Taking the 2017 American Studies Association conference by storm the new series edited by past presidents of the ASA American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present offers short, timely books on the issues …
Read More >From searing critiques of power and wealth, to in-depth investigations of race, gender, and class to cultural histories of activism and social justice, these new releases will inspire the way you think …
Read More >Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars as much as any city in the nation. And, yet, few historians have attempted big-picture narratives of the city’s transformation over …
Read More >This interview was originally featured in Loyola University of Chicago’s Department of History blog, and has been reposted here with their kind permission in conjunction with the North American Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting in …
Read More >2017 marks the 800th anniversary of the Charter of the Forest, the scarcely-known companion to the Magna Carta, issued on November 6, 1217. Unlike the Magna Carta, which dealt with the rights …
Read More >We’re pleased to announce that Tyina Steptoe, author of Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City is the winner of the 2017 Western History Association W. Turrentine-Jackson Award for Best First …
Read More >by Sabine Frühstück, author of Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan In September 2016, the Twitter hashtag #tsukamotoyochien attracted a series of comments on Tokyo’s Tsukamoto kindergarten’s practices of …
Read More >The 2017 Western History Association convenes November 1-4 in San Diego, CA, and WHA members can save 40% on UC Press titles when they visit us at booth #28. Get an early look at …
Read More >“You can’t sit in against poverty. You can’t sit in against police brutality.” —Joshua Bloom “You have to dream a different world… The Party was totally committed to action.” —Waldo E. Martin …
Read More >by Paul D. Barclay, author of Outcasts of Empire: Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “Savage Border” 1874-1895 At UC Press, open access—the free, immediate, unrestricted, online access to peer-reviewed research and scholarly work—is …
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