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UC Press Launches Animal History, Documenting the Histories of Animals and Human-Animal Relationships
Aug 08 2024
Animal History publishes cutting-edge historical research on the histories of animals and human-animal relationships, documenting the impacts animals have had on global histories, cultures, languages, technologies, and environments as well as the impacts that humans have had on animals and their pas
Read MoreRacial Diversity and Belonging in Hawaiian History
Jul 31 2024
The annual conference of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (PCB-AHA) is being held from July 31-August 2, 2024, on the campus of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. In light of the conference's location, the editors of the PCB-AHA's official journal, the Pacific Historic
Read MoreSpecial issue on Feminist Histories is now available from Pacific Historical Review
Jul 23 2024
The summer issue of Pacific Historical Review is a special issue devoted to the theme of Feminist Histories. The special issue, which is temporarily available paywall-free, includes research articles, a forum on feminist history methods, and a response from historian Estelle B. Freedman. At PHR’s ed
Read MoreNo Age Limit for Justice: A Q&A with Jennifer Robin Terry, winner of the 2024 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize
Jul 08 2024
Jennifer Robin TerryThis year's Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize was awarded to Jennifer Robin Terry for her article, "Niños por la causa: Child Activists and the United Farm Workers Movement, 1965–1975," published in Pacific Historical Review. Drawing on a wide variety of
Read MoreAn Interview with Yvette J. Saavedra, winner of the Antonia I. Castañeda Prize
Jun 12 2024
Every year the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) awards the Antonia I. Castañeda Prize to recognize historical scholarship that examines the intersections of class, race, gender, and sexuality, as it relates to Chicana/Latina and/or Native/Indigenous women. This year, hist
Read MoreAnimal History is now open for submissions
Nov 11 2023
UC Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Animal History, a journal of historical research into animals and human-animal relationships.
Read MoreQ&A with Tisa Wenger, Guest Editor of the Pacific Historical Review special issue, “Religion in the Nineteenth-Century American West”
Nov 01 2023
Many readers may not think of the American West as a particularly religious place. What do we gain by paying attention to the role of religion in its history?It is true that the topic of religion rarely comes up in standard narratives of U.S. western history (Of course there a few important exce
Read More100 Years after Thind: An Ethnic Studies Review Special Issue
Sep 15 2023
COURT RULES HINDU NOT A 'WHITE PERSON'; Bars High Caste Native of India From Naturalization as an American Citizen.
Read MoreReckoning with Our Past: California State Parks and the Dark Side of the Conservation Movement
Aug 22 2023
by David G. McIntosh with Rena M. HeinrichTPH's cover shows the removal of the boulder and plaque memorializing eugenicist Madison Grant.The Public Historian's new special issue “Reckoning with Our Past: California State Parks and the Dark Side of the Conservation Movement,” examines a colla
Read MoreAsian Immigrants Chasing – and Defending – the Suburban American Dream
Mar 28 2023
By James Zarsadiaz, author of Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A.Today, notions of an urban and liberal Asian America continue to prevail, even though Asian Americans are the most suburbanized people of color and have been among the most vocal critics of
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