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Robert Warrior's presidential address, "Home/not Home: Centering American Studies Where we Are," delivered at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Studies Association in Denver, Colorado.

In September 2016, PhD candidate Kathryn Vaggalis received the Center for Migration Research Graduate Student Grant, a $500 award designated for students performing migration-related research.

Ben Chappell will be speaking at the Kansas City Museum this week, discussing his research at Mexican American softball tournaments. It should be an interesting event, somewhere between an academic conference, an old-timer’s game, and Antiques Roadshow.

In Sedalia, Missouri, Marge Harlan spent $25,000 of her own money to build a "slave cabin." While she meant the cabin to honor the courage and resilience of African-Americans, many in the community, especially people of color, have found the gesture problematic and offensive.

A new associate dean at the University of Kansas will oversee diversity, equity and inclusion programming and policies for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

Editors of the American Studies Journal, Randal Jelks and Sherrie Tucker enjoy showing the summer reading issue of the AMS Journal to Jeannette Jones, University of Nebraska, at the Mid America ASA reception in Toronto.

Native American interrelated and comparative histories (especially 19th century); Black, Native, and U.S. women's histories; and African American and Native American women's literature.

Congratulations to Ray Pence for his significant contributions to the celebration of upcoming events and exhibit recognizing the American Disabilities Act 25th anniversary.  Events are hosted by The Dole Institute of Politics (

The Society for U.S. Intellectual History is pleased to announce the results of the deliberation of this year’s Annual Book Award Committee.

  My Pen, My Voice, My Vote , delivered by Frederick Douglass in the Age of the Civil War, Blight the Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University.