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Dr Alys D Beverton

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Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. Researching C19th United States political and diplomatic culture. Views my own. Author of ‘Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination in the Civil War Era,’ UNC Press, 2025

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Project MUSE - Sexual Violence and Military Justice in the Occupied South

We're deep in marking season so this feels like a remnant of another life, but my article, 'Sexual Violence and Military Justice in the Occupied South' is now available in the June issue of Civil War History: muse.jhu.edu/pub/14/artic...

28.05.2025 14:25 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Lecturer in American History - Cardiff University - Job Details Job Details: Lecturer in American HistorySchool of History, Archaeology and ReligionAn exciting new opportunity has arisen

Feels a bit absurd to be promoting this, but there's a 12 month 18/19th C American history post at Cardiff. Deadline 15.06.25. Feel free to msg or contact me via email - doddingtond@cardiff.ac.uk - for further information: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

28.05.2025 09:23 👍 8 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 1

This looks like a very useful event

14.05.2025 16:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

14 May 1607: English colonists arrive at Jamestown. In my book The Virginia Venture @pennpress.bsky.social I explored the social history of this colonial project, from an English/transatlantic perspective involving women, the poor, children, institutions
#onthisday #Jamestown #Virginia #history

14.05.2025 12:44 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Exceptionalism in Crisis | Alys D. Beverton | University of North Carolina Press Before 1861, US Americans could confidently claim to belong to the New World's "exceptional" republic, unlike other self-governing nations in the Western Hem...

My book is now officially in print! Order 'Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination during the Civil War Era' here: uncpress.org/book/9781469...

06.05.2025 10:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“The master whished to reproduce”: slavery, forced intimacy, and enslavers’ interference in sexual relationships in the antebellum South, 1808–1861 This article examines the extent to which enslavers across the antebellum South forced enslaved men and women to reproduce. Using a spectrum of violence as a tool of coercion, enslavers coerced, ca...

Fascinating OPEN ACCESS article by @aishadjelid.bsky.social in ANCH on forced reproduction in the antebellum South, filling an important gap in the historiography of American slavery - read and share free of charge using this link:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@branchuk.bsky.social

18.04.2025 15:18 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Education Committee announces session on higher education funding - Committees - UK Parliament Education Committee Chair Helen Hayes MP has today announced a deep dive evidence session examining funding issues in the higher education sector. 

Long overdue … committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...

14.03.2025 13:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Interesting thread on public history, Reddit, and gaming…Didn’t think I’d be putting together those three in a sentence today

06.03.2025 13:44 👍 21 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

Very pleased to be part of this project. Look out for more updates on 'American Imperialism in the Long Nineteenth Century' soon!

06.03.2025 09:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you’re a UK-based US historian you should definitely consider putting in for this, especially if you’re PhD/ECR. BrANCH is such a welcoming conference for those starting out in academia, and this year it’s teaming up with BGEAH! What could be better???

20.02.2025 17:04 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Cardiff 2025 — British American Nineteenth Century Historians

We're thrilled to open the call for papers for the 2025 BrANCH Conference, to be held jointly with the British Group in Early American History (BGEAH). This year’s conference will be hosted in Cardiff, Wales on September 12-14, 2025! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Find out more info & how to apply on our website 👇

17.02.2025 16:14 👍 8 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 1
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Discover Why Thomas Jefferson Meticulously Monitored the Weather Wherever He Went The third president knew that the whims of nature shaped Americans' daily lives as farmers and enslavers

Learn how and why Thomas Jefferson, citizen scientist, tracked the weather. Learned a lot researching + writing this for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social 🗃️ ✍️ #skystorians www.smithsonianmag.com/history/disc...

03.01.2025 13:10 👍 61 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 2

Thanks for this, it’s a great piece! Really helped with a bit of research I’m doing

26.01.2025 06:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Exceptionalism in Crisis | Alys D. Beverton | University of North Carolina Press Before 1861, US Americans could confidently claim to belong to the New World’s "exceptional" republic, unlike other self-governing nations in the Western H...

Hey folks, a reminder that you have until the end of this month to get a 30% discount when you pre-order my book Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the U.S. Imagination during the Civil War Era uncpress.org/book/9781469...

23.01.2025 12:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hi!

23.01.2025 07:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Exceptionalism in Crisis | Alys D. Beverton | University of North Carolina Press Before 1861, US Americans could confidently claim to belong to the New World’s "exceptional" republic, unlike other self-governing nations in the Western H...

EXCEPTIONALISM IN CRISIS, by @alysbeverton.bsky.social. For many Americans in the 19thc, Mexico was regarded as the unstable, uncivilized, revolution-prone nation to the South - an example of what the US would never be. The Civil War made them revisit these assumptions. uncpress.org/book/9781469...

14.11.2024 17:00 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Exceptionalism in Crisis | Alys D. Beverton | University of North Carolina Press Before 1861, US Americans could confidently claim to belong to the New World’s "exceptional" republic, unlike other self-governing nations in the Western H...

Need a last minute xmas gift? Never fear! My book Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination during the Civil War Era is available to pre-order from @uncpress.bsky.social. Follow this link www.uncpress.org/book/9781469... and use the code 01SOCIAL30 for 30% off

19.12.2024 07:38 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0