UC Press is excited to announce the forthcoming publication of Animal History, a quarterly, online journal from the editorial team of historians Thomas Aiello (Valdosta State University), Susan Nance (University of Guelph), and Daniel Vandersommers (University of Dayton). Animal History w...
The annual conference of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (PCB-AHA) is being held from July 31-August 2, 2024, on the campus of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. In light of the conference’s location, the editors of the PCB-AHA’s official journal, the P...
The summer issue of Pacific Historical Review is a special issue devoted to the theme of Feminist Histories. The special issue, which is temporarily available paywall-free, includes research articles, a forum on feminist history methods, and a response from historian Estelle B. Freedma...
Jennifer Robin Terry
This year’s Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize was awarded to Jennifer Robin Terry for her article, “Niños por la causa: Child Activists and the United Farm Workers Movement, 1965–1975,” published in Pacific Historical Review. Drawing on a wide v...
Every year the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) awards the Antonia I. Castañeda Prize to recognize historical scholarship that examines the intersections of class, race, gender, and sexuality, as it relates to Chicana/Latina and/or Native/Indigenous women. ...
UC Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Animal History, a journal of historical research into animals and human-animal relationships. Animal History’s inaugural volume will publish in 2025, and the journal is now open for manuscript submissions.
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Many readers may not think of the American West as a particularly religious place. What do we gain by paying attention to the role of religion in its history?
It is true that the topic of religion rarely comes up in standard narratives of U.S. western history (Of course there a few ...
COURT RULES HINDU NOT A ‘WHITE PERSON’; Bars High Caste Native of India From Naturalization as an American Citizen.
–NY Times, February 20, 1923
Photograph of Bhagat Singh Thind in his U.S. Army Uniform, from 1918. Thind enlisted in the U.S. Army, and trained at Camp Lewis, Washington...
by David G. McIntosh with Rena M. Heinrich
TPH‘s cover shows the removal of the boulder and plaque memorializing eugenicist Madison Grant.
The Public Historian’s new special issue “Reckoning with Our Past: California State Parks and the Dark Side of the Conservation Movement,” examin...
By James Zarsadiaz, author of Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A.
Today, notions of an urban and liberal Asian America continue to prevail, even though Asian Americans are the most suburbanized people of color and have been among the most vocal...