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 Anne Marie Todd, author of Valley of Heart’s Delight: Environment and Sense of Place in the Santa Clara Valley The winter of 2023 has been especially soggy in the Santa Clara …
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 >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 >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 >By Yu Tokunaga, author of Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations “Lo voy a comprar 👏 Felicidades!!!” I recently received this comment from my Costa Rican friend after …
Read More >By Eric Porter, author of A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport For many people, airports may seem like alienating “nonplaces”—as anthropologist Marc Augé put …
Read More >UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are some of our recent award winners from October 2022. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by …
Read More >By UC Press Executive Editor Niels Hooper Over the summer, I drove from Truckee (which is on Washoe/Northern Paiute Land) down the Central Valley (which is land of multiple native peoples including …
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