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Third Lecture in Seminar Series by Andrew Preston

On Monday 20 November 2023 Professor Andrew Preston (Cambridge University) will lead the 3rd session of the ... Read more

Black Citizenship Conference 2024

The conference “Contesting Black Citizenship from American Revolution to the Present,” hosted by the RIAS on 12 and 13 December 2024, will explore Black citizenship as a site of contest ... Read more

Dario Fazzi’s New Book: Smoke on the Water

In this book Dario Fazzi traces the rise and fall of ocean incineration, showing how a transnational environmental movement tested the limits of US political and economic power. ... Read more

Second Lecture in Seminar Series by Matthew Connelly

On Monday 23 October 2023 Professor Matthew Connelly (Columbia University) will lead the second session of the Seminar Series on Modern North American History. ... Read more

Now Hiring: Postdoctoral Researcher (1,0 fte)

The RIAS is pleased to announce a vacancy for a fulltime (1,0 fte) postdoctoral researcher in American history for a period of 2 years. ... Read more

Environmental Lecture and Award Ceremony RIAS/UCR Essay Prize

On Monday 30 October 2023,  Dario Fazzi will deliver the 2023 Roosevelt Environmental History Lecture. At this event, the RIAS/UCR “Sustaintable Freedoms” Essay Prize 2023 will ... Read more

Roosevelt Lecture: Speaking about Slavery

On Thursday 9 November 2023, Valika Smeulders will give the Fall Roosevelt Lecture on slavery and the Rijksmuseum. ... Read more

Roosevelt Visiting Professor: Kristin Hoganson

Kristin Hoganson is the Fall Roosevelt Visiting Professor from mid-September to mid-October of 2023. ... Read more

Book Presentation: Telling America’s Story to the World

On 6 October 2023, the RIAS is hosting the presentation of Harry Stecopoulos’s new book, Telling America’s Story to the World. ... Read more

Invitation: 1st Lecture in Seminar Series by Kristin Hoganson

On Monday 25 September 2023 Professor Kristin Hoganson (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) will give the inaugural lecture in the Seminar Series on Modern North American History. ... Read more

Webinar: From Slavery to Freedom

On Thursday 12 October 2023 the RIAS and The Netherland-America Foundation in New York will organize a webinar “From Slavery to Freedom in the American South and Dutch Caribbean.̶ ... Read more

Dario Fazzi New Professor by Special Appointment

As of 1 September 2023, Dario Fazzi is the new Professor by Special Appointment at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies and Leiden University’s Institute for History. ... Read more