The first entry in our Author Reflections series comes from Matt Delmont, author of The Nicest Kids in Town. In The Nicest Kids in Town, Matt deftly places the TV show American …
Read More >Far be it for me to seem like I’m bragging, so here’s our history editor, Niels Hooper, with the good news: Dear all, UC Press has won 4 of the major prizes …
Read More >Before I begin, I’m going to ask y’all a question as you read through this post: What are you looking for in a podcast? [podcast]https://www.ucpress.edu/content/podcasts/11934.mp3[/podcast] First up, we have The Art of …
Read More >Lu Chuan’s 2009 film, City of Life and Death, which opened in New York last week, is a fictionalized telling of the Rape of Nanjing. Though the massacre has been downplayed in …
Read More >We are pleased to announce that W. Joseph Campbell has received the Sigma Delta Chi Award in Research from the Society of Professional Journalists for Getting it Wrong: Ten of the Greatest …
Read More >Last week, KPFA’s Against the Grain interviewed UC Press author Daniel Martinez HoSang about California’s fiscal crisis and the false narrative that economic hardship in the state is something new. In the …
Read More >In his latest blog post, W. Joseph Campbell undertakes the Sisyphean task of discrediting yet another media myth: the notion that the Washington Post was vital to the outcome of Watergate. This widely …
Read More >As Japan’s nuclear crisis continues to unfold, many are considering the lessons from Three Mile Island, America’s worst nuclear accident. The Washington Post recently interviewed J. Samuel Walker, a Nuclear Regulatory Commission …
Read More >W. Joseph Campbell, author of Getting It Wrong, responds to a review by Dr. Jeannette McVicker in his latest blog post. JHistory, the listserv devoted to issues in journalism history, posted an …
Read More >Scott Christianson revisits the issue of supposedly “humane” execution in his latest interview with KNews Radio. Christianson, the author of The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber, …
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