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• Five Questions with… Winant Visiting Professor of American Government Robert Lieberman
• Congress to Campus One Year On
• Five Questions with… Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art Emily Burns
• Reflections from the Winant Chair
• Obituary: Godfrey Hodgson (1934–2021)
• Reports from last year's Fellows-in-Residence
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• Introducing this Year's RAI Fellows-in-Residence
• RAI Launches 'America and Race' Bibliography
• RAI intern reflects on podcasting experience
• 2020 Carwardine Prize Announced
• Introducing our New Three-Year Doctoral Scholars
• History Faculty establishes Barbara Savage Prize for best undergraduate thesis in Black History
• 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
• Scholarship Report 2019-20: Mitchell Robertson
• 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 seeks applications for fourth-year scholarships (2020-21)
• RAI seeks applications for Fellowships in Residence (2020-21)
• Amendments to event programme on strike days
• RAI Annual Report 2018-19 now available
• Applications open for RAI travel awards
• Applications invited for the 2020-21 Senior Visiting Research Fellowship
• American History Research Seminar programme now available
• American Politics Graduate Seminar programme now available
• Vacancy: Winant Visiting Professorship of American Government, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24
• VHL and RAI closure on 18 January
• American Literature Research Seminar programme now available
• Vacancy: Communications and Events Officer
• Vacancy: Institute Administrator
• Fully funded DPhil scholarships for 2020 entry
• Red, White, and Brew resumes from second week
• Tessa Roynon curates exhibition in honour of Toni Morrison
• Introducing the CLAW-RAI Visiting Fellows Program
• Vacancy: Institute Manager
• Looking back on the life and work of Toni Morrison
• Alan Brinkley, 1940–2019
• Richard Carwardine honoured in Queen's Birthday Honours
• RAI invites applications for undergraduate travel awards
• RAI invites applications to Academic Programme Fund
• RAI invites applications for Research Fellowships
• Incoming RAI Director Adam Smith appointed to the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission
• Termcard for Trinity term published
• 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
• Termcard for Hilary term published
• 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
• RAI termcard published
• Party convention databases now accessible through VHL
• RAI seeks applicants for Edward Orsborn Professorship of US Politics and Political History
• 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
• RAI invites applications for Supernumerary Research and Teaching Fellowships
• 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
• American Literature Research Seminar cancelled
• 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
• RAI seeks applications for 2018-19 Visiting Fellowships
• 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 invites applications for Esmond Harmsworth Scholarships in American Literature
• 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 invites applications for graduate scholarships in American History and Politics
• 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
• Hilary termcard published
• Trinity termcard published
• Sally Bayley's 'The Private Life of the Diary' acclaimed by reviewers
• Applications now open for 2016 Travel Awards
• 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
• Sunday opening at the Vere Harmsworth Library
• 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
• Princess Margaret Memorial Garden opens to public, 21st August
• Mandy Izadi appointed Broadbent Junior Research Fellow in American History
• Applications open for RAI travel awards and fourth-year studentships
• Alice Kelly writes in latest Times Literary Supplement
• Applications sought for RAI Travel Awards
• The Trump Administration and The New Nationalism
• Applications open for Broadbent Junior Research Fellowship in American History
• 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 seeks applicants for Edward Orsborn Professorship of US Politics and Political History
• 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
• AHRS: Safari for Souls: Billy Graham, US Evangelicalism, and the Cold War in Africa
• ALRS: Emerson's Economy of Pain
• AHRS: "The importance of money in the therapeutic relationship": sexual health services and the politics of LGBTQ rights in 1970s and 80s America
• AHRS: Class and State in America's Greater Reconstruction
• AHRS: Settler Colonialism, Alaska Natives, and Tribal Sovereignty: The Socio-Legal History of the Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government
• RAI Book Club: Barack Obama's A Promised Land
• Woody Guthrie and Old Man Trump
• Bethan Davies
• Raymond Lavertue
• Mara Keire
• Merve Emre
• Richard Purkiss
• Nazita Lajevardi
• Adam Smith
• Peter Thompson
• Nicholas Cole
• Tara Stubbs
• Alice Kelly
• Tom Packer
• Brenda Stevenson
• Nicholas Gaskill
• Daniel Rowe
• Cathryn Setz
• Mitchell Robertson
• Christoph Nitschke
• Stephen Tuffnell
• Lloyd Pratt
• Rachel Malkin
• Desmond King
• Janina Dill
• Pekka Hämäläinen
• Gareth Davies
• Rivers Gambrell
• Emma Day
• Maximilien Zahnd
• Jay Sexton
• Halbert Jones
• Richard Carwardine
• Nigel Bowles
• Karen Patricia Heath
• Stephen Tuck
• Abraham Lincoln’s greatest speech: the second inaugural
• 'A fearful sense': Ruskin's pathetic fallacy and the non-human world
• "Masters of the Seas: Naval Power and the First World War": inaugural RAI Lecture at the Chalke Valley History Festival
• American History
• American Literature
• Podcast
• "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
• America and the Pacific World
• American History Graduate Seminar programme now available
• American Politics
• 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
• Merve Emre: '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
• Open Friday at the RAI: A History of America in 100 Maps
• 'Politics after God': The 2018 Winant Lecture in American Government
• 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
• RAI Book Club: Joe Sacco's Paying the Land (2020)
• RAI invites applications for one-year scholarships in American History, Politics/IR, and Literature
• RAI invites applications for postgraduate and academic travel awards
• RAI seeks applications for 2019-20 Visiting Fellowships
• 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
• The 2019 Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History
• 'The Atlantic in the Interior': The 2018 Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History
• The Drue Heinz Professorship of American Literature: Inaugural Lecture
• 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
• Winant Lecture in American Government
• The American Dilemma Episode
• Zhao Ng
• Katy Long
• Patrick Griffin
• Fellows-in-Residence
• Bounding Maritime Power in the South China Sea
• Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters
• Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History
• RAI Book Club: "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
• The Reconstruction Episode
• The My Whole Soul Episode
• The Insurrection Episode
• The Elected King Episode
• The Better Angels Episode
• The Viva La Revolución Episode
• 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
• The "Don't Tread on Me" Episode
• The Federalism Episode
• The Crisis Episode
• 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
• Winant Inaugural Lecture 2016
• AHRS: Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship and Capitalism in the Black Atlantic
• Announcement of New Graduate Scholars
• American History Research Seminar programme now available
• American Literature Research Seminar programme now available
• Amendments to event programme on strike days
• Princess Margaret Memorial Garden open to the public on 21 August
• Princess Margaret Memorial Garden opens to public, 22nd August
• 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
• The Camden slave conspiracy of 1816
• Book Launch: The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
• Claudia Rankine: '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)
• RAI Book Club: "The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton (1905)
• The US Presidential Election: Who Will Win
• Gary Gerstle to launch 'Liberty and Coercion'
• Challenges of Washington
• Geoff Shepard: The Criminalization of American Politics, from Nixon to Now
• The Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters
• 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
• The 2020 Winant Lecture in American Government
• Film Discussion: All the President's Men (1976)
• The Trump Administration and The New Nationalism
• The RAI Goes to the Movies: Moonlight (2016)
• The 2017 Harmsworth Lecture in American History: Elliott West
• Bolivar, USA: the United States and Latin American independence
• The Future of the Republican Party
• ALRS: Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling
• William Blazek: 'The Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps: Writing America's First World War'
• Edith Wharton as Playwright
• ALRS: James Baldwin’s Another Country (1962): a discussion
• 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
• The 2016 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters
• The Future of the Democratic Party
• Book Launch: Nadia Hilliard and Tom Cutterham
• RAI Lecture at the Chalke Valley History Festival: "Understanding American Government"
• Film Discussion: Dr. Strangelove (1964)
• The Trump Presidency: How is he using the legislative 'tools'?
• Harmsworth Lecture in American History: Barbara Savage
• 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
• OxEARS: 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
• Poverty in America: The Past, Present, and Future
• Congress to Campus 2021
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan's America
• RAI Interdisciplinary Summer School 2016: Action Figures
• Sara Hirschhorn: 'City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement'
• Looking Back, Looking Forward: Reflections on the Obamas in Office
• E.E. Cummings as a Poet of the Great War: Love, Sex, Brutality, and 'the Beauty of Living'
• 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
• AHRS: Financial Matters, Black Lives: White Collar Crime and the Racial Wealth Gap
• AHGS: Social Media Panel
• AHRS: Branding a Business of Bigotry: John Van Evrie and the Mass Marketing of ‘White Supremacy’
• 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
• OxEARS: (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
• The One-Party Presidential Contest: Adams, Jackson, and 1824's Five-Horse Race
• OxEARS: Wealth and Economic Growth in the Early American Republic, 1775–1815
• AHRS: Johnny Cash and Black Lives
• OxEARS: 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)
• OxEARS: Forced Reproduction in the Antebellum South, 1808-1865
• Winant Lecture in American Government: The American Civil Rights State
• AHRS: Remembering American Slavery and Russian Serfdom during the Post-Emancipation Era
• Fellows' Forum: Praise the Native Gardener, but Tax His Hunter Counterpart: The Case of the 1921 Alaska Fur Tax
• AHRS: Educating for a New Economy: The Struggle to Rebuild a Jim Crow State
• 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
• AHRS: The Camden slave conspiracy of 1816
• Book Launch - Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War (2020)
• The RAI Goes to the Movies: Selma (2014)
• The 'Oriental' Detective: Reading Race and Masculinity in Contemporary Asian American Crime Fiction
• New Yorker short fiction reading group
• Plymouth 400th Anniversary Roundtable
• Film Discussion: 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
• Harmsworth Lecture in American History
• 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
• A History of America in 100 Maps
• 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
• Hilton Als: 'The essay-as-criticism'
• Hilton Als: '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
• The 2016-17 Harmsworth Lecture in American History: Professor Alan Taylor
• 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
• OxEARS: The Novel Reading Disease and the Democratisation of American Nationalism
• What political scientists need to understand about Congress
• The 2016 Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History
• 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
• AHRS: What Snoopy Can Teach Us about Popular Political Discourse
• Arts Patronage in Modern America: An International Conference
• OxEARS: Money, Politics, and the Establishment of the U.S. Mint, 1784-1828
• The Biden Administration: Priorities and Challenges
• Writing Black Women’s Lives: Present and Past
• Is there a conservative approach to international relations? U.S. foreign policy from Reagan to Trump
• OxEARS: Contextualizing Wampanoag Women's Petitions in the Era of Removal, 1800–1835
• The American Century? International History and Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century, Third Annual Symposium
• On Compromise: Rachel Greenwald Smith in conversation with Merve Emre
• Women’s Worlds: New Histories of the United States and the World
• A Conversation with Michelle Daniel Jones
• Free Indirect: The Novel Form, its Thought and its Limits
• Round table: Medicine and Slavery in Early America
• A Conversation with Romarilyn Ralston
• Concealing Intervention: Assisting the Automobile Industry in the "Age of Reagan"
• RAI Welcome Reception
• "The Common Cause": Contesting Early American Citizenship in the Longchamps Affair 1784-1786
• Daring Love: Ivan Turgenev and Henry James
• Writing Emotionally Difficult Histories
• The Unexceptional Roots of American Exceptionalism: America in the Age of Revolution
• Response to the Harmsworth Lecture
• 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
• Michael Kalisch
• Raphaël Lambert
• Sarah Schulman in conversation with Amia Srinivasan
• Michèle Mendelssohn
• Tennessee Student Activism from Brown to Kent State
• 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
• Ananya Malhotra
• Benjamin Gladstone
• Brody McDonald
• Caine Lewin-Turner
• Camila Pelsinger
• Damian Maher
• Elizabeth Rees
• Emma Felin
• Henry Wu
• Indiana Sobol
• Emma Slater
• Jacob Brandler
• Jessica Leeper
• Joshua Lappen
• Katherine Fapp
• Martha Swift
• Neil Suchak
• 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
• A Spectacular Fall: Moncure Conway's Civil War
• Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
• "The American Invasion of Our Theatre": Black Cultural Archives, African American Theatre Makers and Surveillance in 1940s London
• The Birth of Neoliberal Anti-Environmentalism in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s
• #Charlottesville: Media Events and the Long Struggle Against White Supremacy
• The Ghost as Pedagogue
• 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
• Laura Ellyn Smith
• The 1776 Episode
• The Billy Graham Episode
• American Ground
• American Ground
• 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
• Gwion Jones
• 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
• US Evangelicalism Abroad
• Faith and Philanthropy: America's Charitable Impulse for the Global Good
• Rethinking America in Africa: U.S. Expansion, Race, and the 'Scramble for Africa'
• 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
• Janet Wilson
• 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
• Giuseppe Paparella
• Matthew Hill
• The Propaganda Episode
• The Uncle Tom Episode
• Abdul Nasser Rad
• Emily Brady
• Kate Schneider
• Max Nathanson
• Nicholas Duddy