UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our May 2023 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the …
Read More >“For me, it is about the pain of living inequality; it is about a fire inside to build and create a more just world collectively.”
Read More >Recognizing and honoring the unique and different aspects of being a mother in 2023 While Mother’s Day is a time for mothers across the globe to be celebrated, it is equally important …
Read More >NCPH 2023, with the theme “To Be Determined,” was held in Atlanta, Georgia, April 12-15, 2023. In conjunction with the conference, the editors of The Public Historian curated a list of previously …
Read More >Credited with popularizing the label “ex-wife” in 1929, Ursula Parrott wrote provocatively about divorcées, career women, single mothers, work-life balance, and a host of new challenges facing modern women. Her best sellers, …
Read More >By James Zarsadiaz, author of Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A. Today, notions of an urban and liberal Asian America continue to prevail, even though Asian Americans …
Read More >By Matthew Frye Jacobson, author of Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era: A Cultural History It has been supremely challenging, in the face of the …
Read More >By David A. Banks, author of The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America We’ve all seen headlines featuring interesting commentary on U.S. cities’ images or brands. In the lead …
Read More >UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our February 2023 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the …
Read More >California History is pleased to announce the winner of the Richard J. Orsi prize for the best article published in the journal in 2022. The committee unanimously selected Warren C. Wood’s “S. …
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