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/
Applications for the HOTCUS 2026 Research Awards are now open! (Read on for the small print)
January 23, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Applications for the HOTCUS 2026 Research Awards are now open! (Read on for the small print)
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.
January 19, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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.
Three days left to submit a proposal for our exciting Winter Symposium, The American Nation in the Twentieth Century: The Declaration of Independence at 250.
The HOTCUS Winter Symposium deadline has been extended until 10 January.
📣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
January 7, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Three days left to submit a proposal for our exciting Winter Symposium, The American Nation in the Twentieth Century: The Declaration of Independence at 250.
The HOTCUS Winter Symposium deadline has been extended until 10 January.
📣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
December 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The HOTCUS Winter Symposium deadline has been extended until 10 January.
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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
📣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 👇
Microsoft Forms
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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 💪📚
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...
A small preview of the research we will be enjoying soon at Lancaster for the HOTCUS Annual Conference 2025! Check it out at hotcus.org.uk/events/annua...
May 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
A small preview of the research we will be enjoying soon at Lancaster for the HOTCUS Annual Conference 2025! Check it out at hotcus.org.uk/events/annua...
🚨Registration for Annual Conference is open!🚨
Taking place at the University of Lancaster from 18-20 June, we have now opened registration for the HOTCUS Annual Conference. Full details and links for registration and schedule are available on our website hotcus.org.uk/events/annua... Please share!
Taking place at the University of Lancaster from 18-20 June, we have now opened registration for the HOTCUS Annual Conference. Full details and links for registration and schedule are available on our website hotcus.org.uk/events/annua... Please share!
May 9, 2025 at 11:17 AM
🚨Registration for Annual Conference is open!🚨
Taking place at the University of Lancaster from 18-20 June, we have now opened registration for the HOTCUS Annual Conference. Full details and links for registration and schedule are available on our website hotcus.org.uk/events/annua... Please share!
Taking place at the University of Lancaster from 18-20 June, we have now opened registration for the HOTCUS Annual Conference. Full details and links for registration and schedule are available on our website hotcus.org.uk/events/annua... Please share!
🚨HOTCUS Committee Elections!🚨
It's that time of the year, when the HOTCUS Committee step down and we invite members to nominate themselves for one of the positions.The deadline for nominations is Friday May 23rd at 17:00 (BST), and all the information is on the website. hotcus.org.uk/about-hotcus...
It's that time of the year, when the HOTCUS Committee step down and we invite members to nominate themselves for one of the positions.The deadline for nominations is Friday May 23rd at 17:00 (BST), and all the information is on the website. hotcus.org.uk/about-hotcus...
Committee Elections
hotcus.org.uk
May 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
🚨HOTCUS Committee Elections!🚨
It's that time of the year, when the HOTCUS Committee step down and we invite members to nominate themselves for one of the positions.The deadline for nominations is Friday May 23rd at 17:00 (BST), and all the information is on the website. hotcus.org.uk/about-hotcus...
It's that time of the year, when the HOTCUS Committee step down and we invite members to nominate themselves for one of the positions.The deadline for nominations is Friday May 23rd at 17:00 (BST), and all the information is on the website. hotcus.org.uk/about-hotcus...
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Overly excited to get my hands on the new @hotcus.bsky.social mug merch! ☕️🗃️
April 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Overly excited to get my hands on the new @hotcus.bsky.social mug merch! ☕️🗃️
We have one new , and reminders for four others
1. IHR North American History Seminar Iwan Morgan Lecture Prize, DUE TODAY
Prize is awarded to a current or recently-completed doctoral student working on any aspect of North American History. For further information, check our website's front page.
1. IHR North American History Seminar Iwan Morgan Lecture Prize, DUE TODAY
Prize is awarded to a current or recently-completed doctoral student working on any aspect of North American History. For further information, check our website's front page.
March 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
We have one new , and reminders for four others
1. IHR North American History Seminar Iwan Morgan Lecture Prize, DUE TODAY
Prize is awarded to a current or recently-completed doctoral student working on any aspect of North American History. For further information, check our website's front page.
1. IHR North American History Seminar Iwan Morgan Lecture Prize, DUE TODAY
Prize is awarded to a current or recently-completed doctoral student working on any aspect of North American History. For further information, check our website's front page.