Application Advice: Gerald Ford Presidential Foundation
This month I am visiting the United States for eighteen days to conduct primary source research central to my PhD thesis, ‘Spies, civil liberties and the Senate: the 1975 Church Committee’. It is the...
View ArticleAmerican Studies across Borders: International Opportunities for PhDs and...
International experience has become a prerequisite for success in academia - but depending on how you look at it, this can be exciting and terrifying in equal measure. I'm launching a new USSO series...
View ArticleAward Experience: BAAS Postgraduate Travel Award
When I found out I had been awarded the BAAS Postgraduate Travel Award my first feeling was, unsurprisingly, elation. As a student of nineteenth-century U.S. politics I viewed my proposed two week...
View ArticleApplication Advice: BAAS Postgraduate Travel Award
I have applied for the BAAS Postgraduate Travel Award twice, and this year I was lucky enough to win. The Award contributed towards a research trip to the United States to access archival source...
View ArticleMy Research across Borders: Lonneke Geerlings
‘My Research’ is a new feature that aims to introduce and summarise the research of Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers within the field of American and Canadian Studies. Sit back, and get to...
View ArticleIn The Fields Of Democracy: The Midwest In World War I
World War I generated a new narrative in American national identity. The easterly crusade to save the Old World, or, in President Wilson’s words, to make the world ‘safe for democracy’, reversed the...
View ArticleIntroducing ‘The American South’: A Free Online Course from the Institute of...
On 31 October 2016, over 4,600 learners across the world will begin a unique, five-week online education experience. Encouraged to ponder all things southern – from Martin Luther King, Jr. to the mint...
View ArticleAmerican Studies across Borders: International Opportunities for PhDs and...
International experience has become a prerequisite for success in academia – but depending on how you look at it, this can be exciting and terrifying in equal measure. In the second interview of this...
View ArticleResearch Skills as Survival Skills in the Post-Truth Age
In the first post of our brandnew series "Critique, Outreach, Practice," Katie Myerscough advocates research skills as survival skills for secondary school students. Continue reading
View ArticleThe Stettheimer Dollhouse: A Life and Salon in MiniatureWinner of the BAAS...
For twenty years, the Stettheimer salon (1915-1935) reigned as one of the central cultural hubs of 20th-century New York. Led by sisters Florine, Ettie, and Carrie, the salon cultivated an influential...
View ArticleThe Importance of Sherry Receptions; or, Where Are All The Women In This...
n spring 2017, BAAS and the Cadbury Research Library became partners in a project to develop and promote use of the BAAS archive, held in Special Collections at the University of Birmingham. They...
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