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This strand of our one-year MSt or two-year MPhil in History   is the equivalent of a free-standing Master’s in American History. 

Native American leader Sitting Bull 1883 by D F Barry

This programme is intended to immerse you in the historiography and current debates in American history and to provide you with rigorous training in historical research, writing and argumentation. Ranging from the emergence of Native America to the history of the present, the course allows you to discover the richness and dynamism of past and contemporary American historical writing and develop intellectual familiarity with advanced research in American history. In addition to emphasising the unique intellectual and methodological contributions driven by the American historical profession, this course emphasises American history’s openness to inter-disciplinarity and to global intellectual currents that have shaped the discipline of history as a whole. This deep historiographical grounding equips candidates to undertake their own research design and master the long-term development of historical writing in the field of American history.

Recent US history graduates have taken up posts at Stanford University, the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University College London, Northumbria University and the University of Birmingham.

Course Organisation

Alongside the  Theory and Methods   course, students spend their first term studying Sources and Historiography . The seminars cover the major developments in historical writing from the professionalization of the discipline at the start of the 20th century through to the end of the century, focusing in particular on recent developments and debates. The seminars also include sessions on bibliography, primary sources and planning the dissertation. Each student is assigned an adviser who provides specific skills training in classes or tutorials during Michaelmas and Hilary Terms

In the second term, students take one of a wide portfolio of Option courses.  Those particularly relevant to US History typically include:

Black Women in the Anglo-American Atlantic World, 1600-1850

This course will explore the working and domestic lives, ideas, resistance efforts and productions of African and African descended women in the Anglo-American world from the early modern era to the middle of the 19 th  century. Its subjects will include both enslaved and free black girls and women in British North America, the Caribbean, and West Africa. Major topics discussed include: the process of female enslavement and the black female in the Atlantic slave trade; the enslaved and free black female’s social, cultural and working lives; black female as sexual being/object; reproduction and motherhood; female resistance, maroonage and fugitivity; political voices and action; and autobiography, subjectivity and archives. Reading and source materials include primary and secondary readings and local archival explorations. They are marked below as required and optional/suggested.

U.S. Religion Abroad

Transnational approaches to US religious history have significantly enhanced our understanding of  America’s engagement with the wider world. This optional module explores how Catholic and Protestant missionaries and evangelists helped to establish American political and cultural influence abroad and were transformed through their experience in the mission field since the mid-19th century and throughout the 20th century. It pays particular attention to the complex racial and gender hierarchies at play in the mission field, the occurring conflicts between imperial ideology and missionary commitment, and the interactions between US missionaries and local religious contexts in Europe, Asia and Africa, which affected traditions and transformed power relations.  

We will explore how US missionaries and evangelists contributed to the rise of global humanitarianism, to the creation of what Ian Tyrrell called America’s 'Moral Empire', and to the establishment of US hegemony and cultural influence abroad in a Cold War world. Constantly shifting the perspective between the global and the national, the module will explore the extent to which missionary work challenged and transformed the identity and worldview of US Christians working overseas, for example with regard to race and segregation, and how the knowledge, narratives, and images they fed back into the political and religious discourse at home changed the United States. 

Throughout the degree, students work towards a dissertation.  Recent topics have included: 

  • Revival as Ritual: Old and New Perspectives on American Revivalism, 1800-1865
  • Oppression or Free-Will: The Structuralisation and Historiography of Female Agency in the Mormon Church in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
  • The Paranoid Style is “back”. Did it ever go away?

Faculty and Research Culture

Oxford’s American historians offer guidance in a number of specialties. Particular strengths include Native American history, history of women and gender, borderlands history, transnational and transimperial history, history of the state, history of capitalism, intellectual history, environmental history and history of race. The Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professorship makes Oxford unique among British universities by every year enabling a distinguished American historian to spend a year in Oxford teaching, researching and leading seminars. Our seminars take place at the Rothermere American Institute , the foremost academic institution beyond America’s shores for teaching and research in American history, US politics, international relations, literature, and culture. A visiting speaker seminar features leading scholars presenting cutting-edge work in the field and forms an integral part of the MSt course.

Admissions Questions

We normally take about c.12 MSt students and one or two MPhil students in this area, but numbers vary from year to year and we are able to be flexible.  If you have any questions about our admissions procedure, please check the University admissions pages  and/or contact Graduate Admissions . You can also contact any of the academics in your relevant area of study. You can filter the Academics page  by period, region or specialism. 

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Jose Enrique de la Pena

Excerpts from Anti-Prohibition Statements

Irenee DuPont and The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment

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Excerpts from report on pastoral visit to new mexico.

Pedro Tamaron y Romeral, Bishop of Durango

Excerpts from Speeches in Parliament Opposing the Stamp Act

William Pitt

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Stokely Charmichael

Excerpts from The Life and Adventures of “Buffalo Bill”

William F. Cody

Excerpts from a Letter to B. Magoffin

Stephen F. Hale

Excerpts from a Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier

Joseph Plumb Martin

Excerpts from a Report to Lewis Cass on William Walker

A.I. DeIrisarri

Excerpts from a Speech Delivered at a Dinner Given in his Honor by the U.S. Congress

Louis Kossuth

Excerpts from a Speech Delivered in Lancaster County

Thaddeus Stevens

Excerpts from a speech delivered by Adolf Hitler to open the 1933 Congress of the National Socialist Party

Adolf Hitler

Excerpts from the Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea

Gomes Eannes de Azurara

Excerpts from the Interrogation of Josephe and Pedro Naranjo on the Pueblo War for Independence

Excerpts from the narragansett act of submission to charles i.

Narragansett leaders

Excerpts from the Scopes Trial

Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan

Excerpts from the Trial of William White, John Rose Archer, and William Taylor and the Execution of White and Taylor

Vice Admirality Court, Boston

Excerpts from “An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negroes”

Barbados Assembly

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Mary Elizabeth Lease

Excerpts from “How We Got Involved”

Benjamin Spock and Michael Zimmerman

Excerpts from “Letters from Alabama”

Anne Royall

Excerpts from “Observations on the New Constitution, and the Federal and State Conventions by a Columbian Patriot”

Mercy Otis Warren

Excerpts from “Peace Without Conquest”

Lyndon B. Johnson

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A. Mitchell Palmer

Excerpts from “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

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Faith and Business

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Final Report of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities

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Rudyard Kipling

Freeman Hunt Gives Advice to Aspiring Businessmen

Freeman Hunt

Gadsden Steel Testifies about Klan Violence

Gadsden Steel

Gandeaktena Becomes a Christian

Vincent Bigot

George H.W. Bush and the New World Order

George H.W. Bush

George Kennan Argues for Containment

George Kennan

George Washington on Braddock’s Defeat

George Washington

George Whitefield Experiences South Carolina

George Whitefield

Getting out the Vote

Helen M. Todd

Gibbons v. Ogden

U.S. Supreme Court

God is Beside You on the Picket Line

Cesar Chavez

Goodbye to All That

Robert Graves

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

United States Congress

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Henry Clay Work

Homosexuals in the Movement

Gay Liberation Front

How Free Is Free? A Sharecropping Contract

A.T. Mial and Fenner Powell

How I Become a Socialist

How we advertised america.

George Creel

How to Survive an Atomic Bomb

Richard Gerstell

If I Were a Man

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Immigration Policies

In defense of slavery.

Edmund Ruffin

Inaugural Address

George Wallace

Instructions for the Fathers of Our Society Who Shall Be Sent to the Hurons

Jean de Brebeuf

Inventions Remaking Leisure

Robert Lynde and Helen Lynde

I’d Rather be Black than Female

Shirley Chisholm

Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives

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James Madison

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John Greenleaf Whittier

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John O’Sullivan

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Josiah strong on the superiority of anglo-saxons.

Josiah Strong

Judith Sargent Murray Proclaims the Equality of the Sexes

Judith Sargent Murray

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Knights of labor demands.

Terence V. Powderly

Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley

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Letter from an Indentured Servant

Richard Frethorne

Letter on “Freedman’s Affairs in Kentucky and Tennessee”

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William T. Sherman

Letter to the Countess of Lincoln about establishing the colonies of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay

Thomas Dudley

Letters from Afonso, King of Kongo, to João III, King of Portugal, 1526.

Afonso, King of Kongo

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Harriet Hanson Robinson

Lydia Allen Rudd Goes West

Lydia Allen Rudd

Margaret Fuller Examines the Condition of Women in the Nineteenth Century

Margaret Fuller

Mary Rowlandson is Kidnapped

Mary Rowlandson

Massachusetts Governor Describes a Riot against the Stamp Act, 1765

Francis Bernard 

McCarthyism in Action

Joseph McCarthy

Memoir of Slavery

Annie Young

Memoirs of the Life of Job

Thomas Bluett

Methodist Revivalist Describes Backcountry Religious Awakening

Peter Cartwright

Monroe Doctrine

James Monroe

Native Priests Respond to the Spanish

New england federalists challenge the madison administration—the resolutions of the hartford convention.

Delegates from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode-Island

No One Has Starved

Fortune Magazine

Non-Violence, Love, and Civil Rights

Notes on johnson and reconstruction.

Georges Clemenceau

Nuremberg Diary

Gustave Gilbert

Observations On the New Constitution

Mercy Warren Otis

Olaudah Equiano’s Autobiography

Olaudah Equiano

Omaha Platform

People's Party of America

Our Country: Perils—The City

Paquiquineo travels the world, passages from a journal.

John Dooley

Peter Oliver on Non-importation

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Ho Chi Minh (Nguyen Ai Quoc)

Petroleum V. Nasby Finds a Platform for Northern Democrats

David Ross Locke

Phyllis Wheatley Responds to the Students at Harvard

Phyllis Wheatley

Plain Consels for Freedmen

Clinton B. Fisk

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

William Riordan

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United States Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization

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Harry S. Truman

Press Conference

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Principles of Scientific Management

Frederick Winslow Taylor

Promoting Pennsylvania

William Penn

Radical Feminism and Gay Liberation

Robin Morgan

Radio Address

Charles Lindbergh

Reaganomics

Reconciliation with the colonies.

Edmund Burke

Reminiscences of Emancipation Day

Henry Turner

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Report on federal relief efforts.

Lorena Hickock

Report on Manufactures

Alexander Hamilton

Report on Public Credit

Andrew Hamilton

Report on the Condition of the South

Carl Schurz

Report on the Subject of Manufactures

Return to normalcy, returning soldiers.

W.E.B. DuBois

Richard Frethorne Writes Home from America

Rights of the colonies asserted and proved, rosie the riveter revisited.

Juanita Loveless

Samuel Mitchill Describes to his Wife Aaron Burr’s Farewell Speech to the Senate

Samuel Mitchill

Second Inaugural Address

Selections from louisa may alcott’s transcendental wild oats.

Louisa May Alcott

Selling the War

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James H. Hammond

Sermons on Intemperance

Lyman Beecher

Seven Weeks in the Great Yo-Semite

Fitz Hugh Ludlow

Sixth Annual Message to Congress

Slave petition for freedom to the massachusetts legislature.

Slaves in Massachusetts

Social Responsibility: A Conservative View

Doug Bandow

Sociology of the South

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Sojourner Truth

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Southie Won’t Go

Ione Malloy

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James Wilson

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Bill Clinton

Statement of Purpose

National Organization for Women

States’ Rights v. Federal Power in the Early Republic—McCulloch v. Maryland

Storm of steel.

Ernst Junger

Studies of Factory Life: Among the Women

Lillie B. Chase Wyman

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Charles Sumner

Teenagers in the Age of Conformity

H.H. Remmers & D.H. Radler

Telephone Conversation with Senator Richard Russell

Testimony before congress on the activities of the ku klux klan, testimony before the industrial commission on the relations and conditions of capitol and labor.

N.F. Thompson

The 1932nd Psalm

E.J. Sullivan

The American Commonwealth

James Bryce

The American Crisis

The anti-nuclear movement.

National Conference of Catholic Bishops

The Atlanta Compromise

Booker T. Washington

The Atlantic Charter

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

The autobiography of sansom occum.

Sansom Occum

The Aztecs Address Their Gods

The Nahuas 

The Ballot or the Bullet

The case against the reds, the clash of civilizations.

Samuel Huntington

The Confessions of Nat Turner

The conquest of new spain.

Bernal Diaz del Castillo

The Cross of Gold

William Jennings Bryan

The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb

Henry Stimson

The Dutch Arrive at Manhattan

John Heckewelder

The Education of Republican Women

Benjamin Rush

The Election of 1932: Restoring Faith in Government

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The Federalist, No. 10

The first inaugural address, the first issue of the liberator.

William Lloyd Garrison

The Footloose Migration

Neil Morgan

The Four Freedoms

The fourteen points.

Woodrow Wilson

The Generall Historie of Virginia

The gettysburg address, the god that failed.

Arthur Koestler

The Gospel of Wealth

Andrew Carnegie

The Great Illusion

Norman Angell

The Great Society Comes Apart

Mario Savio

The Hashbury is the Capitol of the Hippies

Hunter S. Thompson

The History of the Standard Oil Company

Ida Tarbell

The Influence of the Trading Spirit upon the Social and Moral Life of America

Henry W. Bellows

The Intolerable Acts

The kentucky resolutions, the king and queen of spain give authorization to columbus.

Granada Capitulations

The Klan’s Fight for Americanism

Hiram Evans

The Law and the LGBT Community

The lowell offering, a mill worker describes her work and life.

The Lowell Offering

The Malaise Speech

The massacre of the jews, the misconduct of packingtown.

Upton Sinclair

The Mississippi Black Code Defines Freed People’s Rights

Mississippi State Legislature

The Montgomery Improvement Association

Rosa Parks and E.D. Nixon

The Navigation Act of 1651

United States Government

The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain

Langston Hughes

The New Freedom

The nixon doctrine, the novikov telegram.

Nikolai Novikov

The Parties’ Battle for the Family

The passing of the great race.

Madison Grant

The Power of Positive Thinking

Norman Vincent Peale

The Power of the Positive Women

Phyllis Schafley

The Principles of Scientific Management

Frederick Taylor

The Problem that Has No Name

Betty Friedan

The Progressives and Motivation for Reform

Jane Addams

The Pueblo Indians Eject the Spaniards

Pueblo Indians

The Puritans Face a Crisis

Robert Calef

The Republican, No 11

Fisher Ames

The Sources of Soviet Conduct

X (George F. Kennan)

The Southern Manifesto

Strom Thurmond and Richard Russell

The Status Seekers

Vance Packard

The Trials of Girlhood

Harriet Jacobs

The Truman Doctrine

The us teen-age consumer.

Life Magazine

The Unemployed Man and his Family

Mirra Komarovsky

The United Auto Workers versus General Motors

Walter Reuther

The Valedictory Oration

Molly Wallace

The Virginia Act and the Kentucky Act

The virginia declaration of rights, the war on poverty.

Marian Wright

The Work of Nations

Robert Reich

The “White Ethnics”

Roman Pucinski

Theodore Roosevelt, “The Strenuous Life”

Thomas jefferson on the supposed inferiority of african-americans, thomas jefferson’s letter to william henry harrison, three guineas.

Virginia Woolf

Three Years in California

Walter Colton

Tweed Days in St. Louis

Lincoln Steffens

Twenty-Years at Hull House

Two connecticut slaves petition for freedom during the american revolution, two sides of globalization.

Kenichi Ohmae

Two Songs of the Metropolis

Charles Lawlor

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Victory Abroad and at Home

James G. Thompson

Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom

Waifs in new york city’s slums, walt whitman visits military hospitals.

Walt Whitman

War Hawk Tennessee Congressman Felix Grundy’s Predictions about the War of 1812

Felix Grundy

War Message

War message to congress, washington’s farewell address, ways to serve the nation during the war, we are mired in stalemate.

Walter Cronkite

Wealth and Poverty

George Gilder

What Does the Working Man Want?

Samuel Gompers

What Has Happened in America?

What social classes owe each other.

William Graham Sumner

What We Want

Stokeley Carmichael

What was the New Deal?

Norman Thomas

White House Tapes

Richard Nixon and H.R. Haldeman

Who Won the Cold War?

Wade Huntley

Why Should We March?

A. Philip Randolph

William Hawkins Brings Brazilians to London

William Hawkins

William Penn Meets with Indians

Women in industry: changes on the home front, women in slavery.

Frances Anne Kemble

Young Mother

Ladies' Home Journal

“A Model of Christian Charity”

John Winthrop

“A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge Among the British Plantation in America”

“a summary view of the rights of british america”, “account of the boston massacre”.

Thomas Preston

“Acres of Diamonds”

Russell H. Conwell

“Address in the Haymarket Trial”

“an account of the boston tea party”.

John Hawkes

“An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery,” New York

New York State Legislatures

“An Opinion on the Constitutionality of an Act to Establish a Bank”

“and reform moves on”.

Tammany Hall

“As Good a Country as Any Man Needs to Dwell In”

Job Johnson

“Big Tim” Sullivan on New York’s Campaign Trail

“cakewalk in iraq”.

Kenneth Adelman

“Commencement of The Liberator”

“copperhead dissent”.

Clement Vallandigham

“Crime Against Kansas”

Bryant’s Minstrels

“Editorial on Manifest Destiny”

“eyewitness at the triangle fire”.

William G. Shepherd

“Homeless in America”

Major Paul Kelly

“How a Slave Was Made a Man”: Frederick Douglass Fights Back against Edward Covey

“letter to the editor” on the jobs corps.

Sargent Shriver

“Letter to the Sovereigns”

Christopher Columbus

“Letters Patent Granted to John Cabot and His Sons”

James A. Williamson

“Lynching at the Curve”

Ida B. Wells

“Manifesto Concerning the Present Troubles in Virginia”

Nathaniel Bacon

“Mexican Accounts of Conquest from the Florentine Codex”

James Lockhart

“Misplaced Power”

“observations concerning the increase of mankind, peopling of countries, ec.”, “on civil disobedience”.

Henry David Thoreau

“On Self-Help”

“one’s-self i sing”, “remember the ladies”, “security handbook”, “sinners in the hands of an angry god”.

Jonathan Edwards

“Spiritual Travels”

Nathan Cole

“Technology, the Great Equalizer”

Solomon D. Trujillo

“That We Might All Be Rich”

Henry George

“The Atlanta Exposition Address”

“the battle hymn of the republic”.

Julia Ward Howe

“The Cotton Kingdom”

Frederic Law Olmsted

“The Era of Big Government Is Over”

William J. Clinton

“The Future of the Negro People of the Slave States”

“the new colossus”.

Emma Lazarus

“The New Deal for Nearly Four Months”

J. Frederick Essary

“The Republican, No II”

“the stability of the union”.

De Bow’s

“They Should be Bread for Us”: A Puritan Account of the Pequot War 1637

“union and freedom, without compromise”.

Salmon P. Chase

“Vices of the Political System of the United States”

“what is an american”.

J. Hector St. John de Crévecoeur

“What the Black Man Wants”

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The Oxford History Of The American West

The Oxford History Of The American West

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When we think of the American West, we tend to conjure up images that are known the world over: bearded forty-niners leading pack mules up a mountain trail, the Oklahoma land stampede, Custer’s Last Stand, and especially the range-riding, quick-shooting cowboy. But these familiar images are only a small part of western history. From the arrival of the Navajos in the Southwest more than seven hundred years ago, to the first Spanish settlements in New Mexico in the late sixteenth century, to the large Mormon migration to the Great Salt Lake, to the tourists flocking to the neon landscape of modern Las Vegas, the complex story of the West stretches across centuries, embracing many voices and contrasting cultures. The West is in fact as varied as America itself. Indeed, to enlarge on Wallace Stegner’s singular phrase, the West is America, only more so. Lavishly illustrated and based on the finest scholarship, The Oxford History of the American West is the first comprehensive study to do full justice to the rich complexity of this region. It brings together the work of twenty-eight leading western historians who explore this area from a dazzling number of perspectives. They provide insightful portraits of the West as a distinctive place of varied peoples - native and non-native, European and Asian, African and Latino - and of varied terrain - from the timbered Pacific Northwest to the Dakota Badlands, and from the fires of Kilauea to the ice cliffs of Glacier Bay, Alaska. They describe the great wealth generated by a series of spectacular bonanzas, such as gold at Sutter’s Mill, copper in Butte, Montana, and oil on Alaska’s north shore; illuminate the role of the West in the national and global economy; and consider the environmental challenges created by replacing buffalo with cattle or by designating national parks and military test sites. The book also examines the social forces behind the violence of the West, the great political movements that affected the region (most notably, the Populist Party), and the importance of families in settling the West (for instance, tracing one family’s westward migration over 150 years). The authors provide important insights about many longstanding controversies, and they offer not only the fruits of the latest thinking about the West, but also a vivid sense of how people actually lived. For instance, we read of pioneers who grated green corn to make pudding they flavored with berries and grasshoppers, and who ate the culms (the soft inner linings of the stalks) like asparagus. Finally, each chapter concludes with an extensive annotated bibliography, offering a full review of related material, and there is a comprehensive index to guide readers to topics of special interest. Ranging from a thoughtful analysis of John Ford’s classic My Darling Clementine, to a revisionist look at cattle grandee Granville Stuart (once Montana’s most revered pioneer), to a survey of Western art and literature (including figures as diverse as Francis Parkman, Frederic Remington, Willa Cather, Georgia O’Keeffe, and N. Scott Momaday), this lively, authoritative volume continually challenges the familiar as it broadens the reader’s understanding of a vast and varied region.

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Academics win claim against Oxford University over ‘sham contracts’

Rebecca Abrams and Alice Jolly claimed they were denied important workplace rights for 15 years

Two academics who sued Oxford University for employing them on “sham contracts” as gig economy workers, have won their claim for employee status in a ruling that could have implications for other higher education workers on precarious contracts.

Rebecca Abrams and Alice Jolly, both respected authors, taught on Oxford’s prestigious creative writing course for 15 years, but were employed on fixed-term “personal services” contracts, which they claimed denied them important workplace rights.

After an employment tribunal hearing last month, the judge found in their favour, ruling that they were engaged on fixed-term contracts of employment and should therefore be classed as employees. Lawyers said a hearing would be held to assess the implications of the ruling.

Abrams welcomed the judgment and said she hoped it would prompt “an urgently needed reboot” in the way universities treat teachers. “Alice and I are skilled professionals teaching at one of the world’s top universities, yet we’ve been employed year after year on sham contracts that have denied us our employment rights and legal protections.

“With nearly 70% of its teaching staff on precarious contracts, Oxford is one of the worst offenders, but this is an issue that extends across UK higher education. Casualisation is a race to the bottom – bad for teachers, bad for students, and bad for universities.”

Abrams and Jolly had long argued their contracts were sham. According to their lawyers, Oxford said it would offer more appropriate contracts in a letter to the Society of Authors in April 2022. Two months later their contracts were not renewed.

“Both will seek a judgment that the failure to renew these contracts was an act of victimisation as result of their whistleblowing and trade union activity,” said a statement from Leigh Day solicitors, who represented the pair.

The University and College Union, which represents lecturers and other university staff, has campaigned on the issue of casualisation in higher education, taking extensive industrial action in recent years over insecure contracts, as well as pay and conditions.

“I simply cannot understand why the university has spent four years (at huge cost) trying to silence me and Rebecca when they knew all along that the contracts are a sham,” said Jolly. “This legal action is not about our personal circumstances. It is about the future of higher education and also about the status of writers who teach in universities.”

David Graham, co-founder of the litigation fund Law for Change, which supported the pair, said: “Our mission is to back legal actions that have a clear social benefit and the continuing erosion of lecturers’ employment rights in higher education institutions is an area Law for Change is particularly concerned about.

“This positive outcome for the claimants will not only secure better contract rights for lecturers at Oxford University but also help others working under exploitative contracts across the academic community.”

Ryan Bradshaw, a solicitor with Leigh Day, added: “This is an important case that highlights the need for higher education providers to review and rethink their treatment of precariously employed staff. It is not acceptable for these institutions to continue to seek to avoid their legal obligations. The gig economy has no place in our universities.”

In a separate dispute, a group claim brought by students against University College London, alleging breach of contract after Covid and industrial action disrupted their studies, is to proceed to court after talks aimed at finding a settlement ended without agreement last month.

A judge halted proceedings last July to allow more time for talks between the two sides but there has been no progress, so both sides have mutually agreed to lift the stay on high court proceedings. Meanwhile, thousands more claimants have joined the action, taking the total to around 5,000, according to lawyers.

An Oxford University spokesperson said: “We have been notified of the tribunal’s ruling on this preliminary hearing and are currently reviewing it.”

UCU general secretary Jo Grady added: “This is a huge win in the fight against gig economy working practices in higher education. Despite being one of the richest institutions in the world, the University of Oxford keeps thousands of academics on low-paid insecure contracts that leave staff impoverished.

“It’s completely unacceptable and it has to stop. This victory shows these contracts are often a sham and staff on them are entitled to the benefits of secure employment. Every employer in the sector now needs to pay attention to this ruling and begin working with UCU to move their employees onto secure contracts.”

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Young Michigan voters are 'uncommitted' to Biden; U.S. airman dies of self-immolation

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Democratic and Republican voters in Michigan head to the primaries today. President Biden and former President Donald Trump are expected to win their parties' nominations. Still, opponents of Biden's support for Israel's war in Gaza are calling for Democrats to send a message by voting "uncommitted ."

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"I Voted" stickers on a table on the last day of early voting at a polling station inside Wayne County Community College Northwest Campus in Detroit on Feb. 25.

  • NPR's Don Gonyea, who lives in Michigan, tells Up First that the disillusionment among voters is especially palpable in Arab and Muslim communities . He adds he used to hear people ponder a third-party vote during the general election but never during primary week. Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, the first Arab American mayor of a majority Arab American city, tells Up First host Leila Fadel that his community is "not sizable enough to make a candidate win" but " sizable enough to make a candidate lose ." Fadel reports that young people, progressives and particularly young Black voters she spoke to are also outraged and shared their worries over human rights in America.
  • Negotiations for a temporary cease-fire in Gaza are ongoing. President Biden told reporters last night he hoped a deal could be announced by next Monday.
  • See what photojournalists have captured on the ground this past week in Gaza , Israel and Lebanon. 

An active duty U.S. Air Force member has died after he set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., on Sunday. In a video leading up to the incident, Aaron Bushnell, 25, said it was an act of protest against Israel's war in Gaza and that he would "no longer be complicit in genocide."

  • Oxford University sociologist Michael Biggs studies people who have died by self-immolation. He tells Morning Edition the "clearest parallel" to Sunday's incident is Norman Morrison, a Quaker who set himself on fire outside the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam War. Biggs adds these acts are different from other acts of self-harm because individuals are often acting on behalf of a political cause, and there are no clear instances of previous "psychological instability" in most cases. Self-immolation tends to have a bigger impact in countries outside the West , according to Biggs. In the West, it can often be seen as too extreme and "in a democracy, we see it as there are other ways of making your voice heard."  

If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing 9-8-8 or the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.

The Federal Trade Commission and nine states are suing to block the $24.6 billion merger of the two largest supermarket chains in the U.S. — Kroger and Albertsons. If they're combined, it would be the biggest U.S. grocery merger in recent history. Kroger owns stores like Ralphs, Harris Teeter, Fred Meyer and King Soopers. Albertsons, its top direct competitor, owns stores like Safeway, Vons and Jewel-Osco. The FTC argues the merger would eliminate competition for workers and shoppers.

  • The companies say the merger is "existential to surviving in today's grocery business," NPR's Alina Selyukh reports. They say blocking the deal would only help its non-union national retail giants, including Walmart, Amazon and Costco. Selyukh adds that the case is interesting because it's the first time regulators will argue that mergers should not only protect consumers and prices but also workers.  

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Soldiers spend time swimming in the pool during a one-week course of rehab at a center in northeastern Ukraine.

It's been two years since Russia invaded Ukraine. NPR photographer and visuals editor Claire Harbage has realized that life goes on for those in the middle of a long war. Harbage, sharing her experience of covering the war, contrasts the initial resilience and perseverance of the first year with the current sense of stagnation as people confront impossible choices for survival.

See photos of civilians in Ukraine living their day-to-day lives while a war rages in the background.

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This Thursday is a leap day — an extra day that's added to the Gregorian calendar every four years (except for years divisible by 100, but not 400). The rules for leap years can be confusing, so Morning Edition asked experts in history, astronomy and economics to break down why we have leap days, the superstitions surrounding them, and an alternative calendar format.

  • A year — or the amount of time it takes for the Earth to orbit the sun — is actually 365.242190 days. Leap Days account for the extra .242190 of a day. 
  • Many leap year superstitions revolve around marriage and love. An old Irish tradition says women can propose to men on leap day. In Greece and some other countries, it's unlucky to get married on leap day.
  • Life can be tricky for leaplings — people with leap day birthdays. Some online forms don't recognize Feb. 29 as a valid birth date.
  • An economics professor argues that our current calendar is confusing  and proposes a new one that implements an occasional leap week at the end of the year, so the dates would be on the same day of the week every year. 

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NASA astronaut Victor Glover will be making his second flight to space as the pilot of the Artemis II mission.

  • Victor Glover was 10 years old when a televised space shuttle launch captivated him. He later became the first African American to spend an extended amount of time on the International Space Station. He'll soon be among the first humans to visit the moon in more than 50 years.
  • Students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine will receive free tuition after Ruth Gottesman, a chairperson of the college's board of trustees, donated $1 billion to the school. 
  • Much of the U.S. will be in the path of a total eclipse in April. A group of Harvard astronomers have created a sonification tool that turns the eclipse into sound so that people who are blind or have limited vision can experience the phenomenon too. (via Texas Standard )

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Mother of student killed in Oxford High School shooting praises Jennifer Crumbley verdict, saying 'accountability is a must'

T he mother of a Michigan student who lost her life in the Oxford High School shooting in November 2021 praised Jennifer Crumbley’s verdict as making “monumental history.”

Nicole Beausoleil, the mother of Madisyn Baldwin, said in a statement Wednesday: “The verdict proves that accountability is a must.”

“This case especially is important to me as a mother because she didn’t want to take legal responsibility for her child, she took the right away from me to be there for my child for the remainder of my life,” she said. 

A jury found Jennifer Crumbley, the mother of shooter Ethan Crumbley, guilty in an unanimous verdict of four counts of manslaughter — one for each of the students killed — on Tuesday.

The landmark decision marks the first time a parent in the United States has been held criminally responsible for a mass shooting committed by their child.

Beausoleil said the verdict "sets a new precedence to the justice system."

"I’m so grateful that justice has been served and the jury took the time to look through all the evidence and really assess all the red flags that lead up to that tragic day," she continued, calling it a "significant step forward."

"Honestly that is all we can do is to continue to move forward. Move forward knowing that we still have a lifetime of heartbreak," the mother said. "Madisyn’s voice deserves to be heard. She didn’t get that choice but her legacy remains the forefront of what I am determined to uphold."

She also thanked the public for remembering the families of the victims killed in the tragedy: Baldwin , 17; Tate Myre, 16; Hana St. Juliana, 14; and Justin Shilling, 17. Seven others were wounded.

Jennifer Crumbley faces up to 15 years in prison per count and remains held on bond. She will be sentenced April 9.

Her husband, James Crumbley, has also been charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter. He has pleaded not guilty and is set for trial next month.

Her son, Ethan, now 17, pleaded guilty as an adult to murder, terrorism and other crimes and was  sentenced in December to life in prison  without parole.

A jury foreperson in the trial said on NBC’s “TODAY” show Wednesday that the jury was moved by evidence showing that Crumbley failed to safely secure the gun her son used in the shooting and by journal entries made by the shooter.

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