American History
Seminar or event series
Cambridge American History Seminar 2023-24
Seminars will be held on Mondays at 5:00pm in the William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, unless otherwise stated. Many of the seminars will be based on pre-circulated papers that will be made available a week prior to the seminar date.
All inquiries should be directed to Jonathan Goodwin, jmg216@cam.ac.uk.
To listen to our Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast please check our seminar podcast page, or search for it wherever you listen to your podcasts.
For Daniel Widener's paper click here (Raven password required).
Events
Jan
22
White Supremacy in American Politics: An Origins Story
Elizabeth R. Varon, Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History, University of Oxford, and Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History, University of Virginia
This paper will be pre-circulated
Commentator: Nicholas Guyatt, University of Cambridge
Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College
Jan
29
The Problem of Free Labor and the Origins of the Republican Party
Erik Mathisen, Senior Lecturer in US History, University of Kent
This paper will be pre-circulated
Commentator: Robert Lee, University of Cambridge
Feb
5
Pitt Professor Inaugural Lecture: Rethinking Monuments in an Age of Racial Reckonings in America
Erika Lee, Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions, University of Cambridge, and Bae Family Professor of History, Harvard University
Queen’s Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College
Feb
12
The Right to Bear Arms: Guns, Mass Shootings, and the Militia Movement
Manfred Berg, Curt Engelhorn Chair in American History, University of Heidelberg
This paper will be pre-circulated
Commentator: Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University
Feb
19
Properties of Empire: Contests over the Commons on Newfoundland’s French Shore, 1763- 1783
Arianne Sedef Urus, Assistant Professor of History and Fellow of Christ’s College, University of Cambridge
This paper will be pre-circulated
Commentator: Regina Grafe, University of Cambridge
Feb
26
America’s Authoritarian Turn: A Man, a Failed Political Economy, and a Flawed Democracy
Gary Gerstle, Paul Mellon Professor of American History Emeritus, and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge
The seminar with Susan-Mary Grant has been cancelled and will be re-scheduled for another time
Mar
4
Reclaiming Lost Histories of Asian America
Erika Lee, Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions, University of Cambridge, and Bae Family Professor of History, Harvard University
Mar
11
The Dream of a Common Language: Afterlives of U.S. Thirdworldism
Daniel Widener, Professor of History, University of California, San Diego
This paper will be pre-circulated
Commentator: Emma Mackinnon, University of Cambridge
Apr
29
Book Launch: Illiberal America: A History
Stephen Hahn, Professor of History, New York University
May
6
Liquid Capital: Alcohol and the Rise of Slavery in the British Atlantic, 1580-1737
Lila O’Leary Chambers, Research Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge
This paper will be pre-circulated
Commentator: TBA
May
20
Coloring Within the Lines: Picturing Black Men in Postwar Black Print Culture
Brenna W. Greer, Associate Professor of History, Wellesley College
This paper will be pre-circulated
Commentator: TBA
May
30
30-31 May: Conference to Honour Gary Gerstle upon his retirement as Paul Mellon Professor of American History
Organised by Nicholas Guyatt, University of Cambridge, and Andrew Preston, University of Cambridge
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