In a recent blog post, Mary Helen Spooner, author of The General’s Slow Retreat: Chile after Pinochet (UC Press, May 2011) sheds light on the exhumation of former Chilean president Salvador Allende’s …
Read More >In the video introduction to Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression, written by Dale Maharidge with photographs by Michael Williamson, Bruce Springsteen talks about how the authors inspired him …
Read More >In an incisive op-ed for the New York Times, Hans Lucht, author of the forthcoming book Darkness before Daybreak: African Migrants Living on the Margins in Southern Italy Today, highlights the perils …
Read More >In the latest UC Press podcast, Dale Maharidge, author of Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression, talks about his experiences reporting on working-class America for the last three decades. …
Read More >Distinguished author and archaeology scholar Lewis Binford died on Monday at age 79. UC Press published his last major work, Constructing Frames of Reference, which won the Society for American Archaeology’s book …
Read More >In this guest post, Mary Helen Spooner, author of The General’s Slow Retreat: Chile after Pinochet (UC Press, June 2011) sheds light on the chilling case of Professor Boris Weisfeiler, one of …
Read More >UC Press is pleased to announce that Joel Robbins has received the J. I. Staley Prize from the School of American Research for Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua …
Read More >What’s your favorite vintage? 2005? 2007? How about 4100 B.C.? That’s the year scientists have dated the earliest known winery, discovered in a cavern in Armenia. The international team of researchers, based …
Read More >Patrick McGovern, author of Uncorking the Past, accompanied the owners of Dogfish Head Brewery on their quest to create an ancient Egyptian beer on the Discovery Channel show “Brew Masters” last week. …
Read More >We’re pleased to announce that UC Press’s Native Tribes of North America map is now available digitally. The map displays the boundaries of hundreds of tribes across the continent, from the Eskimo …
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