By Susanna Rankin Bohme This guest post is published in advance of the American Society for Environmental History conference in Washington, DC. UC Press authors share their research and stories that reflect …
Read More >This Saturday, February 21 marks the 50th anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination. His untimely death came shortly after his public split with the Nation of Islam, when he was developing an international …
Read More >Remember life before the web? It’s now hard to imagine (or recollect, depending on your age) that a generation ago, in 1995, Sergey and Larry were just meeting at Stanford. (“Their mutual …
Read More >To celebrate Martin Luther King Day on Monday, January 19, Tenisha Hart Armstrong, Volume VII editor of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., curated a special selection of relevant photographs and a video that draw …
Read More >To acknowledge AHA’s theme this year of “History and the Other Disciplines” and to celebrate the publication of Teaching Big History, we offer this timeline. Click the image to enlarge:
Read More >Bring in the new year with University of California Press at the 2015 American Historical Association Annual Meeting. The meeting convenes January 2-5 in New York City. Please visit us at booth …
Read More >UC PRESS AUTHORS ON THE MEANING OF THE HOLIDAY Our authors share recipes, wine pairings, and stories about this November ritual, and explore the behind-the-scenes politics and assumptions that shape the holiday. …
Read More >David Lubin’s forthcoming book, Flags and Faces: The Visual Culture of America’s First World War, shows how American artists, photographers, and graphic designers helped shape public perceptions about World War I. In …
Read More >On Sunday, October 26 at the SF Jazz Center, Joshua Bloom and Waldo Martin received the 2014 American Book Award for Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party. The …
Read More >“To me, freedom of speech is something that represents the very dignity of what a human being is. . . . That’s what marks us off from the stones and the stars. You can …
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