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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The symposium will take place on Friday, February 19, 2027 at the University of Warwick. Full details about submission requirements can be found on our website: hotcus.org.uk/events/winte...

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The CfP is now open for the 2027 HOTCUS Winter Symposium, Perspectives on the History of American Education.

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

And we’re off! HOTCUS 2026 is all systems go.

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Emily Brady @emilybrady.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

📚Call out for panellists for book talk at @officialbaas.bsky.social!📚 We are delighted to partner with @marenostrumgroup.bsky.social to gather Americanists from all areas to discuss how thinking about America's founding influences our research and teaching. We're looking for 3-5 contributors!

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Call for Applications: HOTCUS Annual Conference, PG/ECR Work-in-Progress workshop.

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Applications for the workshop must be received by midnight UK time on Monday 22 April 2026. Full details of application and eligibility requirements can be found here: hotcus.org.uk/events/annua...

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Up to 4 participants will be selected to share a piece of writing of up to 8,000 words for intensive discussion and feedback from Professor Bailey and other workshop participants. This piece of work can be a dissertation chapter or an article.

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The workshop will provide a supportive space for PhD students and early career scholars to present and receive feedback on chapters, articles, or detailed research proposals.

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

On the afternoon of Wednesday 1st July, a PG/ECR work-in-progress workshop will be held with the 2026 HOTCUS plenary speaker, Professor Beth Bailey.

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Call for Applications: HOTCUS Annual Conference, PG/ECR Work-in-Progress workshop.

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The day will open with a keynote lecture from Emma Stone MacKinnon (University It concludes with a roundtable reflecting on the Declaration’s place in contemporary history and historiography.

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The twentieth century offers a critical vantage point from which to trace how these founding ideals were invoked, reinterpreted, and resisted, revealing the ongoing struggle over the meaning of the American nation.

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The principles proclaimed within the Declaration of Independence in 1776, of liberty, equality, and self-government, remained central to American political culture, yet were repeatedly contested by social upheaval, political realignment, and global transformation.

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The 2026 HOTCUS Winter Symposium examines how nation, citizenship, and freedom were defined and redefined across the twentieth-century United States.

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

There is still time to register for the 2026 HOTCUS Winter Symposium, “The American Nation in the Twentieth Century: The Declaration of Independence at 250," at the University of Liverpool next Friday (February 27).

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

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.

Delegates from the HOTCUS, 2024 Annual Conference at Southampton University

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Full details about submission requirements, and a link to our 'panel finder' document can be found on our website: hotcus.org.uk/events/annua...

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

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.

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The application form, and other details can be found at hotcus.org.uk/hotcus-resea...

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HOTCUS Research Awards

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Successful applicants agree to submit a short report within two months of the research activity for publication on the HOTCUS website and to acknowledge the award in future publications. All applications must be submitted to membershipsecretary.hotcus@gmail.com by 1 March, 2026.

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Applications may be made for up to £500 for research expenses, including the cost of hiring a research assistant and/or research travel to take place within 12 months after the date of application. There are no residency restrictions and travel may be to, or within, any country.

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

HOTCUS welcomes applications from doctoral students and recent PhD graduates not yet in academic employment, as well as those on short-term (less than three years), fractional, or hourly paid contracts working on any area of twentieth-century United States history.

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Applications for the HOTCUS 2026 Research Awards are now open! (Read on for the small print)

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

To enter, authors or editors should email a PDF of their article to membershipsecretary.hotcus@gmail.com by 13 February 2026. Please do **specify** whether you are eligible for the Early Career Article Prize in your email (that way the committees don't have to guess).

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The Early Career Article Prize is open to doctoral (and pre-doctoral) students and recent PhD graduates not yet in academic employment, as well as those on short-term (less than three years), fractional, or hourly paid contracts.

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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.

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

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.

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

The HOTCUS Winter Symposium deadline has been extended until 10 January.

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

📣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

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Submit a single document with a 250-word abstract, and one page CV (panel proposals to include overview + individual abstracts and CVs) to events.hotcus@gmail.com by Wednesday 10 December 2025 (or, better still, earlier). Full details on our website: hotcus.org.uk

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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.

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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.

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

📣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

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

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 👇

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

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 💪📚

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2025 PGR/ECR Workshop — British American Nineteenth Century Historians

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

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

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We are looking for institutions to host our Winter Symposium and Annual Conference in 2027

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

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

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

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”

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

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”

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

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...

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

At the conference, we were pleased to announce that HOTCUS 2025 ECR article prize was awarded to@thomascryer.bsky.social 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.”

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

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.

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

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!

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Caleb Woodall @calebwoodall.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

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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Paula Murphy @paula-murphy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

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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Malcolm Craig @malcolmcraig.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

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.

The cover of the 19867 TTRPG The Price of Freedom, overlaid with a big yellow star containing the words 'The Price of Freedom is $19.95!', followed by the sub-title 'INVASION, APOCALYPSE, AND TABLETOP ROLEPLAYING GAMES IN RONALD REAGAN'S AMERICA'.

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Mark Slater @markjslater.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

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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Madison @mlyonhart.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

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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Caleb Woodall @calebwoodall.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Had a great time presenting my research at @hotcus.bsky.social’s Annual Conference in Lancaster this week!

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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

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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