HOTCUS
Historians of the Twentieth Century U.S. (HOTCUS) promotes scholarship in 20th century American history through conferences and awards. Become a member! - hotcus.org.uk
- 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.
- Full details about submission requirements, and a link to our 'panel finder' document can be found on our website: hotcus.org.uk/events/annua...
- Applications for the HOTCUS 2026 Research Awards are now open! (Read on for the small print)
- HOTCUS welcomes applications from doctoral students and recent PhD graduates not yet in academic employment, as well as those on short-term (less than three years), fractional, or hourly paid contracts working on any area of twentieth-century United States history.
- Applications may be made for up to £500 for research expenses, including the cost of hiring a research assistant and/or research travel to take place within 12 months after the date of application. There are no residency restrictions and travel may be to, or within, any country.
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View full threadThe application form, and other details can be found at hotcus.org.uk/hotcus-resea...
- 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.
- The Early Career Article Prize is open to doctoral (and pre-doctoral) students and recent PhD graduates not yet in academic employment, as well as those on short-term (less than three years), fractional, or hourly paid contracts.
- To enter, authors or editors should email a PDF of their article to membershipsecretary.hotcus@gmail.com by 13 February 2026. Please do **specify** whether you are eligible for the Early Career Article Prize in your email (that way the committees don't have to guess).
- 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.
- The HOTCUS Winter Symposium deadline has been extended until 10 January.
- 📣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
- We invite individual paper and panels that consider how Americans have drawn upon the Declaration of Independence to articulate new understandings of belonging, sovereignty, and democracy, and how these debates have shaped the historical imagination in or about the twentieth-century United States.
- Submit a single document with a 250-word abstract, and one page CV (panel proposals to include overview + individual abstracts and CVs) to events.hotcus@gmail.com by Wednesday 10 December 2025 (or, better still, earlier). Full details on our website: hotcus.org.uk
- 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 👇
- Reposted by HOTCUSCalling 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 💪📚
- 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!
- Professor Andrew Preston's insightful keynote on his new book Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security was welcomed, as were his asides (and primary documents) into the founding of HOTCUS way back in 2007.
- At the conference, we were pleased to announce that HOTCUS 2025 ECR article prize was awarded to@thomascryer.bsky.social for his article “‘A False Picture of Negro Progress’: John Hope Franklin, Racial Liberalism, and the Political (Mis)uses of Black History during the 1963 Emancipation Centennial.”
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View full threadThings usually quiet down over the summer, but we are looking to welcome members for our future events in 2026, all of which you can see advertised on our website or here on Bluesky as they come up. hotcus.org.uk
- Reposted by HOTCUSFirst 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.”
- Reposted by HOTCUSAbsolutely delighted to receive this award that will support my research trip to New York! Massive thanks to @hotcus.bsky.social 🙌🏼
- Reposted by HOTCUS1) 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.
- Reposted by HOTCUSexcellent 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!
- Reposted by HOTCUSI had an amazing time presenting alongside these brilliant academics on gender and modern American conservatism at the HOTCUS annual conference! @hotcus.bsky.social
- Reposted by HOTCUSHad a great time presenting my research at @hotcus.bsky.social’s Annual Conference in Lancaster this week!
- Reposted by HOTCUSComing 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/...
- Reposted by HOTCUSTime 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.
- Reposted by HOTCUSTime 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...
- 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...
- All positions are open, but we are especially keen for members to nominate themselves for Events Secretary. Working on the Committee is an excellent way to give back to the American history community and to shape the direction of our field, so get your nominations in and please share!
- Reposted by HOTCUSOverly excited to get my hands on the new @hotcus.bsky.social mug merch! ☕️🗃️
