Described as a “fascinating and indispensable book” in a significant and extensive review by Christopher Knight in the Los Angeles Times yesterday, award-winning critic and historian Tyler Green will discuss his debut book, Carleton Watkins: Making the …
Read More >The Rim Fire. The Ferguson Fire. These and many others cause us to look and say “why?” Is it climate change? Fire suppression? Too little logging? Good answers require a broader perspective than just the trees …
Read More >Shaped by the West, Volume 1: A History of North America to 1877 Shaped by the West, Volume 2: A History of North America from 1850 by William Deverell & Anne F. …
Read More >Fire in California’s Ecosystems, Second Edition, Revised, edited by Jan W. van Wagtendonk, Neil G. Sugihara, Scott L. Stephens, Andrea E. Thode, Kevin E. Shaffer, and Jo Ann Fites-Kaufman, describes fire in detail—both as an integral natural process in …
Read More >Congratulations to the recipients of this year’s winners of the Pacific Historical Review Prizes. Prizes were awarded on Friday afternoon at the annual conference of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American …
Read More >Best known for his pictures of Yosemite Valley and the nearby Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias, Carleton Watkins made his first trip there in 1861 just as the Civil War was beginning. …
Read More >Steven Fradkin is a coastal ecologist and limnologist working at Lake Crescent Laboratory in Washington state’s Olympic National Park. He is co-author, with Jonathan Jones and Uta Passow (both at University of …
Read More >In honor of the annual conference of the Australian Historical Association, which is being held this week in Canberra, we have removed the paywall from the Pacific Historical Review‘s recent special issue, …
Read More >**Update: UC Press’s first issue of the Journal of Popular Music Studies has published. For a limited time, you can read the full issue online for free.** The first issue of the Journal …
Read More >Chiura Obata was one of the most significant Japanese American artists of the twentieth century. Chiura Obata: An American Modern, is a major retrospective of his work with an extensive traveling schedule. Appropriately, …
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