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

📚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!

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

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

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).

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

HOTCUS@hotcus.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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

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

HOTCUS@hotcus.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📣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

📣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

📣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

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 👇

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 💪📚

2025 PGR/ECR Workshop — British American Nineteenth Century Historians

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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!

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.”

Absolutely delighted to receive this award that will support my research trip to New York! Massive thanks to @hotcus.bsky.social 🙌🏼

American Studies @ Northumbria@nuamstudies.bsky.social · last yr.

Big day for awards! Congratulations to our PhD candidate, Paula Murphy (@paula-murphy.bsky.social) who has won a 2025 Doctoral and EC Research Award from @hotcus.bsky.social to support work in NYC for her project, ‘Whatever Happened to Unity? Co-Curation and Resistance in Hip Hop’s First Decade.'

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.

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!

I had an amazing time presenting alongside these brilliant academics on gender and modern American conservatism at the HOTCUS annual conference! @hotcus.bsky.social

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

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/...

Time for my paper at the @hotcus.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference! 🇺🇸🗃️

We are here for the last day of #HOTCUS2025, and still thinking through Professor Andrew Preston's thoughtful keynote of the emergence of national security.

Time for Day 2 of the @hotcus.bsky.social 2025 conference. Lots of exciting panels and sessions to come today 🇺🇸

We are looking forward to kicking things off after lunch for #HOTCUS2025 at Lancaster with our PG/ECR workshop led by Professor Andrew Preston! All the details at hotcus.org.uk/events/annua...

A small preview of the research we will be enjoying soon at Lancaster for the HOTCUS Annual Conference 2025! Check it out at hotcus.org.uk/events/annua...

Malcolm Craig@malcolmcraig.bsky.social · last yr.

Been on social media hiatus because of marking/writing. However, my paper on The Price of Freedom RPG for the @hotcus.bsky.social 2025 conference is done! Deliberately cheesy slides included!

🚨Registration for Annual Conference is open!🚨 Taking place at the University of Lancaster from 18-20 June, we have now opened registration for the HOTCUS Annual Conference. Full details and links for registration and schedule are available on our website hotcus.org.uk/events/annua... Please share!

🚨HOTCUS Committee Elections!🚨 It's that time of the year, when the HOTCUS Committee step down and we invite members to nominate themselves for one of the positions.The deadline for nominations is Friday May 23rd at 17:00 (BST), and all the information is on the website. hotcus.org.uk/about-hotcus...

Committee Elections

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