by Marcia Yonemoto, author of The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan This guest post is published in conjunction with the Association for Asian Studies conference in Toronto. Check back regularly …
Read More >by George Dutton, author of A Vietnamese Moses: Philiphê Binh and the Geographies of Early Modern Catholicism This guest post is published in conjunction with the Association for Asian Studies conference in …
Read More >By James H. Johnson, author of Venice Incognito: Masks in the Serene Republic “Man is least himself when he speaks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell …
Read More >If you’re headed to the annual Organization of American Historians conference next month in New Orleans (April 6-9), be sure to visit UC Press at booth #219 for a 40% discount on …
Read More >by Lucas A. Powe Jr., author of The Fourth Estate and the Constitution: Freedom of the Press in America Two hundred fifty years ago William Blackstone wrote “the liberty of the press …
Read More >by Ahmed White, author of The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America Several weeks into Donald Trump’s presidency, millions of Americans …
Read More >In recognition of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, we observe his greatest, most lasting accomplishment: the abolition of slavery. Through this lens, we look at the historic and modern day slave trade to ask …
Read More >Last October marked the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, when, in 1966, college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton vowed to prevent police brutality against black …
Read More >by W. Joseph Campbell, author of 1995: The Year the Future Began PBS is set to air on Tuesday an “American Experience” documentary about the deadliest spasm of home-grown terrorism in U.S. …
Read More >With last Friday’s executive order on immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries, along with plans to continue construction of the barrier along the US-Mexico border moving forward, the current presidential administration has brought heightened attention to immigration …
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