Announcements

  • U.S. Capitalism Beyond the New History of Capitalism

    2024-12-14

    Deadline: February 15, 2025

    In the past two decades, the New History of Capitalism (NHOC) has been one of the most important innovations in U.S. historiography. This research program produced a vast literature that, focusing in particular on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, has allowed to highlight the centrality of slavery in U.S. economic development, the industrial character of slave labor in Southern plantations, the establishment of global networks of commodities exchange, the role of the State in fostering development, as well as the role of finance in accelerating accumulation. However, while carefully detailing the emergence of capitalism as an institutional, judicial and financial order, this historiography has often tended to downplay the role of class and social conflicts. In this respect, the NHOC has often presented a history of capital (and of capitalists) detached from the power relations that structured it as a broader economic and social order.

    The ninth issue of USAbroad will explore strengths and shortcomings of the NHOC through articles that investigate the social, economic, political and intellectual history of U.S. capitalism. We encourage proposals exploring the social relationships underpinning American capitalism or studying how conflicts around class, race and sex contributed to forge it institutionally and ideologically. We welcome contributions that allow to broaden the chronological and methodological framework of the NHOC, for example including the twentieth and twenty-first century, as well as the intellectual history of U.S. capitalism. We invite proposals that seek to review and criticize the historiographical debate, for example by problematizing the question of the periodization and definition of capitalism, which the NHOC has largely avoided.

    You can access and download the full call for papers in PDF format at this link or you can read it by clicking on “Read more” at the bottom of this announcement. For any questions, please email usabroad@unibo.it.

    We look forward to receiving your proposals!

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  • The Role of Public History Within and Outside the United States: Critical Reflections

    2024-03-27

    Since its establishment as an academic research field in the U.S. in the late 1970s, public history has grown significantly, serving as a vital tool for examining contemporary issues, community memories, and conflicts at both scholarly and practical levels. USAbroad invites public history or public history-related contributions investigating US compelling past(s), heritage, memories, and socio-economic fractures. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the field, which benefits from the integration of various research areas and communication methods, contributions may draw from, but are not limited to, the following research areas related to American history:

    - Foreign relations (e.g. soft diplomacy actions);

    - Postcolonial studies;

    - Intellectual history (e.g. international circulation of ideas);

    - Global history;

    - Cultural studies (e.g. culture wars, Lost Cause);

    - Ethnic studies; (e.g. migrant communities, transnational connections)

    - Economic politics;

    - Media and game studies (e.g. the impact of American products over communities at home and abroad);

    - Military history (e.g. historical reenactments, war cemeteries)

    - Urban studies;

    - Heritage interpretation in museums, libraries, parks, rural or urban settings, etc.;

    - Teaching and education (e.g. historical anniversary);

    - Memory studies (e.g. analysis and practices over monuments; memories of trauma in communities or families)

    Click here to read and download the long version of the call.

    Please submit your abstract (500 words max) and your CV (2 pages max) to usabroad@unibo.it by May 20, 2024. Successful applicants will be notified by May 23, 2024, at the latest.

    Please note that, if your application is successful, you will need to submit a full 7000-word article by August 31, 2024.

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  • The United States in the Anthropocene

    2022-11-03

    USAbroad invites submissions for a two-day workshop and its 2024 issue. Authors of the selected abstracts will participate in the workshop and have their articles automatically considered for the 2024 issue of the journal. You can access the CFP at the following link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HHs4RDW1zH0th2z4mC1nDXuLOS0LgKSt/view?usp=sharing

    Please note that participation in the June 2023 workshop is a requirement to have the paper considered for publication in the 2024 issue. We kindly invite you not to submit your abstract if you already know that you won't be able to attend the event. To favour participation, each selected participant will receive a grant to subsidise travel and accommodation expenses (100 euros if travelling from Italy, 200 euros if travelling from outside Italy). The event will be in person, but we will consider requests to present at the conference via Zoom for those located outside Europe on a case-to-case basis. 

    Proposals must be sent by December 11, 2022, at usabroad@unibo.it. Please include a 300-word presentation of the paper (specifying the title, subject, originality, method, and sources) and a short CV (one page maximum).

    Selected papers will be announced by January 22, 2023. The deadline to submit papers for pre-circulation will be May 17, 2023. 

     

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  • Call for Abstracts. For bell hooks (1952-2021): "White-Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy" and "Feminism is for Everybody" in U.S. History, Politics, and Culture

    2022-02-28

    The next issue of USAbroad aims to acknowledge and celebrate the importance and impact of bell hooks' transgressive interdisciplinarity, which challenges the boundaries of academic disciplines and those of the cultural marketplace to present a "feminism for everybody." We invite proposals that address the myriad themes of her intellectual output: from gender to sex and sexuality, from sexism to the construction of masculinity, from racism to the representation of blackness, from the house as a site of resistance to women's labor, from the university teaching to education in general.

    Click here to read and download the long version of the call: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P7p4ykwLZzL5U6QEUN50f2cZNTKLBHV-M9kfkw4i2j0/edit?usp=sharing

    Applicants are asked to submit an abstract of approximately 500 words, along with a résumé including their main publications, by May 23, 2022. Please send your proposal by email to:
    usabroad@unibo.it
    Applicants will be notified regarding submission status by May 30, 2022. Please note that a final version of the accepted essay (maximum 7,000 words) must be submitted by September 4, 2022.

    More info can be found at: http://usabroad.unibo.it/

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  • Social Change and Political Representation in the Long Cycles of American History

    2021-03-14

    The fifth issue of USAbroad invites to reflect on the “long cycles” of American history from a broad historical perspective. We are interested in analyses that detail the historical reasons and actors that drove change in political cycles across time; explorations of the social, cultural and economic features of, and transformations along, one or more phases of U.S. history; research that focus on presidential policy and shifts in political and scientific culture in the progressive and conservative spheres; critiques and counter-narratives to the “cycle” thesis in American political history.

    Deadlines:

    • Submission of abstract: May 10, 2021
    • Outcome notified: May 20, 2021
    • Submission of full articles: August 23, 2021.

    You can also download the Call for Papers in PDF

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  • New Call for Papers – Gender and Empowerment in American History and Politics

    2020-03-19

    Deadline extended

    The fourth issue of USAbroad seeks to reflect on how gender interacted and still interacts with political discourse and practice at large. This means exploring not only how gender has influenced political participation and mobilization but also how gender issues have shaped and have been shaped by the society that underpins common political norms and institutions. The stated goal is to investigate the complex and multi-faceted link between gender and empowerment in American history and politics.

    Deadlines:

    • Submission of abstract: April 30 May 25, 2020
    • Outcome notified: May 18 June 15, 2020
    • Submission of full articles: September 13 October 4, 2020

    You can also download the Call for Papers in PDF

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  • New Call for Submissions – 2020

    2020-03-06

    The USAbroad Editorial Committee is pleased to announce that a new call for submissions of articles for the Journal’s 2020 issue is now open. We invite articles that investigate any aspects of U.S. history and politics: social, economic and political developments, relations of gender, race and class, international relations, intellectual history, history of policies and institutions. The journal pays specific attention to recent historiographical trends, in particular global, transatlantic and Atlantic history, and to multidisciplinary approaches which successfully intermingle history with social and political sciences.

    Submission of articles: April 2020
    Outcome notified: July 2020
    Date of publication: If the article is accepted with no or minor revisions, date of publication by September 2020

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  • Call for Papers – A Nation Divided: Conflict in US History and Politics

    2019-04-09

    The third issue of USAbroad seeks to reflect on the complex and multifaceted notion of conflict and its role in promoting political, economic, social and cultural change. The goal is to understand how conflict has manifested itself and shaped American society, economy, and politics over time, but also how it has influenced relations between the United States and the rest of the world. USAbroad invites submissions discussing any periods of U.S. history that address the theme of “conflict” in its broader meaning, from political, to social, cultural, racial, and institutional. Understanding conflict as a crucial catalyst of change, we are interested in problems of historical causation, action and reaction, crisis, progress and advancement.

    Deadlines:

    • Submission of abstract: May 19, 2019
    • Outcome notified: May 31, 2019
    • Submission of full articles: September 20, 2019

    You can also download the Call for Papers in PDF

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  • New Call for Submissions – 2019

    2018-11-19

    The USAbroad Editorial Committee is pleased to announce that a new call for submissions of articles for the Journal’s 2019 issue is now open. We invite articles that investigate any aspects of U.S. history and politics: social, economic and political developments, relations of gender, race and class, international relations, intellectual history, history of policies and institutions. The journal pays specific attention to recent historiographical trends, in particular global, transatlantic and Atlantic history, and to multidisciplinary approaches which successfully intermingle history with social and political sciences.

    Submission of articles: April 2019
    Outcome notified: July 2019
    Date of publication: If the article is accepted with no or minor revisions, date of publication by October 2019

    You can also download the Call for Paper in PDF.

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  • Call for proposals – Rewinding Global America: Nationalism and Contested Power

    2018-03-12

    Deadline extended

    Nationalism has been a defining feature of American history, politics, and international relations. The second issue of USAbroad aims to reassess and discuss the composite meaning of American nationalism from the early republic to contemporary developments, by looking at its historical making and re-making, often achieved through exclusionary processes that shifted the boundaries of citizenship and belonging.

    Deadlines:

    • Submission of proposals: April 22, 2018 May 13, 2018 (extended)
    • Acceptance notified by: May 6, 2018 May 27, 2018
    • Submission of full articles: August 31, 2018 September 13, 2018

    You can also download the Call for Paper in PDF.

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