2011-2012
Douglas Egerton, Le Moyne College, "The Wars of Reconstruction" (March 13, 2012)
Heather Thompson, Temple University, "Mass Incarceration and the Unmaking of Postwar America" (February 10, 2012)
Jon Wells, Temple University, "'Our Dearest Rights and Liberties': The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850" (February 9, 2012)
Stephen Robinson, Southampton University, "Daniel Webster Davis and Black Protest in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1915" (January 17, 2012)
2010-2011
Michael Foley, University of Sheffield: "Johnny Cash in Vietnam" (March 15, 2011)
Jarod Roll, University of Sussex: "A Labor History of 'We Shall Overcome'" (March 1, 2011)
J. William Harris, University of New Hampshire: "The Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah: A Tale of Slavery, Race, and the American Revolution" (February 15, 2011)
2009-2010
Zoe Hyman, University of Sussex: "The Foreign Policy of Segregationists: Class, Gender and Scientific Racism in the American South and South Africa" (March 2, 2010)
Nancy Hewitt and Steven Lawson, Rutgers University: "The Long and the Short of It: The Women's Suffrage and Civil Rights Movements" (February 25, 2010)
Henry Knight, University of Sussex: "'Savages of Southern Sunshine': Representations of the Seminoles in the Selling of Florida, 1880-1930" (January 26, 2010)
Erik Mathisen, University of Sussex: "Pledging Allegiance: Ideas about the State in Civil War Mississippi" (November 3, 2009)
Timothy Stanley, Royal Holloway: "Trade, Taxes, and Pornography: Pat Buchanan and the 1992 New Hampshire Republican Presidential Primary" (October 27, 2009)
2008-2009
Joseph Crespino, Emory University: "Strom Thurmond and the Long Civil Rights Countermovement" (May 13, 2009)
Carole Emberton, University of Buffalo: "Hanging Henry Wirz: Violence and Redemption after the Civil War" (April 20, 2009)
Betty Wood, University of Cambridge: "Rumour, 'Race,' and the Coming of the American Revolution" (March 17, 2009)
David Brown, Manchester University: "From 'Lubberland' to 'Rag Tag and Bob Tail': Conceptualising Poor Whites in the Antebellum South" (March 3, 2009)
Bruce Baker, Royal Holloway University: "Browns Ferry Blues: Military Justice, Freedpeople's Testimony, and the Contest Over the End of the Civil War" (February 11, 2009)
Andrew Warnes, University of Leeds: "Savage Barbecue: Race, Culture, and the Invention of America's First Food" (January 27, 2009)
Anthony Stanonis, Queen's University Belfast: "The Triumph of Epicure: A Global History of New Orleans Culinary Tourism" (November 4, 2008)
2007-2008
William Link, University of Florida: "Jesse Helms and the Politics of Race, 1972-1990" (May 20, 2008)
Robert Cook, University of Sussex: "William P. Fessenden and the Failure of Reconstruction" (May 13, 2008)
J. Mills Thornton, University of Michigan: "Segregation and the City: The Structure of White Supremacy in Mid-Twentieth Century Alabama" (April 22, 2008)
Simon Wendt, University of Heidelberg: "'This Nonviolent Stuff ain't No Good. It'll Get Ya Killed': Armed Self-Defense and the Civil Rights Movement" (February 26, 2008)
Virginia Laas, Missouri Southern State University: "Missouri's Uncivil War: Guerrilla Warfare in the Border South" (February 19, 2008)
Diana Paton, University of Newcastle: "Experiencing Pronatalism in the Anglophone Caribbean" (February 12, 2008)