I’ll be with you again in the late spring — May 11-14. Various commitments in that time, but be pleased to meet up, and very happy be more helpful if timings work and if I can (happy to get involved in a class, eg). But no pressure on your part.
13.02.2026 23:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A great selection. Sounds like a fab class.
13.02.2026 21:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
SAVE THE DATE 🇳🇱
#SHAFR2028
cc: @dariofazzi.bsky.social
09.02.2026 13:41 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 4
Delegates from the HOTCUS, 2024 Annual Conference at Southampton University
The CfP is now open for the 2026 HOTCUS Annual Conference (University of Manchester, 1-3 July 2026).
Please email all submissions to events.hotcus@gmail.com by midnight, UK time on 25 March, 2026.
26.01.2026 12:51 — 👍 3 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2
Animated, rotating cartoon trophy
Applications for the 2026 HOTCUS Article Prize and Early Career Article Prize are now open. Both awards recognise outstanding research on twentieth-century US history published in peer-reviewed journals during the 2025 calendar year, and each comes with a £100 prize.
19.01.2026 14:07 — 👍 5 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Plus, you’ll get to be on the judging panel for one of the most storied prizes available in academia: The (Great, and Annual) RAI Bake Off.
13.01.2026 22:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Applications open for the ‘27-28, 28-29, and 29-30 Winant Visiting Professorship of American Government. If you have any interest, please do apply; we’re a vibrant, intellectual community of Americanists and it’s visiting post that comes with lots of research time.
13.01.2026 22:01 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Come hear @danielpemberton.bsky.social and @tgreiving.bsky.social discuss Tim's new biography on John Williams. Tomorrow at 5 pm at the RAI. Books will be available for purchase. www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/john-w...
25.11.2025 13:45 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
John Williams: A Composer's Life
In two weeks, Wed 26 Nov, we are hosting a talk with author @tgreiving.bsky.social and film composer Daniel Pemberton about Tim's new book, John Williams: A Composer's Life. Details on the website here: rai2.web.ox.ac.uk/event/john-w... @oupprimary.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
11.11.2025 14:30 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
📣The Call for Papers for our 2026 Winter Symposium, The American Nation in the Twentieth Century: The Declaration of Independence at 250, is now open
University of Liverpool, 27 February 2026
30.10.2025 11:43 — 👍 3 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
Want to know more about Ronald Reagan and tariffs/trade restrictions in light of the Canada news?
Oh boy, do I have a nuanced “yes, but also no, and let me explain 12 layers of political nuance” historian’s answer for you. I guarantee that you’ll wish you never asked!
24.10.2025 06:17 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Want to know more about Ronald Reagan and tariffs/trade restrictions in light of the Canada news?
Oh boy, do I have a nuanced “yes, but also no, and let me explain 12 layers of political nuance” historian’s answer for you. I guarantee that you’ll wish you never asked!
24.10.2025 06:17 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography by Tom Arnold-Forster
Tom Arnold-Forster
Tomorrow (Oct 22) at 5:00 pm BST, join @raioxford.bsky.social in welcoming Tom Arnold-Forster for a discussion of his book, Walter Lippmann, exploring the life and ideas of one of the twentieth century's leading political thinkers.
Learn more about this in-person event here: buff.ly/5JVx5O9
21.10.2025 08:04 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
University of Missouri - Columbia - Assistant Professor (tenure-track) of U.S. Constitutional Law and Legal History | H-Net
Calling all early US legal historians! My new home at the Kinder Institute for Constitutional Democracy is hiring an Assistant Professor of of US Constitutional Law and Legal History. Can attest — a great community to work in! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69126/u...
18.09.2025 19:56 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Yes, sorry Ben. 2.5 years in the first instance — January 2026 (or soon thereafter) until 31 August 2028.
It’s in the full JD, but seemingly fell victim to the brutal character limit of these things.
15.09.2025 08:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Winant-Kinder Career Development Fellow in US Politics at University of Oxford
Recruiting now: Winant-Kinder Career Development Fellow in US Politics on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
We’re advertising for a 30 month postdoc position in US Politics (very broadly construed).
The role is mainly research, but allows the holder to gain experience teaching UK and US undergraduates. Happy to answer any and all questions.
Application deadline 27/10. (Start date early 2026.)
12.09.2025 16:12 — 👍 10 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 0
Winant-Kinder Career Development Fellow in US Politics at University of Oxford
Recruiting now: Winant-Kinder Career Development Fellow in US Politics on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
We’re advertising for a 30 month postdoc position in US Politics (very broadly construed).
The role is mainly research, but allows the holder to gain experience teaching UK and US undergraduates. Happy to answer any and all questions.
Application deadline 27/10. (Start date early 2026.)
12.09.2025 16:12 — 👍 10 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 0
Adding Value | Phenomenal World
Mortgage insurance has traditionally been the method the federal government has used to induce investment in owner-occupied housing. But for multifamily rentals, the history of mortgage-insurance prog...
Mike Glass and I argue for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social that we’ve tried the #abundance incentive-based approach to housing crises before. But lack of oversight + incentives produced fraud, profiteering, and inflated rents -- and the Trump family fortune.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/add...
12.09.2025 11:05 — 👍 86 🔁 29 💬 2 📌 3
Departmental Lecturer in 20th Century United States History at University of Oxford
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Departmental Lecturer in 20th Century United States History on jobs.ac.uk!
We’re advertising for a 12 month teaching post in 20th Century US History. Deadline 28/7 (a short turn around because we need to interview in mid-August).
We’re a great, collegial and fun US history community. Happy to answer any and all questions about the role, and the RAI Bake Off.
13.07.2025 07:11 — 👍 5 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1
Departmental Lecturer in 20th Century United States History at University of Oxford
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Departmental Lecturer in 20th Century United States History on jobs.ac.uk!
We’re advertising for a 12 month teaching post in 20th Century US History. Deadline 28/7 (a short turn around because we need to interview in mid-August).
We’re a great, collegial and fun US history community. Happy to answer any and all questions about the role, and the RAI Bake Off.
13.07.2025 07:11 — 👍 5 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1
Reminder re: 12 month post in American history at Cardiff University. For, erm well publicized reasons, we don't have budget for external advertising so you need access to the link below to apply. Please do think about applying/sharing with possible candidates. Happy to take queries
05.06.2025 09:22 — 👍 9 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0
Jobs and Vacancies
The Faculty of History and the RAI are delighted to announce that expressions of interest are now invited for the Harmsworth Visiting Professorship of American History for the academic years 2027-28, 2028-29, and 2029-30. Details: www.rai.ox.ac.uk/vacancies.
14.04.2025 14:13 — 👍 10 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1
Book cover of Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics by Oscar Winberg.
Archie Bunker for President is now available for pre-order on the UNC Press site!!
Pre-ordering is the best way of support a book so please consider heading over to the @uncpress.bsky.social site and make sure to use the code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%!!
02.05.2025 13:59 — 👍 22 🔁 10 💬 8 📌 4
Actor Benjamin Walker, dressed as a young Abraham Lincoln in a nineteenth century suit, holds an axe while standing in front of a lit candelabra and blue and yellow damask curtains.
A fan of Sinners and want to think more about American history and vampires? Have we got just the thing — our new episode on ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER is out now! Ben Willis joins to talk the other Lincoln movie from 2012 to kick off our new season. Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/4HEJ...
28.04.2025 11:10 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2
I can’t remember this, but I am happy to claim it!
16.04.2025 19:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
History DPhil at the University of Oxford
19th-century state constitutions
Documentary Editor at the Quill Project
Now available on bluesky. Mostly history. Occasional Yacht Rock and sport. Author of Spinning the World: The Public Relations Industry and American Foreign Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2025) and more
Historian. Professor. Writer. Podcaster | US and/in the World + corporations + post-apartheid/postcolonialism | Author of Black Power, Inc. | Co-host @WhoMakesCents
Housed by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, at Oxford University.
Webpage: https://torch.ox.ac.uk/environmental-humanities-research-hub?filter-4-event%20type-4780496=2s
Professor at Drexel U and managing editor of Urban Affairs Review. Author of Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy and Reforming Philadelphia, 1682-2022.
Prof of Politics at Mount Holyoke College. APD, parties, and all that good stuff. Author of True Blues — https://www.pennpress.org/9780812252996/true-blues/
Political scientist @ Northwestern. American political development and political economy. Politics of housing, credit, and debt. New Book: The Political Development of American Debt Relief.
Visiting Fellow, Princeton | Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto | American Political Thought & Constitutional Development
Political economy, urban politics, APD, neoliberalism @ualbany. Editor @UrbanAffairsRev. Also, rugby, whiskey, whisky. Author of Blazing the Neoliberal Trail & Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City
tprweaver.com
Political Scientist doing American political development, urban studies & Maps. Last chopper out of twitter-land
36 Craven Street, London - the world’s only remaining Franklin residence, where he lived from 1757-1775
Open to the public Wednesday-Sunday
linktr.ee/benjaminfranklinhouse
Historian of globalisation, capitalism and economic cultures | Professor at The University of Manchester | Director of the Centre for Economic Cultures
Associate Professor of U.S. History @unibirmingham.bsky.social. Wrote a book about world's fairs in Atlanta (1895) and Nashville (1897) for OUP. Trying to write another one about Americans, bicycles, and the world. Bio: https://shorturl.at/wybsY
Assistant Professor of History | University of Cambridge | Historian of 20c U.S. religion, politics, and culture | Book w/ NYU Press | Sucker for books and coffee | Views are simply my own.
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-nicholas-pruitt
Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM).
Historian at Boston College. Pre-order CRACKED FOUNDATIONS: Debt and Inequality in Suburban America (@PennPress, 10/7): https://tinyurl.com/yc5evxeh
Producer on BBC World Service radio's Newshour. Background / interest in science, politics & law esp. international / human rights. NUJ (union) rep. Jazz / garden / nature / food enthusiast now living in Tunbridge Wells. lucy.bailey@bbc.co.uk
BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Mediocre historian. University of Lincoln, UK
'Not Just a Housewife: Women Strike for Peace and the Cold War Women's Peace Movement' out October 2025
| Histories of activism | protest suicide | information literacy
Senior case writer at Blavatnik School of Government | PhD in US History, history of childhood, progressive-era
