In 1882, the US passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, declaring a ten-year ban on labor immigration from China. It was the first major US law to limit immigration, and a marker of …
Read More >We are pleased to announce that Episode 21 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In this episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews Bryant Simon as he …
Read More >By Ariel Rosen My year abroad in the City of Lights and the violent aftermath of the election in Iran. At first glance, these two events may not seem to have much …
Read More >On June 4, Sophie Erskine of 3:AM Magazine interviewed Amiri Baraka about music, politics, the origins of his name, and controversial comments he has made in the past. Baraka is known as …
Read More >On April 30th, Brittany Shoot of Religion Dispatches, interviewed Eileen Luhr, author of Witnessing Suburbia: Conservatives and Christian Youth Culture (UC Press, January 2009). Below, are a couple of questions Luhr answered. …
Read More >University of California Press and The Mark Twain Project are pleased to announce the landmark publication of Mark Twain’s Autobiography. The book and companion website will be available in 2010 to coincide …
Read More >Charles Upchurch is Assistant Professor of History at Florida State University. He is also the author of Before Wilde: Sex between Men in Britain’s Age of Reform (UC Press, March 2009). In …
Read More >We are pleased to announce that Episode 15 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In this episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews Gary Okihiro as he …
Read More >On March 20, 2009, Leonard Lopate of the The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC New York Public Radio, interviewed Emil Draitser. Draitser, a professor of Russian at Hunter College of the City …
Read More >Michael Flower is Senior Research Scholar at Princeton University and editor, in collaboration with John Marincola, of Herodotus, Histories, Book IX, author of Theopompus of Chios: History and Rhetoric in the Fourth …
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