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California History Announces Winner of Richard J. Orsi Prize
Jan 06 2022
California History is pleased to announce that Amanda Marie Martinez’s “Suburban Cowboy: Country Music, Punk, and the Struggle over Space in Orange County, 1978–1981” (California History, vol. 98, no. 1, 83-97) has won the journal's Richard J. Orsi prize, for the best article published in California
Q&A with Adria L. Imada, author of An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin
Jan 05 2022
For the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, we reached out to scholar Adria Imada to discuss her new book, An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration.Adria L. Imada is Professor of History at University of California, Irvine,
The Enduring Power of Hunger Strikes
Dec 20 2021
By Nayan Shah, author of Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger StrikesIn February 1989, I traveled to Durban, South Africa. I was twenty-two years old and had just graduated from Swarthmore college. I was visiting apartheid South Africa on a Thomas J. Watson fellowship to study religion and com
The Deeper History of Empire and White Supremacy Behind Anti-Asian Racism
Dec 17 2021
By Moon-Ho Jung, author of Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security StateIn the wake of very visible hate crimes against Asian Americans this past year, President Joe Biden vowed to combat racism to make America live up to its reputed ideals
Author spotlight: Q&A with Award-winning Author, Jennifer Holland
Oct 27 2021
We're proud to share that author Jennifer Holland has won been awarded three prestigious awards from the Western History Association for her book, Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement!The book won the Armitage-Jameson Prize for best scholarly book in western women’s and gend
Author Spotlight: Silvia Arrom on writing about the famous Mexican Independence Heroine La Güera Rodríguez
Sep 27 2021
September 27th, 2021 marks the 200-year anniversary of the day Mexico achieved independence. In honor of the date, we reached out to Silvia Marina Arrom to discuss her new book, La Güera Rodríguez: The Life and Legends of a Mexican Independence Heroine. María Ignacia Rodríguez de Velasco y Osori
Interview with George Sanchez, on the promise and history of Boyle Heights
Apr 15 2021
“When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters in this country, I often think of Boyle Heights.” —George J. SánchezIn this virtual conversation, acclaimed scholar George Sanchez, author of Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American
Teaching the Medieval as Mediterranean: Announcing New Textbook The Sea in the Middle
Feb 24 2021
We're excited to share our forthcoming medieval / early modern world textbook, The Sea in the Middle, and the accompanying sourcebook, Texts from the Middle! Both books are expected to publish in Fall 2022.The Sea in the Middle presents an original and revisionist narrative of the development of
Historian William Taylor Explains the Story Behind His Fascinating New Book on Vagabonds in Colonial Mexico
Jan 07 2021
By William B. Taylor, author of Fugitive Freedom: The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors in Late Colonial MexicoI didn’t plan to write Fugitive Freedom. This was partly because the project that preceded it seemed endless. But when I finally finished Theater of a Thousand Wonders: A History of Mir