Updated May 26, 2021
This week for #LASA2021, we’re proud to be celebrating the accomplishments of Jessica Graham, author of Shifting the Meaning of Democracy: Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil. The book has won the Latin American Studies Association’s 2021 Br...
“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...
As part of our ongoing Editor Spotlight Series, we connected with UC Press Executive Editor Niels Hooper to talk about his History, American Studies, and Middle East Studies lists, and how our program has developed over the time he’s worked at the Press. Niels also shares his journey from...
Photo credit: Mike Glier
As 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...
By William J. Bauer Jr., co-author of We Are the Land: A History of Native California
This guest post is part of our #OAH2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more and get 40% off the book.
In late April 2020, my co-author, Damon Akins, and I submitted the f...
This post is part of our Editor Spotlight Series.
For this year’s virtual American Historical Association conference, we connected with UC Press Premodern World History Senior Editor Eric Schmidt to talk about our program and what new projects he’s most excited about. Eric also shar...
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 Stephen Tuffnell, author of Made in Britain: Emigration and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America
London’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-s...
By Christine Philliou, author of Turkey: A Past Against History
Imagine living in a place where the political elite is deeply divided within itself. Contradictions between constitutionalism and empire are coming into violent conflict, seemingly on a daily basis. “Minority” groups w...
By Christy Thornton, author of Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy
Who gets to govern the global economy? In the twentieth century, this was a key question for political figures and experts in law and economics, who came together repeatedly to...