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![Crystal Payne, AMCS Lynne Cooper Harvey Fellow, Honored with Emerging Scholar Award](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
![Video of Americanist Dinner Forum: Equity and Inclusion Beyond the Multicultural Academy](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/classroom_0.jpg?itok=ZI5Qn5di)
Video of Americanist Dinner Forum: Equity and Inclusion Beyond the Multicultural Academy
![AMCS Major Gabi Senno Awarded Inaugural Undergraduate Research Award](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/mcmillan%204.jpg?itok=Louqw-OJ)
AMCS Major Gabi Senno Awarded Inaugural Undergraduate Research Award
![Video of Americanist Dinner Forum: A Discussion about "The Neutral Ground"](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/neutral%20ground.jpg?itok=DpSkv4VL)
Video of Americanist Dinner Forum: A Discussion about "The Neutral Ground"
![AMCS Lecturer Zach Manditch-Prottas in the latest issue of "The Black Scholar"](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/the%20black%20scholar_0.jpg?itok=VMGYps-g)
AMCS Lecturer Zach Manditch-Prottas in the latest issue of "The Black Scholar"
![Video of Americanist Dinner Forum: Work, After the Future](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Strike%20graffiti.jpeg?itok=tR-81bzz)
Video of Americanist Dinner Forum: Work, After the Future
![Spring 2022 Course Highlight: L98 3520 Racial Unrest and Commission Politics: Ferguson and Beyond](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Bartzel_0.png?itok=8eTbm81J)
Spring 2022 Course Highlight: L98 3520 Racial Unrest and Commission Politics: Ferguson and Beyond
![Congratulations to Paige McGinley, newly appointed Director of American Culture Studies!](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/paige_1.png?itok=5vylLoWn)
Congratulations to Paige McGinley, newly appointed Director of American Culture Studies!
![Video of Americanist Dinner Forum: Race and K12 Education Part 2](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/classroom_0.jpg?itok=ZI5Qn5di)
Video of Americanist Dinner Forum: Race and K12 Education Part 2
![Video of Americanist Dinner Forum: Confronting Slavery & Higher Education](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/slavery_0.jpg?itok=1toBHY0X)
Video of Americanist Dinner Forum: Confronting Slavery & Higher Education
Meghan Kirkwood & Phil Maciak's Beyond Boundaries Podcast: St. Louis & the Documentary Image
![AMCS Director Lerone Martin featured guest at "Eat and Read @ Melba's"](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/melbas1.jpg?itok=2AOAv156)
AMCS Director Lerone Martin featured guest at "Eat and Read @ Melba's"
![Daniel Woo, AMCS Postdoc, Speaking at Symposium Honoring Michael Omi](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/woo_0.jpg?itok=-K2lEihW)
Daniel Woo, AMCS Postdoc, Speaking at Symposium Honoring Michael Omi
![The 'Whereas Hoops' Project](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Hoops-photo_0.jpeg?itok=BoaJMvUH)
The 'Whereas Hoops' Project
![American Culture Studies - Message to 2021 Graduates](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/commencement.jpg?itok=ST9qMw8_)
American Culture Studies - Message to 2021 Graduates
Why Do You Value AMCS? with Kit Smemo
![Why Do You Value AMCS? with Heidi Kolk](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/heidi%204_1.jpg?itok=YG6S8ePi)
Why Do You Value AMCS? with Heidi Kolk
Books for 2020 and Beyond: A Discussion with Alfred Darnell
![Video of Americanist Dinner Forum: Policing Blacknesss: Law, Race, and Criminal Justice Reform, March 3, 2021](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/nathan-dumlao-DHttgyAY44A-unsplash_3.jpg?itok=hFv6a1ba)
Video of Americanist Dinner Forum: Policing Blacknesss: Law, Race, and Criminal Justice Reform, March 3, 2021
![St. Louis International Film Festival Q&A Session: MLK/FBI with Lerone Martin and Director Sam Pollard](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/mlk%20image_1.jpg?itok=MD5eTuuV)
St. Louis International Film Festival Q&A Session: MLK/FBI with Lerone Martin and Director Sam Pollard
Books for 2020 and Beyond: A Discussion with Kit Smemo
Books for 2020 and Beyond: A Discussion with Phil Maciak
![Books for 2020 and Beyond: A Discussion with Heidi Kolk](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/heidi%204_0.jpg?itok=8PxxXqkW)
Books for 2020 and Beyond: A Discussion with Heidi Kolk
What Are You Teaching in Spring 2021? with Phil Maciak, Lecturer in English and American Culture Studies
![What Are You Teaching in Spring 2021? with Heidi Kolk, Assistant Professor, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/heidi%204.jpg?itok=GIvMzyYS)
What Are You Teaching in Spring 2021? with Heidi Kolk, Assistant Professor, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
What Are You Teaching in Spring 2021? with History Lecturer Kit Smemo
What Are You Teaching in Spring 2021? with Political Science Lecturer Alfred Darnell
What Are You Teaching in Spring 2021? with AFAS Lecturer Zach Manditch-Prottas
![What Are You Teaching in Spring 2021? with AMCS Lecturer Dave Walsh](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/AMCS_Walsh_D_P1044656_2.jpg?itok=08gncoZy)
What Are You Teaching in Spring 2021? with AMCS Lecturer Dave Walsh
Books for 2020 and Beyond: A Discussion with Zach Manditch-Prottas
![Books for 2020 and Beyond: A Discussion with Dave Walsh, Lecturer in AMCS](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Walsh%20Books%20Video.jpg?itok=QY340cjK)
Books for 2020 and Beyond: A Discussion with Dave Walsh, Lecturer in AMCS
![Americanist Dinner Forum: Faith, Hollywood, and Presidential Rhetoric Recorded October 27, 2020](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Presidential_podium_%2849564336691%29_2.jpg?itok=ZG4fD2LY)
Americanist Dinner Forum: Faith, Hollywood, and Presidential Rhetoric Recorded October 27, 2020
![Books for 2020 and Beyond: A Discussion with Karen Skinner, AMCS Academic Coordinator](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Skinner%20Books%20Video.jpg?itok=HtTlr2x-)
Books for 2020 and Beyond: A Discussion with Karen Skinner, AMCS Academic Coordinator
![Introduction to Our New Video Series: Books for 2020 and Beyond](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/books%20for%202020.jpg?itok=nHrIwFaO)
Introduction to Our New Video Series: Books for 2020 and Beyond
![Dr. Sari Altschuler - Americanist Dinner Forum 10/1/20](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Sari%20Altshculer.png?itok=9XIyV42R)
Dr. Sari Altschuler - Americanist Dinner Forum 10/1/20
![Poetry for all](https://humanities.wustl.edu/files/humanities/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Articles/jaredd-craig-HH4WBGNyltc-unsplash_0.jpg?itok=RoslKX3s)
Poetry for all
![Welcome Back! Welcome Home!](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/mcmillan%20hall.jpg?itok=Ys3-Ua_p)
Welcome Back! Welcome Home!
![Black Lives Matter. A message of solidarity from AMCS.](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/960x0_0.jpg?itok=WHmVpTw6)
Black Lives Matter. A message of solidarity from AMCS.
![AMCS Postdoc Megan Steigerwald Ille Appointed Assistant Professor of Musicology at UC College-Conservatory of Music](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/AMCS_Steigerwald%20Ille_M-1277112_2.jpg?itok=O-Se2Fk2)
AMCS Postdoc Megan Steigerwald Ille Appointed Assistant Professor of Musicology at UC College-Conservatory of Music
![Environmental Studies Across the Arts and Sciences: Reflecting on a Presentation by Professor Susan Scott Parrish and Dean Barbara Schaal](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/AMCS_Enviro_Lecture_P1388583.jpg?itok=lt4YUrck)
Environmental Studies Across the Arts and Sciences: Reflecting on a Presentation by Professor Susan Scott Parrish and Dean Barbara Schaal
![Our Voices, Our Histories](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/joy%20cover_2.jpg?itok=4onKUlmK)
Our Voices, Our Histories
![Wilkins and Martin win Grant to Explore Religious Values and Public Virtue](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Lerone_0.jpg?itok=Mjs1jSuL)
Wilkins and Martin win Grant to Explore Religious Values and Public Virtue
The Good Internet is History
![The Common Reader presents "James Baldwin & American Democracy" with Introduction by Iver Bernstein and Katherine C. Mooney](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/BaldwinStampIntroII_0.jpg?itok=vxow7mbw)
The Common Reader presents "James Baldwin & American Democracy" with Introduction by Iver Bernstein and Katherine C. Mooney
![Sports: An American Obsession](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/noah_1.jpg?itok=Ia9MoQS5)
Sports: An American Obsession
![Terri Williams](https://ucollege.wustl.edu/files/ucollege/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/photographs/people/students/Screen%20Shot%202019-09-17%20at%201.56.04%20PM.png?itok=Yjn5gE9h)
Terri Williams
![AMCS Spring 2019 Research Colloquium](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/research%20colloquium_2.jpg?itok=a06IF3RZ)
AMCS Spring 2019 Research Colloquium
Lynne Cooper Harvey Writing Prize Winners
![Finding a Path from AMCS to Grad School by Kierstan Carter (AMCS 2016)](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Finding a Path from AMCS to Grad School by Kierstan Carter (AMCS 2016)
![Straight to the Source: Archives and AMCS](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/dubin_thumb.png?itok=pRLyhUHY)
Straight to the Source: Archives and AMCS
![A Reflection on the AMCS course, On Location Portland Beyond Portlandia: Creative Cities and the New Economy](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/steinberg_thumb.png?itok=ZbZJRSvq)
A Reflection on the AMCS course, On Location Portland Beyond Portlandia: Creative Cities and the New Economy
![AMCS to PBS: Research and Storytelling in Action](https://amcs.wustl.edu/files/amcs/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/gordon_thumb.png?itok=mTYvFSuw)