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. …
Read More >California History recently published its second special issue on the history of African Americans in California. This issue arrived in a moment of profound reckoning on racial injustice broadly, from police violence …
Read More >Upcoming books exploring Black history Throughout the month of February, UC Press will highlight books we have had the privilege to publish. Books featured raise Black voices, highlight the works of Black …
Read More >Is the presidency too powerful? Tracing the evolution of presidential power, this reading list provides the history, laws, and politics behind how wide-ranging presidential powers can and should be.
Read More >Looking to the past and exploring the present Throughout the month of February, UC Press will highlight books we have had the privilege to publish. Books featured raise Black voices, highlight the …
Read More >By Tatiana Reinoza, co-editor of Self Help Graphics at Fifty: A Cornerstone of Latinx Art and Collaborative Artmaking Throughout the last five decades, Self Help Graphics & Art has created an artist-centered …
Read More >Three Centuries of American Art in 1938 was the Museum of Modern Art’s first international exhibition. With over 750 artworks on view in Paris ranging from seventeenth-century colonial portraits to Mickey Mouse and …
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