HOTCUS
@hotcus.bsky.social
Historians of the Twentieth Century U.S. (HOTCUS) promotes scholarship in 20th century American history through conferences and awards. Become a member! - https://hotcus.org.uk/
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📣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
University of Liverpool, 27 February 2026
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
📣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
University of Liverpool, 27 February 2026
Submit a single document with a 250-word abstract, and one page CV (panel proposals to include overview + individual abstracts and CVs) to [email protected]
by Wednesday 10 December 2025 (or, better still, earlier).
Full details on our website: hotcus.org.uk
by Wednesday 10 December 2025 (or, better still, earlier).
Full details on our website: hotcus.org.uk
The American Nation in the Twentieth Century: The Declaration of Independence at 250, will be held at the University of Liverpool on 27 February 2026.
hotcus.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Submit a single document with a 250-word abstract, and one page CV (panel proposals to include overview + individual abstracts and CVs) to [email protected]
by Wednesday 10 December 2025 (or, better still, earlier).
Full details on our website: hotcus.org.uk
by Wednesday 10 December 2025 (or, better still, earlier).
Full details on our website: hotcus.org.uk
We invite individual paper and panels that consider how Americans have drawn upon the Declaration of Independence to articulate new understandings of belonging, sovereignty, and democracy, and how these debates have shaped the historical imagination in or about the twentieth-century United States.
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
We invite individual paper and panels that consider how Americans have drawn upon the Declaration of Independence to articulate new understandings of belonging, sovereignty, and democracy, and how these debates have shaped the historical imagination in or about the twentieth-century United States.
📣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
University of Liverpool, 27 February 2026
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
📣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
University of Liverpool, 27 February 2026
The 2025–2026 HOTCUS Mentoring Scheme is now open!
If you work in 20th C US history and would like to have an academic mentor — or serve as one — please register your interest by 3 November 2025.
More info and registration below 👇
If you work in 20th C US history and would like to have an academic mentor — or serve as one — please register your interest by 3 November 2025.
More info and registration below 👇
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October 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The 2025–2026 HOTCUS Mentoring Scheme is now open!
If you work in 20th C US history and would like to have an academic mentor — or serve as one — please register your interest by 3 November 2025.
More info and registration below 👇
If you work in 20th C US history and would like to have an academic mentor — or serve as one — please register your interest by 3 November 2025.
More info and registration below 👇
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Calling all PGRs/ECRs 📣
In collaboration with @hotcus.bsky.social we are hosting a workshop at the Rothermere Americation Institute this November!
Participants can meet other junior scholars, get feedback on works-in-progress, and take part in academic publishing and ‘viva survivor’ sessions 💪📚
In collaboration with @hotcus.bsky.social we are hosting a workshop at the Rothermere Americation Institute this November!
Participants can meet other junior scholars, get feedback on works-in-progress, and take part in academic publishing and ‘viva survivor’ sessions 💪📚
2025 PGR/ECR Workshop — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
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July 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Calling all PGRs/ECRs 📣
In collaboration with @hotcus.bsky.social we are hosting a workshop at the Rothermere Americation Institute this November!
Participants can meet other junior scholars, get feedback on works-in-progress, and take part in academic publishing and ‘viva survivor’ sessions 💪📚
In collaboration with @hotcus.bsky.social we are hosting a workshop at the Rothermere Americation Institute this November!
Participants can meet other junior scholars, get feedback on works-in-progress, and take part in academic publishing and ‘viva survivor’ sessions 💪📚
Things usually quiet down over the summer, but we are looking to welcome members for our future events in 2026, all of which you can see advertised on our website or here on Bluesky as they come up. hotcus.org.uk
We are looking for institutions to host our Winter Symposium and Annual Conference in 2027
hotcus.org.uk
July 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Things usually quiet down over the summer, but we are looking to welcome members for our future events in 2026, all of which you can see advertised on our website or here on Bluesky as they come up. hotcus.org.uk
Lastly HOTCUS members Fabian Hilfrich, @calebwoodall.bsky.social and Emma Long delivered their well-received panel Revisiting Race, Gender, and Religion in Wars during the Long 20th Century at @shafrhistorians.bsky.social's conference chaired by our membership secretary @lizingleson.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Lastly HOTCUS members Fabian Hilfrich, @calebwoodall.bsky.social and Emma Long delivered their well-received panel Revisiting Race, Gender, and Religion in Wars during the Long 20th Century at @shafrhistorians.bsky.social's conference chaired by our membership secretary @lizingleson.bsky.social
2. @lucyekelly.bsky.social , working on ““I want to fight the fight. I want my rightful place”: Queer Worldmaking in the American South, 1970-2000”
3. @paula-murphy.bsky.social , working on “‘Whatever Happened to Unity?’ Co-Curation and Resistance in Hip-Hop’s First Decade”
3. @paula-murphy.bsky.social , working on “‘Whatever Happened to Unity?’ Co-Curation and Resistance in Hip-Hop’s First Decade”
July 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
2. @lucyekelly.bsky.social , working on ““I want to fight the fight. I want my rightful place”: Queer Worldmaking in the American South, 1970-2000”
3. @paula-murphy.bsky.social , working on “‘Whatever Happened to Unity?’ Co-Curation and Resistance in Hip-Hop’s First Decade”
3. @paula-murphy.bsky.social , working on “‘Whatever Happened to Unity?’ Co-Curation and Resistance in Hip-Hop’s First Decade”
HOTCUS also announced the winners of the HOTCUS Research Awards to the following 3 recipients:
1. Sophie Stanford, working on “Restorative Justice or Cold War Manipulation?: Situating Redress for Japanese Internment Within the Context of International Geopolitics During the Reagan Administration”
1. Sophie Stanford, working on “Restorative Justice or Cold War Manipulation?: Situating Redress for Japanese Internment Within the Context of International Geopolitics During the Reagan Administration”
July 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
HOTCUS also announced the winners of the HOTCUS Research Awards to the following 3 recipients:
1. Sophie Stanford, working on “Restorative Justice or Cold War Manipulation?: Situating Redress for Japanese Internment Within the Context of International Geopolitics During the Reagan Administration”
1. Sophie Stanford, working on “Restorative Justice or Cold War Manipulation?: Situating Redress for Japanese Internment Within the Context of International Geopolitics During the Reagan Administration”
You can read Tom's article in the Journal of American Studies, and can consult the Article Prize committee's commendation on the HOTCUS website at hotcus.org.uk/awards/artic...
July 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
You can read Tom's article in the Journal of American Studies, and can consult the Article Prize committee's commendation on the HOTCUS website at hotcus.org.uk/awards/artic...
At the conference, we were pleased to announce that HOTCUS 2025 ECR article prize was awarded [email protected] for his article “‘A False Picture of Negro Progress’: John Hope Franklin, Racial Liberalism, and the Political (Mis)uses of Black History during the 1963 Emancipation Centennial.”
July 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
At the conference, we were pleased to announce that HOTCUS 2025 ECR article prize was awarded [email protected] for his article “‘A False Picture of Negro Progress’: John Hope Franklin, Racial Liberalism, and the Political (Mis)uses of Black History during the 1963 Emancipation Centennial.”
Professor Andrew Preston's insightful keynote on his new book Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security was welcomed, as were his asides (and primary documents) into the founding of HOTCUS way back in 2007.
July 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Professor Andrew Preston's insightful keynote on his new book Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security was welcomed, as were his asides (and primary documents) into the founding of HOTCUS way back in 2007.
It's been an eventful month for us, so here's some news about what we have been up to.
First, our annual conference gathered scholars from across Europe and the Americas to discuss 20th century US history. A special thanks goes to our Events Sec Megan Hunt for her tireless efforts to HOTCUS!
First, our annual conference gathered scholars from across Europe and the Americas to discuss 20th century US history. A special thanks goes to our Events Sec Megan Hunt for her tireless efforts to HOTCUS!
July 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
It's been an eventful month for us, so here's some news about what we have been up to.
First, our annual conference gathered scholars from across Europe and the Americas to discuss 20th century US history. A special thanks goes to our Events Sec Megan Hunt for her tireless efforts to HOTCUS!
First, our annual conference gathered scholars from across Europe and the Americas to discuss 20th century US history. A special thanks goes to our Events Sec Megan Hunt for her tireless efforts to HOTCUS!
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First time presenting at @shafrhistorians.bsky.social this week. Very happy to have presented with such brilliant historians on the @hotcus.bsky.social panel: “Revisiting Race, Gender, and Religion in Wars during the Long Twentieth Century.”
June 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
First time presenting at @shafrhistorians.bsky.social this week. Very happy to have presented with such brilliant historians on the @hotcus.bsky.social panel: “Revisiting Race, Gender, and Religion in Wars during the Long Twentieth Century.”
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Absolutely delighted to receive this award that will support my research trip to New York! Massive thanks to @hotcus.bsky.social 🙌🏼
Big day for awards! Congratulations to our PhD candidate, Paula Murphy (@paula-murphy.bsky.social) who has won a 2025 Doctoral and EC Research Award from @hotcus.bsky.social to support work in NYC for her project, ‘Whatever Happened to Unity? Co-Curation and Resistance in Hip Hop’s First Decade.'
June 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Absolutely delighted to receive this award that will support my research trip to New York! Massive thanks to @hotcus.bsky.social 🙌🏼
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1) Last week was the 2025 @hotcus.bsky.social conference, and a great time was had by all! I presented a narrow slice of my ongoing research into the Cold War and RPGs, specifically and narrowly focusing on The Price of Freedom (1986). I was slightly taken aback by how positively it was received.
June 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
1) Last week was the 2025 @hotcus.bsky.social conference, and a great time was had by all! I presented a narrow slice of my ongoing research into the Cold War and RPGs, specifically and narrowly focusing on The Price of Freedom (1986). I was slightly taken aback by how positively it was received.
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excellent few days at the @hotcus.bsky.social conference in lancaster! got some excellent feedback on my chapter at the pgr/ecr workshop with andrew preston, met a series of very lovely people, and, most importantly, got this sweet mug. had a blast at my first hotcus and will be back!
June 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
excellent few days at the @hotcus.bsky.social conference in lancaster! got some excellent feedback on my chapter at the pgr/ecr workshop with andrew preston, met a series of very lovely people, and, most importantly, got this sweet mug. had a blast at my first hotcus and will be back!
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I had an amazing time presenting alongside these brilliant academics on gender and modern American conservatism at the HOTCUS annual conference! @hotcus.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I had an amazing time presenting alongside these brilliant academics on gender and modern American conservatism at the HOTCUS annual conference! @hotcus.bsky.social
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Had a great time presenting my research at @hotcus.bsky.social’s Annual Conference in Lancaster this week!
June 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Had a great time presenting my research at @hotcus.bsky.social’s Annual Conference in Lancaster this week!
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Coming up next week - June 26-28, 2025, the annual conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (#SHAFR) @shafrhistorians.bsky.social in Arlington, VA, check out this amazing program, honored to a part @oah.org @h-diplo.bsky.social 🗃️ www.shafr.org/assets/docs/...
June 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Coming up next week - June 26-28, 2025, the annual conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (#SHAFR) @shafrhistorians.bsky.social in Arlington, VA, check out this amazing program, honored to a part @oah.org @h-diplo.bsky.social 🗃️ www.shafr.org/assets/docs/...
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Time for my paper at the @hotcus.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference! 🇺🇸🗃️
June 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Time for my paper at the @hotcus.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference! 🇺🇸🗃️
We are here for the last day of #HOTCUS2025, and still thinking through Professor Andrew Preston's thoughtful keynote of the emergence of national security.
June 20, 2025 at 8:39 AM
We are here for the last day of #HOTCUS2025, and still thinking through Professor Andrew Preston's thoughtful keynote of the emergence of national security.
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Time for Day 2 of the @hotcus.bsky.social 2025 conference. Lots of exciting panels and sessions to come today 🇺🇸
June 19, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Time for Day 2 of the @hotcus.bsky.social 2025 conference. Lots of exciting panels and sessions to come today 🇺🇸
We are looking forward to kicking things off after lunch for #HOTCUS2025 at Lancaster with our PG/ECR workshop led by Professor Andrew Preston! All the details at hotcus.org.uk/events/annua...
2025 Annual Conference
hotcus.org.uk
June 18, 2025 at 9:26 AM
We are looking forward to kicking things off after lunch for #HOTCUS2025 at Lancaster with our PG/ECR workshop led by Professor Andrew Preston! All the details at hotcus.org.uk/events/annua...