California History is pleased to announce that Amanda Marie Martinez’s “Suburban Cowboy: Country Music, Punk, and the Struggle over Space in Orange County, 1978–1981” (California History, vol. 98, no. 1, 83-97) has won the journal’s Richard J. Orsi prize, for the best article publishe...
For the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, we reached out to scholar Adria Imada to discuss her new book, An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration.
Adria L. Imada is Professor of History at University of Calif...
By Nayan Shah, author of Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger StrikesIn February 1989, I traveled to Durban, South Africa. I was twenty-two years old and had just graduated from Swarthmore college. I was visiting apartheid South Africa on a Thomas J. Watson fellowship to study relig...
By Moon-Ho Jung, author of Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State
In the wake of very visible hate crimes against Asian Americans this past year, President Joe Biden vowed to combat racism to make America live up to its repu...
We’re proud to share that author Jennifer Holland has won been awarded three prestigious awards from the Western History Association for her book, Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement!
The book won the Armitage-Jameson Prize for best scholarly book in western w...
September 27th, 2021 marks the 200-year anniversary of the day Mexico achieved independence. In honor of the date, we reached out to Silvia Marina Arrom to discuss her new book, La Güera Rodríguez: The Life and Legends of a Mexican Independence Heroine.
María Ignacia Rodríguez de Vela...
“When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters in this country, I often think of Boyle Heights.” —George J. Sánchez
In this virtual conversation, acclaimed scholar George Sanchez, author of Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Fut...
We’re excited to share our forthcoming medieval / early modern world textbook, The Sea in the Middle, and the accompanying sourcebook, Texts from the Middle! Both books are expected to publish in Fall 2022.
The Sea in the Middle presents an original and revisionist narrative of the...
By William B. Taylor, author of Fugitive Freedom: The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors in Late Colonial Mexico
I didn’t plan to write Fugitive Freedom. This was partly because the project that preceded it seemed endless. But when I finally finished Theater of a Thousand Wonders: A His...