1/ Brilliant service by North Shields Heritology Project to mark grave of #NorthShields #CivilWar vet Robt Renoldson at NS Baptist Church and Preston Cemetery. He served in 7th #NewHampshire Inf b4 returning to England Died #OTD 1916. American Studies @ Northumbria own Brian Ward unveiling Veterans Affairs marker

Happy July 4th to all our followers, but particularly the American ones obviously!

International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games! 🕹️🎮👾 #SaveTheDate 9-11 April 2025 NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal Featuring keynote speakers Dr Barbara Braid , Dom Ford and @Prof_Heike_Paul ✨ We welcome proposals! Learn more: vam2025.fcsh.unl.pt

American Studies @ Northumbria and Northumbria Uni's own @E_Devienne giving the best beach reads on beaches in the The Wall Street Journal wsj.com/arts-culture/b… #SummerReads

Exciting news! We are offering two Phd Scholarships at Canterbury Christ Church University: one on the innovative topic of Magical Tourism and second on World Heritage Sites. Please circulate these fantastic opportunities to your students and apply! canterbury.ac.uk/study-here/fee…

Congratulations, Lewis!

For those in need of some light reading: Dr Joe Street on "one of the most important films for understanding work under neoliberalism" and Silicon Valley, the 2013 Vince Vaughn/Owen Wilson vehicle, "The Internship." illiberalism.org/the-bleak-post…

Nice to have this handsome book arrive in the post today from Routledge Books! Delighted to have written the chapter on Irish Americans in #CivilWar and #Reconstruction. Kudos to Cian T. McMahon and Kathleen P. Costello Sullivan for conceiving the idea and pulling it all together.

Enjoyed this new BBC Radio 4 documentary on the life and legacy of socialist politician and presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs. Listen below. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

"In a very close race, everything can count" says #US #politics expert Patrick Andelic of Northumbria Uni following the #VicePresidentialDebate between #JDVance and #TimWalz, in which the pair sparred over topics such as #abortion and #immigration. #GlobelynxConnects #GlobelynxVOD

"They played God with that landscape." Our own @E_Devienne features in this BBC Future article on LA's "fake" beaches. bbc.com/future/article…

Remembering our remarkable colleague, Dr Laura Fish. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

It's publication day for our colleague Joe Street's brand new history of the Black Panther Party, "Black Revolutionaries"! Get your copy now (in hardback, paperback, or ebook) from @UGAPress! ugapress.org/book/978082036…

And while you're on the @UGAPress website, why not pick up a copy of Dr Megan Hunt's "Southern By the Grace of God," also published today! ugapress.org/book/978082036…

Our annual conference CfP is open for submissions! This year we offer BOTH a postgrad workshop (Feb 28) & conference the next day (March 1) hosted The University of Edinburgh. See details at buff.ly/3r0Da1V & attached! Submit by January 10! #AmericanStudies #Conference #Callforpapers

📣#Vacancy | Senior Fellow in #AmericanForeignPolicy & #InternationalSecurity IBEI developed a program focused on the #ForeignPolicy of the #UnitedStates & Intl. security, with the support of FundacioIEN 🔎t.ly/HQIWC ⌛️Deadline for applications: Nov 30, 2024

We’re recruiting a new Co-Editor and a new Book Reviews Editor! If you’d like to join our friendly team of PG and ECA editors, send in your application by 5pm on Tuesday 12 November. Application form: docs.google.com/document/d/1W4… We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

And you can get a copy of Jack Hodgson's (Dr Jack Hodgson) "Young Reds in the Big Apple," on the lolly-chewing Bolshevik kids who wrangled with both the Klan and NYC authorities from Fordham Press now! fordhampress.com/9781531508128/…

Hard tack, the stalwart food of Civil War Bluejackets and soldiers, which I made for our American Studies @ Northumbria NorthEnglishes Northumbria History 'Village Fete' bake/build/draw your research theme. My stern preparation warning meant no chipped teeth (that I know of!).

On 11 Dec, Politics and American Studies/History colleagues are holding a roundtable discussing the results of the US election: What Happened (Again)?: A Roundtable on the Risks of a Second Trump Presidency. Full details below. All are welcome!