Americas studies blog

Civil War Project update – A journey through the Southern (and Northern) States

2013-06-19T14:40:51+01:00

150 years ago, Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Fremantle of the Coldstream Guards was on a long train journey from Shelbyville, Tennessee, to Atlanta, Georgia. Fremantle was conducting an independent tour...

(What's on the minds of the curators of the Americas Collections at the British Library)

John Burnside: Finding Jennifer

2013-06-13T11:24:35+01:00

Five months into my Eccles Fellowship term, I can think of several reasons why my latest project has yet to acquire a title, (other than the embarrassingly vague-sounding working title I began with,...

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J. Montgomery Flagg and Uncle Sam

2013-06-11T15:05:58+01:00

If you’ve been anywhere in the vicinity of the Library in the last month or so, you can’t fail to have seen the accusatory pointing figure of Uncle Sam urging you to come to see our exhibition...

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The Secretary: a journey with Hillary Clinton

2013-06-04T17:16:56+01:00

Above: the cover of Ghattas' book, 'The Secretary: a journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the heart of American power' As the sun bathes central London it seems like the best possible time to...

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Connected histories: the East India Company and the Caribbean

2013-05-30T15:04:23+01:00

Above: View of Kingston and Port Royal from Windsor Farm. From the Caribbean Views Online Gallery It might not feel like it today but summer really is just around the corner, which means Summer...

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Lyse Doucet at the British Library

2013-05-27T13:56:00+01:00

A portrait of Lyse Doucet, just before she delivered the 18th Annual Douglas W. Bryant Lecture at the British Library, entitled From Acadie to Arab Spring: Reflections on America's Place in the...

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Norman Rockwell and the Four Freedoms

2013-05-23T10:01:06+01:00

If you’ve already visited the Library to see Propaganda: power and persuasion (and if you haven’t, we’ll send Uncle Sam round to get you) you will have spotted 4 large posters by Norman Rockwell –...

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The early US Navy in the Gulf

2013-05-22T10:04:00+01:00

Thanks to the British Library’s Qatar Foundation Partnership, a large collection of India Office Records are currently being digitised and researched. One of the Qatar team, Francis Owtram, recently...

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Justin Webb, James Montgomery Flagg and Uncle Sam

2013-05-21T09:57:33+01:00

A portrait of Justin Webb, presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, just before delivering the third annual Benjamin Franklin House Robert H. Smith lecture in American Democracy ('Wise Up...

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Noam Chomsky and Propaganda

2013-05-16T11:57:54+01:00

A portrait of Noam Chomsky just before he delivered a lecture at the British Library on 19 March this year, as part of the series of events under the banner of the Library's new exhibition...

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