Framing America: A Social History of American Art — 5th Edition
by Frances K. Pohl

🎨 See history through art.
Framing America — 5th Ed.
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#ArtHistoryStudents #AmericanStudies #CreativeLearning

After Kamala Harris’s defeat by Donald Trump in the 2024 election, many people concerned with equality in the United States have been asking: “What now?”

Rachel Marie Davis examines feminism in Trump’s second term. She looks at how feminists responded to Trump over the past decade, which strategies failed to connect with the wider public, and what progressive leaders can learn from these experiences 👇

https://hcagrads.hypotheses.org/6683

#hypoverse #Trump #Feminism #AmericanStudies

Feminist Politics and Resistance in the Trump 2.0 Era

by Rachel Marie Davis Introduction Following the 2024 electoral loss of Kamala Harris to Donald Trump, the question “so, what...

HCA Graduate Blog

#CallforPapers #CfP by the Obama Institute Mainz for a student #conference

topic: “‘We Hold These Truths’? 250 Years Later
deadline: February 28, 2026
conference dates: June 19- 20, 2026.

#DeclarationOfIndependence #America250 #AmericanStudies #USA250

link for details: http://www.obama-institute.com/call-for-papers-we-hold-these-truths-250-years-later/

Call for Papers – “We Hold These Truths”? 250 Years Later | Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies

"The United States of Medievalism" is a #CulturalStudies essay collection edited by Tison Pugh & Susan Aronstein traces the (visual) influence of the European #MiddleAges on today's USA - in #themeparks #gardens #architecture - on highways, in Las Vegas & during Mardi Gras

#AmericanStudies

#MerryChristmas 🎁
Will there be any books under your tree this year?
If so, why not explore the tradition of "The Literary Gift in Early America" with David Faflik's interdisciplinary study on gifting books, #giftbooks & beyond!

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=189304355X

#AmericanStudies #AmericanLiterature

4 doctoral scholarships at the Graduate School of the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at @freieuniversitaet

Deadline: 31 Jan, 2026

https://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/en/graduateschool/news/2025-11-14_CfA-2025.html

#AmericanStudies #CanadianStudies #CulturalStudies #AmericanLiterature #CanadianLiterature #scholarship

4 doctoral scholarships (DAAD and Freie U Berlin)

"Radical Play" by Rob Goldberg traces the revolution in the 1960s and 70s toystore, a time in #AmericanHistory when social movements (#CivilRights M. & #BlackPanther #feminism & anti-Vietnam war movement) were mirrored in #toys

#MaterialCulture #CulturalStudies #AmericanStudies #ChildhoodStudies

This new 2025 monograph by Grant Matthew Jenkins examines the avant-garde stance and methods of Black American poets in #poetry since 1980 with a focus on their portrayal of the Other

#BlackWriters #BlackStudies #AmericanStudies #LiteraryStudies #PostcolonicalStudies

"Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering in Children’s and Young Adult Literature" ist das Thema einer Online-Konferenz, zu der die #AmericanStudies am Englischen Seminar @uni-muenster.de vom 12. bis 14. November einladen. Interessierte können sich anmelden, Infos: uni.ms/c692l #LitWiss

Can you believe that #Snoopy, #CharlieBrown & the other Peanuts are 75 years old #OTD ? The 1st ever #Peanuts strip was published 2 Oct, 1950!
You can find all volumes of the complete Peanuts comic strips as well as several secondary sources in our collection! 🥜

#ComicsStudies #AmericanStudies