By Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri, author of Beyond Orientalism: Ahmad ibn Qasim al-Hajari between Europe and North Africa When I first encountered the fascinating Moroccan polymath Ahmad ibn Qâsim al-Hajarî (c. 1569 – …
Read More >By Naomi Weiss, author of Seeing Theater: The Phenomenology of Classical Greek Drama The cover of Seeing Theater, thoughtfully designed by my late brother-in-law and artist David Palacios, offers a succinct visual …
Read More >By James Walvin, author of Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn It may seem odd for a historian of slavery to write a history of a popular hymn. In …
Read More >Winner of the 2022 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences, Merchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian …
Read More >UC Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Animal History, a journal of historical research into animals and human-animal relationships.
Read More >FirstGen scholar and author Jacek Blaskiewicz talks about his academic journey and new book “Fanfare for a City”
Read More >by Patricia Ventura and Edward K. Chan, co-authors of White Power and American Neoliberal Culture We didn’t set out to write a catalogue of horror—instead we stumbled upon these sadistic texts of …
Read More >Many readers may not think of the American West as a particularly religious place. What do we gain by paying attention to the role of religion in its history? It is true …
Read More >Orisanmi Burton describes his approach to writing his new book through a methodological approach he developed called archival war.
Read More >Melissa Ooten and Jason Sawyer present their alt-travel guide to Richmond and Central Virginia.
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