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'Race and the Problem of the Public in Postwar America' - recording now available

Reflections panel

'Reflections on the Obamas in office' blog now online

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'The Not So Odd Couple: Richard Nixon and Daniel Patrick Moynihan': video now online

Adam Smith named Orsborn Professor and RAI Director

Alan Brinkley, 1940–2019

Amendments to event programme on strike days

Amendments to event programme on strike days

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America's Overseas Voters: How they could decide the US Presidency in 2016

Super Tuesday voting at the RAI, 2016

American expats cast their votes at the RAI on 'Super Tuesday'

American Politics Graduate Seminar programme now available

American Politics Graduate Seminar programme now available

American Voices International: RAI hosts launch of new PAC

Applications for 2021-22 Fellowships-in-Residence now open

Applications invited for the 2020-21 Senior Visiting Research Fellowship

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Applications now open for 2016 Travel Awards

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Applications open for RAI travel awards

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Congress to Campus One Year On

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Could US overseas voters in UK, France, Canada and Israel swing key US states?

what hath god wrought

David Sehat and Daniel Walker Howe in conversation

David Sehat to deliver 2018 Winant Lecture in American Government

Desmond King and Lawrence Jacobs publish 'Fed Power: How Finance Wins'

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Five Questions with… Winant Visiting Professor of American Government Robert Lieberman

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Former Congressmen Jim McDermott (D-WA) and Tim Murphy (R-PA) announced as Congress to Campus visitors

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Former Congressmen Jim McDermott (D-WA) and Tim Murphy (R-PA) visit RAI for Congress to Campus

The Star Spangled Banner above the RAI

Former Congressmen Vic Fazio (D) and Randy Neugebauer (R) announced as Congress to Campus visitors

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Former Members of Congress Charles Boustany (R-LA) and Donna Edwards (D-MD) announced as Congress to Campus visitors

Fully funded DPhil scholarships for 2020 entry

Gareth Davies and David Sehat in conversation

Gloria Steinem in Oxford

Guest Article: What Would Good National Leadership Look Like Now?

Hilary termcard published

How the Republican Party can stop Donald Trump: RAI's Tom Packer tells BBC Radio

Incoming Graduate Scholars

Incoming RAI Graduate Scholars, 2020-21

Introducing our New Three-Year Doctoral Scholars

Introducing this Year's RAI Fellows-in-Residence

Lizabeth Cohen wins Bancroft Prize

Mara Keire discusses populism with Melvyn Bragg on 'In Our Time'

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New books by RAI fellows past and present

Book covers: Shafer, Sanger, Hilliard

New publications by RAI fellows

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New Series on the Future of American Politics

Obituary: Godfrey Hodgson (1934–2021)

1960 RNC guest ticket

Party convention databases now accessible through VHL

Pete Millwood awarded LSE Fellowship

Podcast of 2018 Winant Lecture now available

Publications by former RAI fellows

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RAI and Bodleian Libraries acquire Daily Mail Historical Archive 1896-2004

RAI announces establishment of Edward Orsborn Professorship of US Politics and Political History

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RAI Annual Report 2016-17 now available

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RAI Annual Report 2017-18 now available

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RAI Annual Report 2018-19 now available

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RAI celebrates 4th July with acquisition of major Revolutionary and Congressional resources

RAI Coronavirus Support Fund

RAI Fellow Mary King discusses Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come" on BBC Radio 4 'Soul Music'

RAI Fellow Tom Packer discusses Iowa caucus on BBC Radio's 'Sunday Supplement'

RAI invites applications for graduate scholarships in American History and Politics

RAI invites applications for one-year scholarships in American History, Politics/IR, and Literature

RAI invites applications for one-year scholarships in American History, Politics/IR, and Literature

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RAI invites applications for postgraduate and academic travel awards

RAI invites applications for postgraduate and academic travel awards

RAI invites applications for Research Fellowships

RAI invites applications for undergraduate travel awards

RAI invites applications to Academic Programme Fund

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RAI Launches 'America and Race' Bibliography

RAI seeks applicants for Edward Orsborn Professorship of US Politics and Political History

The Rothermere American Institute seeks applicants for the newly established and endowed Edward Orsborn Professorship of US Politics and Political History

RAI seeks applications for 2018-19 Visiting Fellowships

RAI seeks applications for 2019-20 Visiting Fellowships

RAI seeks applications for Fellowships in Residence (2020-21)

RAI seeks applications for fourth-year scholarships (2020-21)

RAI student Mitch Robertson writes for the Washington Post

RAI termcard published

The Rothermere American Institute's programme of events for Michaelmas term is now available.

RAI Wellbeing: online sessions for housebound researchers

RAI's Ursula Hackett and Nigel Bowles discuss Donald Trump in The Independent

Red, White, and Brew resumes from second week

Reflections from the Winant Chair

Mitch Robertson

Scholarship Report 2019-20: Mitchell Robertson

Special American Politics Week begins Hilary Term at RAI

Stephen Skowronek announced as Winant Professor for 2018-19

United States Capitol

Stephen Skowronek to give Winant Lecture in American Government

Summer projects at the RAI

Termcard for Hilary term published

Termcard for Trinity term published

Donald Trump official portrait

The Trump Administration and The New Nationalism

US Army in Britain

The United States and World War One — recordings now available

Tom Cutterham and David Sehat in conversation

Trinity termcard published

RAI 15th anniversary

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

Vacancy: Winant Visiting Professorship of American Government, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24

VHL and RAI closure on 18 January

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Winant Lecture recording now available

Winant Professors 2021-24

Winant Visiting Professors of American Government appointed for 2021-24

“LGBT Americans for”: Presidential Elections and the Movement for Gay Rights, 1980-2020

People

Nigel Bowles

Distinguished Fellow

Janina Dill

John G. Winant Associate Professor of U.S. Foreign Policy

Thomas Gift

Fellow-in-Residence

C. J. Jenner

Desmond King

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government

Robert Lieberman

Winant Visiting Professor of American Government

Spiros Makris

Fellow-in-Residence

Tom Packer

Associate Fellow

Mitchell Robertson

Daniel Rowe

John G. Winant Lecturer in American Politics and Government

Adam Smith

Edward Orsborn Professor of US Politics and Political History

Director of the RAI

Events

LBJ with Kerner Commission

'Healing Our Divided Society': The Kerner Commission at 50

'Politics after God': The 2018 Winant Lecture in American Government

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Donald Trump swearing in ceremony

100 Down, 265 To Go: First Milestone on President Trump’s First Year

A Post-Mortem of the 2016 U.S. Election

The Last of the President's Men

Alexander P. Butterfield: The Making of 'The Last of the President's Men'

Trump and the structure of american politics

America's Midterm Elections and the Implications for the Trump Presidency

Arts Patronage in Modern America: An International Conference

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Book launch - US Hegemony and the Americas: Power and Economic Statecraft in International Relations

Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford, OX2 6LY

Michaelmas Book Launches

Book Launch: Nadia Hilliard and Tom Cutterham

Trump and the structure of american politics

Book launch: The Ordinary Presidency of Donald J. Trump

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Book Launch: Why Academic Freedom Matters

John Lehman, Oceans Ventured

Book Presentation: Oceans Ventured: Winning the Cold War at Sea

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Challenges of Washington

Rothermere American Institute, 1a South Parks Road, OX1 3UB

Congress to Campus

Congress to Campus

Congress to Campus 2021

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Cultures and Commemorations of War: American Wars, American Memory

Daniel Patrick Moynihan's America

Dr Merze Tate on IR

St Cross College, Oxford, OX1 3JP

Drone Warfare: Trends and Emerging Issues

Face-to-face with Trump: Dependent Mexico and the hegemon

Rothermere American Institute, 1a South Parks Road, OX1 3UB

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Fellows' Forum: Praise the Native Gardener, but Tax His Hunter Counterpart: The Case of the 1921 Alaska Fur Tax

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Film Discussion: All the President's Men (1976)

Dr Strangelove General Buck Turgidson

Film Discussion: Dr. Strangelove (1964)

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Film Discussion: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Gary Gerstle to launch 'Liberty and Coercion'

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Global Populism: 50 Years After

St Antony's College: Nissan Lecture Theatre and Investcorp Lecture Theatre

Treaty between the Ottawa Chippewa Wyandot and Potawatomi Indians

Historical Indian treaties in American and Canadian constitutional contexts

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Increasing the number and influence of women in elected and appointed office in the United States and around the world

Is there a conservative approach to international relations? U.S. foreign policy from Reagan to Trump

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Lyndon B Johnson, December 1967

Joining the Revolution: Lyndon Johnson, the Modern Presidency and the Civil Rights Movement

Life and thought of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Somerville College, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HD

Looking Back, Looking Forward: Reflections on the Obamas in Office

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Lunar: We Look to the Moon

Proscholium, Old Bodleian Library (display); Blackwell Hall, Weston Library (activity day)

Midcentury modernisms: reinventing American nationality law in the 20th century

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Open House: U.S. Elections 2016

Alyssa Mastromonaco

OxWIP presents: An Evening with Alyssa Mastromonaco

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Poverty in America: The Past, Present, and Future

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The Star Spangled Banner above the RAI

Presidential Elections Round-table: The Mobilization of Voters Overseas

Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria: Culture, Politics, Place

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Race and the 2020 Election

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Racialisation and the Media: From Television to Twitter

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RAI Book Club: Barack Obama's A Promised Land

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RAI Lecture at the Chalke Valley History Festival: "Understanding American Government"

Chalke Valley History Festival, Broad Chalke, Wiltshire

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RAI|Live with Ben Arogundade: Obama: 101 Best Covers

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RAI–Miller Center joint workshop: The Future of America in the World

City on a Hilltop

Sara Hirschhorn: 'City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement'

The 2016 Ambassador John J. Louis Jr. Lecture in Anglo-American Relations

The 2020 Election Results: What They Mean for the UK and the World

The 2020 Election: A Postgraduate and ECR Perspective

The 2020 US Election: What Happened?

The 2020 US Election: Who’s Winning?

The 2020 Winant Lecture in American Government

Rothermere American Institute, 1a South Parks Road, OX1 3UB

The American Century poster

The American Century? International History and Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century, Third Annual Symposium

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The Biden Administration: Priorities and Challenges

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The Future of the Democratic Party

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The Future of the Republican Party

The Great Debate: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley and the Civil Rights Revolution

Rothermere American Institute, 1a South Parks Road, OX1 3UB

The IR thought of Claudia Jones

St Cross College, Oxford, OX1 3JP

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The One-Party Presidential Contest: Adams, Jackson, and 1824's Five-Horse Race

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The RAI Goes to the Movies: Daughters of the Dust (1991)

The RAI Goes to the Movies: Get Out (2017)

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The RAI Goes to the Movies: I am Not Your Negro (2016)

Moonlight (2016)

The RAI Goes to the Movies: Moonlight (2016)

The RAI Goes to the Movies: Selma (2014)

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The RAI Goes to the Movies: Sorry to Bother You (2018) and Blindspotting (2018)

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The RAI Goes to the Movies: The Watermelon Woman (1996)

2016 campaign ephemera

The Taming of the Shrill: Gender, Language and Power in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

The Trump Administration and the Federal Reserve under Chairman Powell: The path forward for the U.S. economy

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The Trump Administration and The New Nationalism

Trump and the structure of american politics

The Trump Presidency and the structure of modern American politics

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The Trump Presidency: How is he using the legislative 'tools'?

The U.S. Midterm Elections: Implications for Immigration Law and Policy

The US Presidential Election: Who Will Win

Electoral College 2016

U.S. Elections 2016: Interpreting the Results

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U.S. Midterm Elections 2018: Interpreting the Results

Presidential Inauguration

U.S. Presidential Inauguration

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Virtual Plenary Session: The Changing Character of the American Right

What Political Scientists Need to Understand about Congress

Jim McDermott and Tim Murphy

What political scientists need to understand about Congress

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What students of politics need to understand about Congress

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Winant Inaugural Lecture 2016

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Winant Lecture in American Government

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Winant Lecture in American Government: The American Civil Rights State

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Women's Transatlantic Prison Activism Since 1960

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Woody Guthrie and Old Man Trump

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