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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
Q&A with Tisa Wenger, Guest Editor of the Pacific Historical Review special issue, “Religion in the Nineteenth-Century American West”
Nov 01 2023
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 important exce
What Yosaku Imada’s Failed Escape of 1893 Shows Us About U.S. Imperialism
Mar 13 2023
By Christen T. Sasaki, author of Pacific Confluence: Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘iTypically, the history of U.S. empire is told as a story of inevitable expansion. Within this narrative, the U.S. occupation of Hawaiʻi and the militarized nature of everyday life in the is
#SHAFR2022: UC Press Journals Offer Free Online Content
Jun 15 2022
As the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations convenes this week in New Orleans, UC Press is pleased to remove the paywall from select journal content that we think will be of interest to SHAFR members and conference attendees. Pacific Historical ReviewPacific Historica
How American Deportation Trains Represent a Century of American Immigration Policy
Apr 01 2022
By Ethan Blue, author of The Deportation Express: A History of America through Forced RemovalThe possibility of expedited resettlement in the US for some of the millions of Ukrainians displaced by the ongoing Russian invasion offers an example of how the United States and other wealthy nations m
A Black History (Virtual) Tour of New York City
Feb 25 2022
Welcome to the virtual tour of A People’s Guide to New York City! Unlike traditional guidebooks that highlight the glitz, glamor, consumption, and spectacle of cities, often at the expense of people of color, immigrants, the working class, and LGBTQ communities, A People’s Guide to NYC offers an alt
Pacific Historical Review Announces First Double Award Winner
Aug 11 2021
Pacific Historical Review is congratulating Yu Tokunaga, Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, who has won both the W. Turrentine Jackson (Article) Prize and the Louis Knott Memorial Award for his article, "Japanese Farmers, Mexican Workers, an
Interview with MacArthur Fellow, Natalia Molina
Apr 14 2021
Photo credit: Mike GlierAs a professor American studies and ethnicity at USC, Natalia Molina has spent her career studying race, citizenship, and the experiences of immigrants in the U.S. Last year, Molina was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in honor of her “revealing how narratives of racial dif
Watch: Interview with Asian American Artist-Activist Nobuko Miyamoto, From Internment to Liberation
Apr 08 2021
A veteran of both Broadway and the protest line, Nobuko Miyamoto is an iconic Asian American artist and activist. Growing up in the 1940s as a third-generation Japanese American "without a song of my own," she found her voice in the 1960s through the revolutionary movements occurring in the U.S. and
How American Emigrants in Britain Defined the National Image
Feb 12 2021
By Stephen Tuffnell, author of Made in Britain: Emigration and Nation in Nineteenth-Century AmericaLondon’s underground map is now globally ubiquitous. Part electrical schematic, part Mondrian neo-plasticism it is perhaps one of the city’s most recognisable cultural artefacts. T-shirts, frid