Out today, Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis is the first in-depth biography of Sam Francis, the legendary American abstract painter who broke all the rules in his …
Read More >As we convene virtually for this year’s conference of the American Studies Association, we invite you to read the current issues of the following journals for free from the comfort of your …
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 September 2021. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by …
Read More >By William J. Bauer, Jr., author of “Reclaiming Alcatraz: The Legacies and Continuities of the American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island, 1971–2021” published in the current issue of California History and coauthor, with Damon …
Read More >Pacific Historical Review is congratulating Yu Tokunaga, Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, who has won both the W. Turrentine Jackson (Article) Prize and the Louis …
Read More >By David Carle, author of Introduction to Fire in California, Second Edition The following post is an adapted excerpt from Introduction to Fire in California, Second Edition Could your house survive without …
Read More >Not Yo’ Butterfly is the intimate and unflinching life story of Nobuko Miyamoto—artist, activist, and mother. Beginning with the harrowing early years of her life as a Japanese American child navigating a fearful …
Read More >We’re marking the 2021 virtual conference of the Latin American Studies Association by offering a selection of free content from UC Press journals. Current History, the oldest publication devoted exclusively to international …
Read More >We’re pleased to announce that Dr. Diane M.T. North’s article, “California and the 1918–1920 Influenza Pandemic,” published in California History (Vol. 97, No. 3, August [Fall] 2020), has won the Western Association of …
Read More >For National Park Week, UC Press is highlighting books that give us new ways of understanding and seeing our national parks. These titles explore how our national parks came to be and …
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