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We're pleased to announce that Dr. Diane M.T. North's article, "California and the 1918–1920 Influenza Pandemic," published in California History (Vol. 97, No. 3, August [Fall] 2020), has won the Western Association of Women Historians' (WAWH) Judith Lee Ridge prize for the best history article publ

We've removed the paywall from Asian Survey's annual year-in-review issue which looks back at the biggest stories concerning Asia in 2020, a year during which the COVID-19 pandemic and a trade dispute between the United States and China dominated the headlines. As the world continues to grapple with

Anirudh KrishnaAnirudh Krishna’s essay “The Poorest After the Pandemic” is featured in Current History’s November special issue on the pandemic’s global ramifications. Krishna is the Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University. His research investigates

By Carole Joffe, author of Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in AmericaI was recently asked to write a blog piece on abortion care during the pandemic for the website of the Women’s Media Center. The WMC was founded in 2005 by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem a

Advances in Global Health is an open-access, online-only journal from University of California Press and the UC Global Health Institute, which seeks to take a new approach to publishing research in the field of global health by aligning the journal with several of the United Nations Sustainable Deve

The global coronavirus pandemic has already affected most of the planet in innumerable ways. Beyond its devastating human health toll, we are witnessing atmospheric, resource use, ecological, cultural, economic, and political consequences materializing in many places and at a scale that is unprecede

With communities, states, and nations taking action to defend themselves from the most dangerous fast-moving pandemic in a century, we are reminded of the government's role in public health emergency preparedness and response. In this excerpt from Lawrence O. Gostin and Lindsay F. Wiley's Public Hea

In recognition of the impact of coronavirus on campus instruction and the rise of unplanned distance learning, University of California Press is pleased to make all of our online journals content free to all through June, 2020.

by Sarah Jaquette Ray, author of A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming PlanetIt’s been a week of total chaos. As the chair of the environmental studies department at Humboldt State, I’ve been stressed about assuaging students’ worries about disrupted classes, whet

As the public health crisis wrought by COVID-19 continues to upend the everyday life of communities, families, and individuals throughout the globe, not all of the challenges that lie before us are as novel as the coronavirus.As two UC Press authors specializing in race in America explain, there