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UC Press is happy to share that we have partnered with The Booksmith in San Francisco, CA to bring a series of virtual author events to life. Entitled UC Press Now: Urgent Conversations, the series examines the most pressing issues currently facing the United States—from forced labor during COVID-19

For Juneteenth—today's holiday commemorating Union army general Gordon Granger's reading of federal orders in Galveston, Texas on June 19th, 1865, proclaiming that Texan slaves were free (in light of the fact that the Emancipation Proclamation had declared all slaves free two years prior)— UC Press

In 1915, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a pioneering black intellectual and the son of former slaves, recognizing “the dearth of information on the accomplishments of blacks . . . founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, now called the Association for the Study of African American Li

UC Press is pleased to share that four of our titles have been designated Outstanding Academic Titles for 2019 by CHOICE.Awarded annually in January, the award is given to approximately 10% of the 6,000 titles reviewed by CHOICE in a given year. CHOICE editors consider several factors in the

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.