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.
Events
Oct
9
Traversée: Gender, Commodification, and the Long Middle Passage
Jessica Marie Johnson, Associate Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
This paper will be pre-circulated
Commentator: Arianne Sedef Urus, University of Cambridge
Oct
16
Neutrality by Absence: The Selective Repatriation of Americans at the Beginning of the First World War
Lewis Defrates, Assistant Professor in American History, and Research Associate, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge
This paper will be pre-circulated
Commentator: Tom Smith, University of Cambridge
Oct
23
Hall’s Sympathies: Loss, Law, and the Limits of Feeling in Nineteenth Century America
Joanna Cohen, Reader in American History, Queen Mary University
This paper will be pre-circulated
Commentator: Julia Guarneri, University of Cambridge
Oct
30
Relational Memories: Latinx Art in New York City Since the 1970s
Stephanie Lewthwaite, Associate Professor in American History, University of Nottingham
Nov
6
The Bridge in Chicago: The New Deal and National Security
Andrew Preston, Professor of American History, and Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge
Nov
13
Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
Jefferson Cowie, James G. Stahlman Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
Nov
20
Escaping the Periphery: Railroad Regulation as American Industrial Policy
Noam Maggor, Senior Lecturer in American History, Queen Mary University and Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Paris
This paper will be pre-circulated
Commentator: Robert Lee, University of Cambridge
Nov
27
Political Violence with the State: An American Accommodation
Desmond King, Andrew Mellon Professor of American Government and Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Old Library, Sidney Sussex College
Jan
22
In Search of Clara Barton: The Politics of Humanitarianism in the Reconstruction Era
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
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
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
Feb
12
Gun Culture, Mass Shootings, and the Militia Movement: How the Right to Bear Arms Has Driven Polarization in the United States
Manfred Berg, Curt Engelhorn Chair in American History, University of Heidelberg
This paper will be pre-circulated
Feb
19
Common Shores: Property and Resource Access in the Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland Cod Fisheries
Arianne Sedef Urus, Assistant Professor of History and Fellow of Christ’s College, University of Cambridge
This paper will be pre-circulated
Feb
26
The Band Will Play and I'll be There to Hear It': Assumptions of Immortality in the US Civil War
Susan-Mary Grant, Professor of American History, University of Newcastle
This paper will be pre-circulated
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, Associate Professor of History, University of California, San Diego
This paper will be pre-circulated
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
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
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
Details to Come
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At a glance
Term
Michaelmas Term
When
Mondays at 5:00pm
Where
William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, unless otherwise indicated.
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