Netherlands American Studies Association
New Publication by Laura Visser-Maessen
New Publication by Laura Visser-Maessen

New Publication by Laura Visser-Maessen

Robert Parris Moses: A Life in Civil Rights and Leadership at the Grassrootsby Laura Visser-Maessen University of North Carolina Press Approx. 448 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 10 halftones, 1 map, appends., notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN  978-1-4696-2798-4 Available: May 2016 One…

NASA Fall Event 2015

 Netherlands American Studies Association Fall Event 2015   “From Reconstruction to Ferguson: 150 Years of African-American Civil Rights, 1865-2015”   Friday, 6 November 2015 Leiden   On 6 November, Americanists gathered in Leiden for the NASA fall event, a symposium…

Call For Papers: 2016 NASA Conference. Deadline for application: June 1st
Call For Papers: 2016 NASA Conference. Deadline for application: June 1st

Call For Papers: 2016 NASA Conference. Deadline for application: June 1st

Call for Papers   2016 NASA Conference     American Studies after the Digital Turn     15-16 September 2016   Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, The Netherlands  We live in an era of academic “turns”: cultural, linguistic, transnational. The “digital turn” is…

Lecture by U.S. Ambassador Timothy Broas
Lecture by U.S. Ambassador Timothy Broas

Lecture by U.S. Ambassador Timothy Broas

  On November 19 2014 the Roosevelt Study Center and the University College Roosevelt will host the fourteenth lecture in the RSC public lecture series on Transatlantic Relations in the Town Hall in Middelburg. This year U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands Timothy…

Promotie Laura Visser-Maessen
Promotie Laura Visser-Maessen

Promotie Laura Visser-Maessen

Donderdag 10 oktober 2013 om 11.15 in de Senaatskamer van het Academiegebouw, Rapenburg 73, Leiden. A Lot of Leaders? One of the most dynamic, path breaking social movements in American history undoubtedly was the Civil Rights Movemnet of the 1960s. Since…