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Visualising America: The Student Experience in the United States

To lauch our online photo exhibition of images from your year (or semester) abroad, Dr Karen Jones writes: A key part of the American Studies programme at Kent has been the study abroad experience.  Many of our graduates will undoubtedly look back … Continue reading

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Remembering Professor Christine Bolt

Christine Bolt, who died in 2004, was one of the founding members of the Board of Studies in History (now the School of History) and a leading figure in the Centre for American Studies at the University of Kent. She … Continue reading

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Announcing the 2015 Bolt Lecture (22 Jan, 6pm)

The University of Kent welcomes Professor Clive Webb, Professor of Modern American History at the University of Sussex, to deliver this year’s Bolt Lecture. Entitled ‘British Reaction to the Kennedy Assassination’, this public lecture will take place on Thursday, 22nd … Continue reading

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Ethnography and American Culture in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1870-1920

The University of Kent is hosting a one-day symposium on 19th May 2014, entitled ‘Ethnography and American Culture in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1870-1920’. The symposium is being organised by Dr Michael J. Collins (University of Kent) and … Continue reading

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‘Idle No More’ activist’s talk at Kent

This coming Friday, February 7th, Professor Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair (University of Manitoba) will be giving a talk about his involvement with the Idle No More movement in Canada, both as an activist, and as a writer and academic. The talk … Continue reading

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Historian at the Movies: Saving Mr Banks reviewed

As featured on the BBC’s History Extra.com website, Dr John Wills, a senior lecturer in American history at the University of Kent, reviews Saving Mr. Banks – a biographical drama about PL Travers, the Australian creator of children’s literary classic Mary Poppins. … Continue reading

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