America Now! 1976 And All That: Remembering Remembering the American Revolution

He is the author of American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War II (Cambridge UP, 2022), which won the 2023 Choice 360 Award for the best academic title in music. His concluding volume, American Song and Struggle from World War II to MAGA, is in press for an October 2026 publication. Recognized internationally as the world’s leading authority on Woody Guthrie, Kaufman has written three books on the American balladeer: Woody Guthrie, American Radical (2011), Woody Guthrie’s Modern World Blues (2017), and Mapping Woody Guthrie (2019). His other works include Singing for Peace: Antiwar Songs in American History (co-authored with Ronald D. Cohen, 2015), American Culture in the 1970s (2009), and The Civil War in American Culture (2006).

He is also the operational director for the Georgian Papers Programme. He has a recent article on the 1776 Pennsylvania constitution in the Journal of Early American History, and a forthcoming chapter in the festschrift volume for Arthur Burns about the British civil list 1760 to 1837.

Her research focuses on modern and contemporary American and British literature, visual culture, music and performance. She recently completed her PhD in English at the University of Cambridge and has since held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of London and the University of Leeds. Her writing has been published in numerous academic journals, including English Studies in Africa and Comparative Drama and her monograph, entitled The New York Poetry-Video Revolution, is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press.