BrANCH
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Association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
We welcome members from the UK, US & beyond
Affiliated with American Nineteenth Century History (ANCH)
Find out more about us: https://www.branch.org.uk/
We welcome members from the UK, US & beyond
Affiliated with American Nineteenth Century History (ANCH)
Find out more about us: https://www.branch.org.uk/
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Thrilled to have this roundtable on @profmsinha.bsky.social's (most recent!) hugely significant book. As ever, if you're interested in submitting to @anchistjournal.bsky.social - whether a research essay, historiographical or methodological piece, or perhaps a review roundtable - drop us a line!
Very grateful to American Nineteenth Century History’s David Cox for putting together this wonderful symposium on #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic which grew out of the panel on the book at the United States Intellectual History conference organized by Benjamin Park.
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Thrilled to have this roundtable on @profmsinha.bsky.social's (most recent!) hugely significant book. As ever, if you're interested in submitting to @anchistjournal.bsky.social - whether a research essay, historiographical or methodological piece, or perhaps a review roundtable - drop us a line!
✅ Rare experience to study at the world-class Kinder Institute in Missouri
✅ Fully-funded, including health insurance and stipend
✅ Opportunity to develop skills, make friends, travel, & more!
Time is running out to apply for the Kinder-BrANCh MA Fellowship in Atlantic History & Politics (12 Dec)
✅ Fully-funded, including health insurance and stipend
✅ Opportunity to develop skills, make friends, travel, & more!
Time is running out to apply for the Kinder-BrANCh MA Fellowship in Atlantic History & Politics (12 Dec)
An unrivaled opportunity to study in the ‘show me’ state:
Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27!
www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...
Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27!
www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...
Kinder-BrANCH MA Fellowship — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
www.branch.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
✅ Rare experience to study at the world-class Kinder Institute in Missouri
✅ Fully-funded, including health insurance and stipend
✅ Opportunity to develop skills, make friends, travel, & more!
Time is running out to apply for the Kinder-BrANCh MA Fellowship in Atlantic History & Politics (12 Dec)
✅ Fully-funded, including health insurance and stipend
✅ Opportunity to develop skills, make friends, travel, & more!
Time is running out to apply for the Kinder-BrANCh MA Fellowship in Atlantic History & Politics (12 Dec)
While not necessarily BrANCH, a nice opportunity for someone interested in modern British and Irish history…
universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/ihr_app...
universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/ihr_app...
IHR Applied History Fellowship 2026 - School of Advanced Study
universityoflondon.smapply.io
November 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
While not necessarily BrANCH, a nice opportunity for someone interested in modern British and Irish history…
universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/ihr_app...
universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/ihr_app...
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On this important anniversary, see also Adam Smith's powerful article on Gettysburg and American history. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
As ever, we'd love to hear from authors with planned research articles on 19th C American History. Drop us a line!
As ever, we'd love to hear from authors with planned research articles on 19th C American History. Drop us a line!
November 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
On this important anniversary, see also Adam Smith's powerful article on Gettysburg and American history. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
As ever, we'd love to hear from authors with planned research articles on 19th C American History. Drop us a line!
As ever, we'd love to hear from authors with planned research articles on 19th C American History. Drop us a line!
As we look forward to a new year (and a season of gift-giving 😉), a hot off-the-press “Carolinian Crucible” by Dr. Patrick Doyle, an insightful history of South Carolina and the US Civil War, including the often overlooked upcountry, should be of great interest 📖!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
Carolinian Crucible
Cambridge Core - American History 1861-1900 - Carolinian Crucible
www.cambridge.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
As we look forward to a new year (and a season of gift-giving 😉), a hot off-the-press “Carolinian Crucible” by Dr. Patrick Doyle, an insightful history of South Carolina and the US Civil War, including the often overlooked upcountry, should be of great interest 📖!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
As people celebrate Veterans/Armistice day, I hope they don’t forget the 19th Century and the works of those like Clara Barton, Walt Whitman, Susie King Taylor, and Dr. Mary Edwards Walker…
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
As people celebrate Veterans/Armistice day, I hope they don’t forget the 19th Century and the works of those like Clara Barton, Walt Whitman, Susie King Taylor, and Dr. Mary Edwards Walker…
Even if it is a bit of an advertisement, a nice little message about reading up on the crucial Indigenous part of United States history!
Celebrate Native American Heritage Month by learning more about the long, rich, complex histories of North America's Native peoples with books from Hopkins Press, including "Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of Colonial South Carolina," "Traitor," and more.
www.press.jhu.edu/ne...
www.press.jhu.edu/ne...
November 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Even if it is a bit of an advertisement, a nice little message about reading up on the crucial Indigenous part of United States history!
A neat little guide to think about archives!
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
A neat little guide to think about archives!
Government is STILL closed, but history STILL doesn’t stop…
Fortunate to have visited the riley-bolton house, where Josiah Henson spent his formative years, on Maryland’s #EmancipationDay
Fortunate to have visited the riley-bolton house, where Josiah Henson spent his formative years, on Maryland’s #EmancipationDay
November 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Government is STILL closed, but history STILL doesn’t stop…
Fortunate to have visited the riley-bolton house, where Josiah Henson spent his formative years, on Maryland’s #EmancipationDay
Fortunate to have visited the riley-bolton house, where Josiah Henson spent his formative years, on Maryland’s #EmancipationDay
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The latest issue of American Nineteenth Century History has just dropped online - the perfect thing to fill that awkward gap between Halloween and Thanksgiving! 🎃 🦃 🇺🇸 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fanc20/c...
American Nineteenth Century History
Volume 26, Issue 2 of American Nineteenth Century History
www.tandfonline.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The latest issue of American Nineteenth Century History has just dropped online - the perfect thing to fill that awkward gap between Halloween and Thanksgiving! 🎃 🦃 🇺🇸 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fanc20/c...
What is your favorite American Nineteenth Century story (either set or written in) to tell on Halloween?
Mine is a little tale about the village of Sleepy Hollow and the headless horseman 🎃
Lots of happy tricks and treats to everyone!
Mine is a little tale about the village of Sleepy Hollow and the headless horseman 🎃
Lots of happy tricks and treats to everyone!
October 31, 2025 at 2:46 PM
What is your favorite American Nineteenth Century story (either set or written in) to tell on Halloween?
Mine is a little tale about the village of Sleepy Hollow and the headless horseman 🎃
Lots of happy tricks and treats to everyone!
Mine is a little tale about the village of Sleepy Hollow and the headless horseman 🎃
Lots of happy tricks and treats to everyone!
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OPPORTUNITY: Expressions of interest for Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships to be held at the University of East Anglia are invited.
Deadline: 17th November
Learn more:
Deadline: 17th November
Learn more:
University of East Anglia: Leverhulme Trust ECF - British Association for American Studies
UEA: 2026 call for the Postdoc Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
OPPORTUNITY: Expressions of interest for Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships to be held at the University of East Anglia are invited.
Deadline: 17th November
Learn more:
Deadline: 17th November
Learn more:
October 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I was walking around the Alamo (Texas) when I learned the CEO of the trust that maintains the grounds resigned over a dispute how the history of the 1836 battle is taught…
If the 19th century still matters and is a contested space, couldn’t that be more reason to fund 19th Century US historians 😉
If the 19th century still matters and is a contested space, couldn’t that be more reason to fund 19th Century US historians 😉
October 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I was walking around the Alamo (Texas) when I learned the CEO of the trust that maintains the grounds resigned over a dispute how the history of the 1836 battle is taught…
If the 19th century still matters and is a contested space, couldn’t that be more reason to fund 19th Century US historians 😉
If the 19th century still matters and is a contested space, couldn’t that be more reason to fund 19th Century US historians 😉
Deadline to apply is December 12, 2025
So if you are a student who has recently completed, or is slated to complete, your undergraduate studies at a British University, do check it out 🎉
And if you are an academic who knows of any students who might be interested, do please share 😊
So if you are a student who has recently completed, or is slated to complete, your undergraduate studies at a British University, do check it out 🎉
And if you are an academic who knows of any students who might be interested, do please share 😊
An unrivaled opportunity to study in the ‘show me’ state:
Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27!
www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...
Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27!
www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...
Kinder-BrANCH MA Fellowship — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
www.branch.org.uk
October 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Deadline to apply is December 12, 2025
So if you are a student who has recently completed, or is slated to complete, your undergraduate studies at a British University, do check it out 🎉
And if you are an academic who knows of any students who might be interested, do please share 😊
So if you are a student who has recently completed, or is slated to complete, your undergraduate studies at a British University, do check it out 🎉
And if you are an academic who knows of any students who might be interested, do please share 😊
An unrivaled opportunity to study in the ‘show me’ state:
Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27!
www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...
Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27!
www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...
Kinder-BrANCH MA Fellowship — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
www.branch.org.uk
October 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
An unrivaled opportunity to study in the ‘show me’ state:
Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27!
www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...
Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27!
www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...
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📨 You are invited to our annual conference. BAAS 2026 will be held at the University of Glasgow in April 2026 🎉
Proposals are welcomed for papers, panels, & roundtables. Creative departures from the traditional panel format are encouraged. These should be shared by 28th November.
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Proposals are welcomed for papers, panels, & roundtables. Creative departures from the traditional panel format are encouraged. These should be shared by 28th November.
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BAAS Annual Conference - Glasgow 2026 - British Association for American Studies
The College of Arts & Humanities and Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies at the University of Glasgow are delighted to invite submissions for the 71st annual British Association for American…
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October 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
📨 You are invited to our annual conference. BAAS 2026 will be held at the University of Glasgow in April 2026 🎉
Proposals are welcomed for papers, panels, & roundtables. Creative departures from the traditional panel format are encouraged. These should be shared by 28th November.
buff.ly/xAdQJB8
Proposals are welcomed for papers, panels, & roundtables. Creative departures from the traditional panel format are encouraged. These should be shared by 28th November.
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Also, any Harriet Lane fans!?!
While James Buchanan might be considered one of the worst-ranked US Presidents of the 19th Century, his niece (described by Queen Victoria as “very ladylike & not at all American” 😂) sounds like one of the White House’s most interesting antebellum figures
While James Buchanan might be considered one of the worst-ranked US Presidents of the 19th Century, his niece (described by Queen Victoria as “very ladylike & not at all American” 😂) sounds like one of the White House’s most interesting antebellum figures
October 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Also, any Harriet Lane fans!?!
While James Buchanan might be considered one of the worst-ranked US Presidents of the 19th Century, his niece (described by Queen Victoria as “very ladylike & not at all American” 😂) sounds like one of the White House’s most interesting antebellum figures
While James Buchanan might be considered one of the worst-ranked US Presidents of the 19th Century, his niece (described by Queen Victoria as “very ladylike & not at all American” 😂) sounds like one of the White House’s most interesting antebellum figures
The US federal government may be shut down, but history doesn’t stop — passing through Harpers Ferry on the 166th anniversary of John Brown’s raid (2nd day)
October 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The US federal government may be shut down, but history doesn’t stop — passing through Harpers Ferry on the 166th anniversary of John Brown’s raid (2nd day)
Only three weeks left (3 Nov.) to submit for the Peter Parish Dissertation Prize of 2025
If you are or know of any UK-based undergraduates and taught postgraduates writing up on Nineteenth Century American history, this is a real good opportunity for recognition!
www.branch.org.uk/parishdisser...
If you are or know of any UK-based undergraduates and taught postgraduates writing up on Nineteenth Century American history, this is a real good opportunity for recognition!
www.branch.org.uk/parishdisser...
Parish Dissertation Prize — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
www.branch.org.uk
October 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Only three weeks left (3 Nov.) to submit for the Peter Parish Dissertation Prize of 2025
If you are or know of any UK-based undergraduates and taught postgraduates writing up on Nineteenth Century American history, this is a real good opportunity for recognition!
www.branch.org.uk/parishdisser...
If you are or know of any UK-based undergraduates and taught postgraduates writing up on Nineteenth Century American history, this is a real good opportunity for recognition!
www.branch.org.uk/parishdisser...
Two weeks until the “Beyond Academia” online panel!!!
Should be a good discussion, especially for PGRs and ECRs, whether you are thinking of alternative paths to a career beyond academia or not 😄
Should be a good discussion, especially for PGRs and ECRs, whether you are thinking of alternative paths to a career beyond academia or not 😄
October 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Two weeks until the “Beyond Academia” online panel!!!
Should be a good discussion, especially for PGRs and ECRs, whether you are thinking of alternative paths to a career beyond academia or not 😄
Should be a good discussion, especially for PGRs and ECRs, whether you are thinking of alternative paths to a career beyond academia or not 😄
A message from our friends @royalhistsoc.org about ECR prizes!
RHS First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.
We invite submissions for the Society's book and article prizes: for eligible titles published in 2025. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v
Submissions are by self-nomination by an author. Closing date: 15 December #Skystorians
We invite submissions for the Society's book and article prizes: for eligible titles published in 2025. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v
Submissions are by self-nomination by an author. Closing date: 15 December #Skystorians
Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS
The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...
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September 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
A message from our friends @royalhistsoc.org about ECR prizes!
At BrANCH this year in Cardiff, I was struck by so many rich presentations exploring migration and borders, both timely and timeless subjects!
For those interested, the Immigration and Ethnic History Society offers a range of prestigious prizes, a few with deadlines coming up
iehs.org/awards/
For those interested, the Immigration and Ethnic History Society offers a range of prestigious prizes, a few with deadlines coming up
iehs.org/awards/
Awards Overview
Visit the post for more.
iehs.org
September 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
At BrANCH this year in Cardiff, I was struck by so many rich presentations exploring migration and borders, both timely and timeless subjects!
For those interested, the Immigration and Ethnic History Society offers a range of prestigious prizes, a few with deadlines coming up
iehs.org/awards/
For those interested, the Immigration and Ethnic History Society offers a range of prestigious prizes, a few with deadlines coming up
iehs.org/awards/
Also, congrats to Sajidha Khatun, winner of the 2025 Harriet Tubman Essay Prize, as well as good news to us all as we can now read her award-winning essay, “Illustrating Belief: The Influence of Religion in Hammett Billings’ Work” online!
www.branch.org.uk/tubmanessayp...
www.branch.org.uk/tubmanessayp...
Harriet Tubman Essay Prize — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
www.branch.org.uk
September 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Also, congrats to Sajidha Khatun, winner of the 2025 Harriet Tubman Essay Prize, as well as good news to us all as we can now read her award-winning essay, “Illustrating Belief: The Influence of Religion in Hammett Billings’ Work” online!
www.branch.org.uk/tubmanessayp...
www.branch.org.uk/tubmanessayp...
Two tenure-track positions in Nineteenth Century American history (in the US) have come across my radar if anyone is interested!
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
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September 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Two tenure-track positions in Nineteenth Century American history (in the US) have come across my radar if anyone is interested!
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...