The American Historical Association is convening in Washington, DC for its 132nd annual meeting from January 4-7, 2018. The theme for this year’s conference is “Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in Global Perspective.” UC Press’s history journals are contributing to the conversation by making a selection of content speaking to this theme available for free for a limited time. Please follow the links below and share your comments on social media using #AHA18.
Pacific Historical Review Special Issue:
Alternative Wests: Rethinking Manifest Destiny
Guest Edited by Andrew C. Isenberg
The mid-nineteenth century territorial growth of the United States was complex and contradictory. Not only did Mexico, Britain, and Native Americans contest U.S. territorial objectives; so, too, did many within the United States and in some cases American western settlers themselves. The notion of manifest destiny reflects few of these complexities. Manifest destiny was a partisan idea that emerged in a context of division and uncertainty intended to overawe opponents of expansion. Only in the early twentieth century, as the United States had consolidated its hold on the North American West and was extending its power into the Caribbean and Pacific, did historians begin to describe manifest destiny as something that it never was in the nineteenth century: a consensus. To a significant extent, historians continue to rely on the idea to explain U.S. expansion. This Special Issue argues for returning a sense of context and contingency to the understanding of mid-nineteenth-century U.S. expansion. Read the special issue.
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences offers the following articles on the #AHA18 theme for you to read for free for a limited time:
Instruments of Science or Conquest: Neocolonialism and Modern American Astronomy
Leandra Swanner
Fellow Travelers and Traveling Fellows: The Intercontinental Shaping of Modern Mathematics in Mid-Twentieth Century Latin America
Michael J. Barany
Darwin and the Ethnologists: Liberal Racialism and the Geological Analogy
Suman Seth
Bred for the Race: Thoroughbred Breeding and Racial Science in the United States, 1900-1940
Brian Terrell
Visualizing ‘Race’ in the Eighteenth Century
Snait B. Missis
Master of the Master Gland: Choh Hao Li, the University of California, and Science, Migration, and Race
Benjamin C. Zulueta
Boom California invites you to read its series of articles on “Undocumented California.”
Undocumented Californians and the Future of the Golden State
Manuel Pastor
Regarding the Documents: Scanning the Mythology of ‘Documented’ California
Jason S. Sexton
California Dreaming? The Integration of Immigrants into American Society
Kevin R. Johnson
The Américas: A Novel of California Begun
David Kipen
On the Road to Opportunity: Racial Disparities in Obtaining an AB 60 Driver Licenses
Laura E. Enriquez, Daisy Vazquez Vera, and S. Karthick Ramakrishnan
California’s Opportunities for Undocumented Students: Are They Enough?
Tanya Golash-Boza and Zulema Valdez
Undocumented Emotional Intelligence: Learning from the Intellectual Investments of California’s Undergraduates
Ana Elizabeth Rosas
Lines and Fences: Writing and Rewriting the California Fence/Wall
Marcel Brousseau
Southern California Quarterly Special Virtual Issue:
Home Strategies: Class, Race, and Empowerment in 20th Century Los Angeles
The Southern California Quarterly, published continuously (under this and earlier titles) since 1884 by the Historical Society of Southern California, has touched repeatedly on the themes of housing development, discrimination, and empowerment. In this virtual issue, we present a sampling of its contributions on these themes. Read the virtual issue.
California History offers the following articles on the #AHA18 theme for you to read for free for a limited time:
Teaching Race in California History Beyond Domination and Diversity
Daniel Martinez HoSang
Victory Abroad, Disaster at Home: Environment, Race, and World War II Shipyard Production
Alistair W. Fortson
Language Education, Race, and the Remaking of American Citizenship in Los Angeles, 1900–1968
Zevi Gutfreund
But Why Glendale? A History of Armenian Immigration to Southern California
Daniel Fittante
Resisting Camelot: Race and Resistance to the San Fernando Valley Secession Movement
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman
The Public Historian Special Virtual Issue:
Monuments, Memory, Politics, and Our Publics
The Public Historian, the official journal of the National Council on Pubic History, shares a special virtual issue featuring dozen essays from the journal’s backlist, ranging across some twenty years, that illustrate the evolving historiography on the issue of monuments, memory, history, and heritage and broaden the discussion beyond the focus of the Civil War, Redemption, and resistance to the expansion of civil rights during the 1960s and 1970s.
