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#WHA2020: Browse Titles for Courses
Oct 17 2020
Explore our groundbreaking books that facilitate teaching across disciplines. To request an exam copy, click on “Request an Exam or Desk Copy” on the book page, and this will take you to our distributor's site where you can order your copy.Shaped by the West: A History of North America,
Free Content Offer from UC Press’s History Journals for #WHA2020
Oct 15 2020
While we are not convening in person for this year's Western History Association conference, UC Press Journals invite you to explore our #WHA2020 Virtual Exhibit and to sample the selection of content below that we are making available for free online for a limited time.Pacific Historical Re
An Obstetrical Las Vegas: What Colorado’s 1967 Abortion Law Tells us About 2020 America
Oct 15 2020
By Jennifer L. Holland, author of Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion MovementThe 2020 edition of American politics is showing once again the power of a politized conservative minority —for whom legal abortion trumps all other issues. For these conservatives, abortion is murder, and
Author Spotlight: Interview with Owens Book Award Winner Genevieve Carpio, author of Collisions at the Crossroads
Oct 15 2020
This post is part of our #WHA2020 blog series. Learn more at our WHA virtual exhibit.We’re excited to announce that Genevieve Carpio has won the Western History Association’s 2020 Owens Book Award for Collisions at the Crossroads! As part of our virtual WHA 2020 conference blog series, we reache
Author Spotlight: Writing History from the West with Bill Deverell and Anne Hyde
Oct 14 2020
This post is part of our #WHA2020 blog series. Learn more at our WHA virtual exhibit.When scholars Bill Deverell and Anne Hyde first started working on Shaped by the West, they said it was mostly because they wanted to have a reason to work together and "have lunch on someone else's ticket."
#WHA2020: New and Notable in Western History
Oct 14 2020
We are thrilled to be publishing a number of new titles groundbreaking books in Western History. Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement by Jennifer L. Holland tells the story of one of the most successful political movements of the twentieth century: the grassroots campaign agains
#WHA2020: Meet with UC Press Editor Niels Hooper—Virtually
Oct 13 2020
Although we are unable to see you in person at this year’s Middle East Studies Association conference, we’d still love for you to “stop by the booth” and meet with us virtually. US History Editor, Niels Hooper, is taking proposals and Zoom appointments over the next couple of weeks.Niels Hooper,
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
How to Manage Climate Anxiety and Carry On: A Virtual Conversation with Sarah Jaquette Ray
Apr 22 2020
How can we effectively combat climate change while grappling with feelings of powerlessness and despair? This is one of the key questions author Sarah Jaquette Ray, professor of environmental studies at Humboldt State University, seeks to answer in her new book, A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety.