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New from Pacific Historical Review: JFK's patrol torpedo boat, Japanese internment, Silicon Valley toxins, US-Thai relations, and Gabe Masao translations
Oct 14 2024
A preview of the new issue of Pacific Historical Review, which features articles in U.S. and Pacific history.
How a Slave Trader’s Hymn Became a Global Anthem
Dec 12 2023
By James Walvin, author of Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved HymnIt may seem odd for a historian of slavery to write a history of a popular hymn. In fact, the link between “Amazing Grace” and slavery is clear and fairly obvious: the author of “Amazing Grace,” John Newton, had bee
Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment
Aug 18 2020
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendement on August 18, 1920, UC Press is spotlighting Nine Women: Portraits from the American Radical Tradition by Judith Nies, which includes a chapter on Elizabeth Cady Stanton, organizer of the first Women's Rights Co
Fourth of July: Challenging Freedom
Jul 04 2020
This Independence Day—as our nation is grappling with radical upheaval around health equity, inequality, and necessary social change—UC Press has chosen to feature titles that challenge the traditional ideas of freedom in the United States. The following books range in topics from immigration to the
Watch: Naomi Paik on U.S. immigration and the abolitionist sanctuary movement
Jul 01 2020
Days after taking the White House, Donald Trump signed three executive orders—these authorized the Muslim Ban, the border wall, and ICE raids. These orders would define his administration’s xenophobic, racist, ableist, and patriarchal approach toward non-citizens. By all accounts, he embodies an ant
For OAH, Executive Editor Niels Hooper Shares Virtual Conference Highlights
Apr 08 2020
The Organization of American Historians annual conference has become ever-more interesting and important, and 2020's meeting promised to be especially so - focusing on histories of equality and inequality in an American Presidential election year. I am sad that we are not all in Washington DC now li
Celebrating Joe William Trotter, Jr. at the Heinz History Center
Sep 23 2019
On Sept. 11 , 2019, the Smithsonian-affiliated Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, PA hosted Carnegie Mellon University professor Joe William Trotter, Jr. for a celebration of his new book Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America.