On January 8, 2022, SHAFR announced a number of awards at its luncheon at the American Historical Association conference in New Orleans. These awards recognize some of the best emerging scholars in our field. We are now happy to share those announcements with the rest of our community.
The Graduate Student Grants & Fellowships Committee–Sam Lebovic (chair), Kate Burlingham, and Hiroshi Kitamura–made the following awards to more than a dozen graduate students:
Appalling Ocean, Verdant Land: America and the Sea
ASANOR Conference 2022
American Studies Association of Norway
29 September – 1 October
Bodø, Norway
The 2022 ASANOR conference will be held at Nord University from September 29 to October 1 We welcome papers from a wide range of fields, including literature, history, political science, linguistics, and cultural studies, that explore the role of the sea in the American experience
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NARA must take action to retrieve Peter Navarro’s White House records |
Everyone,
Those of you who monitor proposed records schedules in the Federal Register may be interested in a change NARA is piloting in response to a request from schedule commenters. We made this change in the hope of making it easier to see which schedules are included in a Federal Register notice.
CONFERENCE COORDINATOR
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
Across the twentieth century, ideas about the global order have sparked a furious debate amongst scholars seeking to understand its power dynamics, structures, institutions, organisation and systems. The majority of the discussion has been centred around the role of states as critical to shaping the workings of the system of international relations and the horizon of peace and security. There has however been an inherent tendency to uphold conventional turning points such as the two World Wars, the Cold War and the North-South divide. We aim to go beyond these traditional understandings and rather focus on the institutions, nations, and often forgotten actors who were full participants alongside Great Powers in shaping the norms, systems and practices that make up global order. At the centre of our enquiry are the role of traditionally disenfranchised or marginalised actors of the Global South, including states, nations, transnational groups, regional organisations, trade union representatives, transnational corporations, activists, agitators and a host of other non-state actors. We also seek to probe the ways in which the different levels of global order interacted in organisations, especially the League of Nations and the United Nations and their associated agencies and systems. There has been a surge of recent scholarship dealing with the legacies and functions of these institutions of international order, and we wish to expand the actors, events, and narratives that play featured roles in the history of 20th century international institutional and organisational transformation.
Please join us for a Washington History Seminar Panel with Vladislav Zubok on Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union.
More Department of State Records Now Available Online: Diplomatic Instructions, 1785-1906 & Consular Instructions, 1801-1834
Today’s post was written by David Langbart, archivist in Textual Reference at the National Archives at College Park, MD.
The National Archives is pleased to announce that more records of the Department of State have been digitized and are now available online through the National Archives Catalog. This is the fourth in a series of occasional posts. It is the final post describing the records that constitute the “central files” of the Department for the period from 1789 to 1906. The first post described the microfilm digitization project and the first foreign affairs records made available through it.
A Letter from the Archivist on reopening research rooms at the National Archives.
John J. Sbrega, "An Intellectual Dilemma and Tragedy: Social Darwinism, Pragmatism, and the Industrialization of the American Dream During the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century," The Journal of American Culture, Volume 44:2 (June 2021), 130-147.
Please join us for a Washington History Seminar Panel with Mary E. Sarotte on Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate.
The National Archives has announced its facility reopening plan:
Please join us for a Washington History Seminar Panel with Benjamin Young on Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World.
Please join us for a Washington History Seminar Panel with Benjamin Young on Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World.
Department of State Records Now Available Online: Despatches from Special Agents, Notes to Foreign Missions, and Notes from Foreign Consuls, 1789-1906
Today’s post was written by David Langbart, archivist in Textual Reference at the National Archives at College Park, MD.
The National Archives is pleased to announce that more records of the Department of State have been digitized and are now available online through the National Archives Catalog. This is the third in a series of occasional posts. The first post described the microfilm digitization project and the first foreign affairs records made available through it. The second post is about consular despatches.
PRESENTS
Greg Tomlin
History On-Line Presents:
Professor Mark Kramer
The Department of History – Faculté des arts et des sciences de l’Université de Montréal is seeking to appoint a tenure-track assistant professor in History of the United States.
Please join us for a Washington History Seminar Panel with Mark Bradley and Mary Dudziak on Making the Forever War: Marilyn B. Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism.
