquire American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection (1684-1912)
• Podcast of 2018 Winant Lecture now available
• Mrs Drue Heinz, DBE, 1915-2018
• RAI|Live with Ben Arogundade: Obama: 101 Best Covers
• VHL and Bodleian Libraries acquire San Francisco Chronicle, 1865-1984
• Claudia Rankine: 'The counter-narrative, the racial imaginary and visual art'
• RAI student Mitchell Robertson awarded James Holt Prize by Australasian Journal of American Studies
• Richard Carwardine wins Abraham Lincoln Institute Annual Book Award
• RAI invites applications for Supernumerary Research and Teaching Fellowships
• RAI student Emma Day awarded Schlesinger Library Dissertation Grant
• Merve Emre: 'Reading for (and against) empathy'
• The Trump Administration and the Federal Reserve under Chairman Powell: The path forward for the U.S. economy
• Merve Emre and Nicholas Gaskill appointed as Associate Professors of American Literature
• America and the Pacific World
• Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria: Culture, Politics, Place
• Ronan Ludot-Vlasak: Essays on Melville and Classical Antiquity
• Sally Bayley's "Girl With Dove" released
• Call for papers - "Incredible: lying, credibility, and the truth in historical research"
• The Philip & Rosamund Davies US Elections Campaigns Archive
• Travel Awards
• Annette Gordon-Reed: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
• Hew Strachan: The Entry of the US to the First World War: Centenary Reflections
• Incredible: lying, credibility, and the truth in historical research
• RAI Fellow Alice Kelly reflects on the commemoration of war
• Willie Lee Rose, 1927-2018
• RAI celebrates 4th July with acquisition of major Revolutionary and Congressional resources
• Oenone Kubie wins HOTCUS Postgraduate Prize
• Pete Millwood awarded LSE Fellowship
• VHL and Bodleian Libraries acquire access to War of 1812 e-resource collection
• Summer projects at the RAI
• RAI–Miller Center joint workshop: The Future of America in the World
• Drone Warfare: Trends and Emerging Issues
• RAI seeks applicants for Edward Orsborn Professorship of US Politics and Political History
• Party convention databases now accessible through VHL
• Historical Indian treaties in American and Canadian constitutional contexts
• U.S. Midterm Elections 2018: Interpreting the Results
• Book Presentation: "Meet You in Atlantic City: Travels in Springsteen’s New Jersey"
• Book Presentation: Oceans Ventured: Winning the Cold War at Sea
• Harmsworth Lecture in American History: Barbara Savage
• ‘“Du yu espik English?” Latino culture and identity in the United States’
• Open Friday at the RAI: 'In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America'
• The U.S. Midterm Elections: Implications for Immigration Law and Policy
• Open Friday at the RAI: A History of America in 100 Maps
• America's Midterm Elections and the Implications for the Trump Presidency
• RAI termcard published
• Clive Sinclair is not Philip Roth
• Raymond Lavertue
• A Global History of Gold Rushes published
• RAI and Gilder Lehrman Institute offer travel awards for research in New York City
• Carwardine Prize
• Noah Remnick receives Carwardine Prize for U.S. History M.St. students
• Cultures and Commemorations of War: American Wars, American Memory
• RAI Annual Report 2017-18 now available
• 'Clive Sinclair is not Philip Roth': podcast now available
• Huw David's 'Trade, Politics, and Revolution' published
• 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
• Electronic newspaper collections acquired for the VHL
• RAI seeks applications for 2019-20 Visiting Fellowships
• Termcard for Hilary term published
• The long-term implications of President Nixon’s healthcare programme
• Chromographia: American Literature and the Modernization of Color
• Making Oscar Wilde
• Former Members of Congress Charles Boustany (R-LA) and Donna Edwards (D-MD) announced as Congress to Campus visitors
• Winant Lecture in American Government
• New books by RAI fellows past and present
• Publications by former RAI fellows
• RAI student Mitch Robertson writes for the Washington Post
• John McNeill to give 2019 Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History
• Stephen Skowronek to give Winant Lecture in American Government
• Adam Smith named Orsborn Professor and RAI Director
• Book launch: The Ordinary Presidency of Donald J. Trump
• Huw David receives George C. Rogers Jr. book prize
• Arts Patronage in Modern America: An International Conference
• Compromise, Moderatism, Extremism, and Fanaticism: Disagreement in American Politics and Society, 1783-1861
• What students of politics need to understand about Congress
• RAI invites applications for one-year scholarships in American History, Politics/IR, and Literature
• RAI invites applications for postgraduate and academic travel awards
• Writing Black Women’s Lives: Present and Past
• GLGW Conference 2019: 'A World Transformed: The First World War and its Legacy'
• Farewell to Huw David on his last day at the RAI
• Drawing Wars: Art and Cultural Memory
• Poverty in America: The Past, Present, and Future
• Women's Transatlantic Prison Activism Since 1960
• The Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters
• Book launch - Shattered Objects: Djuna Barnes's Modernism
• Horatio Joyce awarded Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Research Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Termcard for Trinity term published
• The 2019 Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History
• Woody Guthrie and Old Man Trump
• Incoming RAI Director Adam Smith appointed to the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission
• RAI invites applications for Research Fellowships
• RAI invites applications for undergraduate travel awards
• RAI invites applications to Academic Programme Fund
• Is there a conservative approach to international relations? U.S. foreign policy from Reagan to Trump
• Irregular or Insurgent? Constructing a New Face of Battle for America's Civil War
• Bolivar, USA: the United States and Latin American independence
• RAI Lecture at the Chalke Valley History Festival: "Understanding American Government"
• Richard Carwardine honoured in Queen's Birthday Honours
• Alan Brinkley, 1940–2019
• Lunar: We Look to the Moon
• Looking back on the life and work of Toni Morrison
• Vacancy: Institute Manager
• Introducing the CLAW-RAI Visiting Fellows Program
• Princess Margaret Memorial Garden open to the public on 21 August
• Bethan Davies
• Adam Smith
• Sonia Tycko
• American History Research Seminar programme now available
• American Literature Research Seminar programme now available
• Abraham Lincoln’s greatest speech: the second inaugural
• Face-to-face with Trump: Dependent Mexico and the hegemon
• Primordial Modernism: Animals, Ideas, Transition (1927–38)
• Book launch and conversation with Yahia Lababidi
• Tessa Roynon curates exhibition in honour of Toni Morrison
• American History Graduate Seminar programme now available
• American Politics Graduate Seminar programme now available
• Peter Mancall
• Red, White, and Brew resumes from second week
• Fully funded DPhil scholarships for 2020 entry
• Harmsworth Lecture in American History
• Challenges of Washington
• Global Populism: 50 Years After
• Amendments to event programme on strike days
• The 2020 Winant Lecture in American Government
• American Literature Research Seminar programme now available
• American History Research Seminar programme now available
• VHL and RAI closure on 18 January
• Vacancy: Winant Visiting Professorship of American Government, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24
• American Politics Graduate Seminar programme now available
• The Great Debate: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley and the Civil Rights Revolution
• Applications invited for the 2020-21 Senior Visiting Research Fellowship
• Applications open for RAI travel awards
• RAI Annual Report 2018-19 now available
• RAI Book Club: "The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton (1905)
• Dr Merze Tate on IR
• The IR thought of Claudia Jones
• Life and thought of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
• Book launch - US Hegemony and the Americas: Power and Economic Statecraft in International Relations
• Book launch - The Trials of Thomas Morton
• Amendments to event programme on strike days
• Book launch - The City-State of Boston
• RAI seeks applications for Fellowships in Residence (2020-21)
• RAI seeks applications for fourth-year scholarships (2020-21)
• “LGBT Americans for”: Presidential Elections and the Movement for Gay Rights, 1980-2020
• RAI Update on Coronavirus Pandemic
• Lizabeth Cohen wins Bancroft Prize
• 'Race and the Problem of the Public in Postwar America' - recording now available
• Twitter trial
• Twitter trial
• Plymouth 400th Anniversary Roundtable
• E.E. Cummings as a Poet of the Great War: Love, Sex, Brutality, and 'the Beauty of Living'
• Film Discussion: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
• Edith Wharton as Playwright
• Film Discussion: Dr. Strangelove (1964)
• New Yorker short fiction reading group
• RAI Book Club: "Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments" by Saidiya Hartman
• The 'Oriental' Detective: Reading Race and Masculinity in Contemporary Asian American Crime Fiction
• Film Discussion: All the President's Men (1976)
• RAI Wellbeing: online sessions for housebound researchers
• Podcast
• Guest Article: What Would Good National Leadership Look Like Now?
• The Crisis Episode transcript
• The Federalism Episode transcript
• The "Don't Tread on Me" Episode transcript
• 'Healing Our Divided Society': The Kerner Commission at 50
• The New Deal Episode transcript
• The Last Best Hope Episode transcript
• Scholarship Report 2019-20: Zachary Seager
• Scholarship Report 2019-20: Emma Day
• Scholarship Report 2019-20: Mitchell Robertson
• Scholarship Report 2019-20: Daniel Abdalla
• Incoming RAI Graduate Scholars, 2020-21
• Winant Visiting Professors of American Government appointed for 2021-24
• Virtual Plenary Session: The Changing Character of the American Right
• Nicholas Cole and The Quill Project Recognised in Vice-Chancellor's Innovation Awards 2020
• History Faculty establishes Barbara Savage Prize for best undergraduate thesis in Black History
• C. J. Jenner