• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Elizabeth Rees , Barney Hagan , Faculty Advisor: Mandy Izadi
• Timing: Mondays, 15:00 (BST) unless otherwise stated
• Organising department: Rothermere American Institute

Monday 9 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - A Penchant for Personal Diplomacy: Callaghan, Ford, and Carter
  Todd Carter (University College)

Monday 16 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Work Habits and Practices (Study Skills Session)
  TBA

Monday 23 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Better Surroundings: Child-savers, delinquency, and spaces for children in Chicago, 1890- 1920
  Nonie Kubie (St Cross)

Monday 30 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - From Rumford to Riots: The Rising of Reagan, 1963-66
  Dominic Barker (Lady Margaret Hall)

Monday 6 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - `Some Pretty Amazing Political Clout': The Surprising Survival of Volunteers in Service to America
  Mitchell Robertson (University College)

Monday 13 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - `Women Strategising in the '90s': Women, AIDS, and a New Generation of Feminism in 1990s New York
  Emma Day (Pembroke)

Monday 20 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - National 'Credit': U.S. Foreign Relations and the national debt after the Civil War, 1865- 1869
  Chris Nitschke (Keble)

Monday 27 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Changing the Game: Richard Nixon and the Politicisation of American Football
  Rivers Gambrell (Kellogg)

Monday 15 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - John Gallison’s Journals: Self-Portrait of a Third-Generation Federalist in Boston
  Stephen Symchych (St. Anthony’s )

Monday 22 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Skills Session: The Historical Interpretation of Visual Imagery
  Mara Keire (Rothermere American Institute )

Monday 29 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - The Religious System of Northeastern North America
  Daniel Green (Wadham )

Monday 5 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Skills Session: ‘An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe’
  Benjamin Madley (University of California, Los Angeles )

Monday 12 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Literature Review: Congress and the States, 1781-1800
  Grace Mallon (University College)

Monday 19 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - 'It troubles me that he played center': Gerald Ford, Football, and Image Politics in the Shadow of Watergate
  Rivers Gambrell (Kellogg)

Monday 5 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - "Cooking up financial schemes: selling the United States, 1870-73".
  Chris Nitschke (Keble)

Monday 23 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - “Howie Phillips and his wrecking crew”: The conservatives (try to) take the bureaucracy
  Mitchell Robertson (University College)

Monday 30 April 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Skills Session: Book Proposals
  Various Speakers

Monday 7 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Jimmy Carter and the Failed US-China Secret Talks on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
  Sheng Peng (St. Antony’s )

Monday 14 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Internal colonisation and the moveable frontier: Louisiana and New Russia in the context of American and Russian continental expansion”
  Olivia Durand (Pembroke)

Monday 21 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Pete Millwood (Rothermere American Institute)

Monday 4 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Literature Review: “A Lifted Voice” - Harry T. Burleigh in Jim Crow New York.”
  Daniel Rowe (Lincoln)

Monday 11 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Framing the Civil Rights Story: Prime-Time Television News Documentaries and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1954-1965
  Sage Goodwin (University College)

Monday 22 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Graduate Skills Workshop: Tips and Tricks for Archival Research in the US
  Various Speakers

Monday 29 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Rivers Gambrell (Kellogg College)

Monday 5 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Graduate Skills Workshop: Either a session dedicated to 'Journal Articles' or the broader theme of 'beginnings and endings in your writing'.
  Various Speakers

Monday 12 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Oenonie Kubie (Brasenose College)

Monday 19 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'Channing, Story and Political Identity: Early 19th Century'
  Stephen Symchych (St Antony's College)

Monday 26 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'Governing the States in the New Nation, 1789-1801'
  Grace Mallon (University College)

Monday 6 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Smart publishing and tenure
  Pekka Hämäläinen (St Catherine's)

Monday 20 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Skills Session: Fellowship and grant applications
  TBA

Monday 27 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - The Watergate playbook: what to make of Richard Nixon’s sports obsession (1972-4)
  Rivers Gambrell (Kellogg)

Monday 3 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Sage Goodwin (University College )

Monday 10 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Book proposals
  Daniel Rowe (Lincoln)

Monday 17 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Voluntary apartheid in fast-growing settler cities: New Orleans and Odessa (1803-1856)
  Olivia Durand (Pembroke)

Monday 26 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Rust Underneath: How the Missouri Supreme Court’s turn Towards Comity and Away from Personhood During the Golden Age of Freedom Suits Paved the Way for Dread Scott
  Jacob Brandler

Monday 3 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Social Media Panel
  Daniel Rowe, Adam Smith

Monday 10 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - "Till Now We Stand at Last": Transatlantic African American Networks around Black Art Music, 1893 to 1912
  Lynne Foote

Monday 17 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - A War with England is Like a Civil War.' Arbitration and the Monroe Doctrine in the 1895 Venezuela Dispute
  Neil Suchak

Monday 24 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Academic Reviews Panel
  Mandy Izadi, Adam Smith, Sonia Tycko

Monday 31 May 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Productive Second Year Panel
  Daniel Rowe, Mitchell Robertson, Rivers Gambrell, Chris Nitschke

Monday 7 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Between Scylla and Charybdis: Religion and the Meaning of Union in the Border States, 1861-1865
  Gwion Jones