How a Slave Trader’s Hymn Became a Global Anthem
By James Walvin, author of Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn It may seem odd for a historian of slavery to write a history of a popular hymn. In …
Read More >By James Walvin, author of Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn It may seem odd for a historian of slavery to write a history of a popular hymn. In …
Read More >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 …
Read More >By Christen T. Sasaki, author of Pacific Confluence: Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i Typically, the history of U.S. empire is told as a story of inevitable expansion. Within this narrative, …
Read More >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 …
Read More >By Ethan Blue, author of The Deportation Express: A History of America through Forced Removal The possibility of expedited resettlement in the US for some of the millions of Ukrainians displaced by …
Read More >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 …
Read More >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 …
Read More >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 …
Read More >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 …
Read More >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 …
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