North American History Seminar

Venue: Online-via Zoom.
Time: Thursdays 17:30
Convenors: Jonathan Bell (UCL), Jon Chandler (UCL), Joanna Cohen (QMUL), David Cox (Southampton), Patrick Doyle (RHUL), Max Edling (KCL), Alex Goodall (UCL), Zoe Hyman (UCL), Daniel Matlin (KCL), Erik Mathisen (Kent), Angel-Luke O'Donnel (KCL), Iwan Morgan (UCL), Kendrick Oliver (Southampton), Daniel Peart (QMUL), David Sim (UCL), Nick Witham (UCL), Jane Dinwoodie (UCL) and Noam Maggor (QMUL)

Term 1- Autumn 2021

21 oct 2021

“Plantation” and the Rise of Capitalist Agriculture in the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic

Paul Musselwhite (Dartmouth College)

Online- via Zoom

03 nov 2021

Joint IHR-QMUL reading group: Grassroots Leviathan: Northern Agricultural Reform in the Slaveholding Republic

Ariel Ron (Southern Methodist University)

Online- via Zoom

18 nov 2021

Cowboys and Imperial Ecology: Rethinking Hard and Soft Power

Aaron Hiltner (UCL)

Online- via Zoom

02 dec 2021

CANCELLED Boo, Bull, and Birmingham: To Kill a Mockingbird, Black Protest, and Racial Moderation

Megan Hunt (Edinburgh)

Online- via Zoom

Term 2- Winter 2022

20 jan 2022

The United States as a Developing Nation: States and Markets on the American Frontier

Noam Maggor (Queen Mary University of London)

Online- via Zoom

03 feb 2022

Catastrophic Diplomacy: U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance in the ‘American Century’

Julia Irwin (University of South Florida)

Online- via Zoom

09 feb 2022

“If I hadn’t left, he’d been owning my little spot right now”: Farm Owners and the First Great Migration

Adrienne Petty (William & Mary)

Online- via Zoom

17 feb 2022

CANCELLED ‘Mankind Needs This Competition’: The Space Race and Cold War Chivalry in American Politics and Culture

Thomas Ellis (LSE)

Online- via Zoom

03 mar 2022

“Jes’ like policemen, only worser”: Slave Patrols and Sexual Violence

Liz Barnes (Reading)

Online- via Zoom

17 mar 2022

Boo, Bull, and Birmingham: To Kill a Mockingbird, Black Protest, and Racial Moderation

Megan Hunt (Edinburgh)

Online- via Zoom

Term 3: Spring/Summer 2022

05 may 2022

Women's Fight for Safer Sex during the AIDS Epidemic, 1980-1990

Emma Day (RAI Oxford)

Online- via Zoom

19 may 2022

Corporate Citizens of the LIEO: Multinational Corporations’ Fight Against the New International Economic Order

Elizabeth Ingleson (LSE)

Online- via Zoom

26 may 2022

The League of Nations and the Struggle for Racial Equality in the United States

Jake Hodder (Nottingham)

Online- via Zoom

01 jun 2022

Race, Rights and Reform: Black Activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War I to Cold War

Sarah Dunstan (Glasgow)

Online- via Zoom

16 jun 2022

Camouflage Tactics and Indian Non-Removal in the American South

Jane Dinwoodie (UCL)

Online- via Zoom

30 jun 2022

The 2022 Iwan Morgan Lecture: Making the News: Network Television News and the Black Freedom Struggle

Sage Goodwin (University of Oxford)

Online- via Zoom

North American History Seminar

Term 1- Autumn 2021

“Plantation” and the Rise of Capitalist Agriculture in the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic

Joint IHR-QMUL reading group: Grassroots Leviathan: Northern Agricultural Reform in the Slaveholding Republic

Cowboys and Imperial Ecology: Rethinking Hard and Soft Power

CANCELLED Boo, Bull, and Birmingham: To Kill a Mockingbird, Black Protest, and Racial Moderation

Term 2- Winter 2022

The United States as a Developing Nation: States and Markets on the American Frontier

Catastrophic Diplomacy: U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance in the ‘American Century’

“If I hadn’t left, he’d been owning my little spot right now”: Farm Owners and the First Great Migration

CANCELLED ‘Mankind Needs This Competition’: The Space Race and Cold War Chivalry in American Politics and Culture

“Jes’ like policemen, only worser”: Slave Patrols and Sexual Violence

Boo, Bull, and Birmingham: To Kill a Mockingbird, Black Protest, and Racial Moderation

Term 3: Spring/Summer 2022

Women's Fight for Safer Sex during the AIDS Epidemic, 1980-1990

Corporate Citizens of the LIEO: Multinational Corporations’ Fight Against the New International Economic Order

The League of Nations and the Struggle for Racial Equality in the United States

Race, Rights and Reform: Black Activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War I to Cold War

Camouflage Tactics and Indian Non-Removal in the American South

The 2022 Iwan Morgan Lecture: Making the News: Network Television News and the Black Freedom Struggle

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North American History Seminar

Term 1- Autumn 2021

“Plantation” and the Rise of Capitalist Agriculture in the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic

Joint IHR-QMUL reading group: Grassroots Leviathan: Northern Agricultural Reform in the Slaveholding Republic

Cowboys and Imperial Ecology: Rethinking Hard and Soft Power

*CANCELLED* Boo, Bull, and Birmingham: To Kill a Mockingbird, Black Protest, and Racial Moderation

Term 2- Winter 2022

The United States as a Developing Nation: States and Markets on the American Frontier

Catastrophic Diplomacy: U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance in the ‘American Century’

“If I hadn’t left, he’d been owning my little spot right now”: Farm Owners and the First Great Migration

*CANCELLED* ‘Mankind Needs This Competition’: The Space Race and Cold War Chivalry in American Politics and Culture

“Jes’ like policemen, only worser”: Slave Patrols and Sexual Violence

Boo, Bull, and Birmingham: To Kill a Mockingbird, Black Protest, and Racial Moderation

Term 3: Spring/Summer 2022

Women's Fight for Safer Sex during the AIDS Epidemic, 1980-1990

Corporate Citizens of the LIEO: Multinational Corporations’ Fight Against the New International Economic Order

The League of Nations and the Struggle for Racial Equality in the United States

Race, Rights and Reform: Black Activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War I to Cold War

Camouflage Tactics and Indian Non-Removal in the American South

The 2022 Iwan Morgan Lecture: Making the News: Network Television News and the Black Freedom Struggle

Related Content

United States Collections

Canadian History Collections

Caribbean History Collections

Early Modern History Collections

Modern History Collections

CANCELLED Boo, Bull, and Birmingham: To Kill a Mockingbird, Black Protest, and Racial Moderation

CANCELLED ‘Mankind Needs This Competition’: The Space Race and Cold War Chivalry in American Politics and Culture