By William T. Taylor, author of Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human HistoryIn our world today, it’s pretty unusual to see a horse riding down the street. In most cities and towns around the world, horses have retreated to the edges of daily life – appearing more often in sporting events or novelty t...
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...
By Xaq Frohlich, author of From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age
This post was originally published on The Conversation.
The Nutrition Facts label, that black and white information box found on nearly every packaged food product in the U.S. since 199...
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...
by Valeria Manzano
Twenty-five years ago, University of California Press published Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture by Eric Zolov. The book traced Mexican rock and roll from the 1950s, when it was heavily influenced by U.S. bands, to the emergence of a full-blow...
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. ...
Offshore Attachments reveals how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in the global oil economy. By the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch islands of Curaçao and Aruba housed the world’s largest oil refineries. To bolster this massive ind...
By Eline van Ommen, author of Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War
When I submitted my dissertation in 2019, my supervisor gave me the mug that had been on her desk for years. Printed on it were the red and black silhouettes of people waving...