Excerpted from American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford by Roland De Wolk The origins of the Stanford campus and the Silicon Valley it has incubated, borne, and sustained could not …
Read More >Congratulations are in order for Pacific Historical Review and three of its contributors who are being honored this week with awards from the Western History Association. This year’s WHA Awards (for which …
Read More >UC Press is thrilled to share that UCLA professor and UC Press author Kelly Lytle Hernández has been named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow. Distributed annually since 1981, the MacArthur Fellowship includes a …
Read More >“The exhibition catalog fairly glows with transcendent images, many of which are nominally landscapes that are less descriptive than visionary reactions to the natural world.” —Charles Desmarais, San Francisco Chronicle Chiura Obata …
Read More >We are pleased to introduce Mary Ann Irwin, incoming editor of the journal California History. She is an independent scholar based in Oakland, California. Irwin received her Bachelor of Arts in United …
Read More >We are honored to announce that Tyler Green and his book Carleton Watkins: Making the West American have won the 2018 California Book Awards‘s Gold Medal for Contribution to Publishing. The medal …
Read More >In Promontory, Utah, a dusty backwater town in the desert, America’s industrial nationalism had been secured for the decades to come.
Read More >As westward expansion was taking place on many fronts, the still-nascent technology of photography helped bring the West’s fabled landscapes, impossible-sounding stories, and regional discoveries to life for most Americans.
Read More >The story of the Transcontinental Railroad cannot be told without recognizing the workers whose labor helped turn the nation’s dreams of a continental empire into a reality.
Read More >By Genevieve Carpio, author of Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race Since the resignation of Kirstjen Nielson as the Secretary of Homeland Security in early April, many have …
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