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Racial Diversity and Belonging in Hawaiian History

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 Pacific Historic
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Special issue on Feminist Histories is now available from Pacific Historical Review

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. Freedman. At PHR’s ed
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Q&A with Matthew Morrison, author of Blacksound

Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy (the first original form of American popular music) and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this namesake book, Matthew D. Morrison develops the concept o
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

by Mark Twain (Author), Harriet E. Smith (Editor), and 7 more
Jun 2026

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

by Mark Twain (Author), Benjamin Griffin (Editor), and 6 more
Jun 2026

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

by Mark Twain (Author), Harriet E. Smith (Editor), and 6 more
Jun 2026

The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State

by Emmaia Gelman (Author)
Jun 2026

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Reading Black Reconstruction Today

by Yousuf Al-Bulushi (Editor), Geo Maher (Editor), and 1 more
Aug 2026
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Open Access

How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race

by Amy Coddington (Author)
Jul 2024
Open Access
Open Access