Kathleen M. Blee is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. Blee’s book, Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920’s, was first published with critical acclaim in …
Read More >We are pleased to announce that Episode 10 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In January’s episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews two journalists. First, he …
Read More >The Nation‘s blog The Beat listed Peter Linebaugh’s The Magna Carta Manifesto as one of it’s 2008 Most Valuable Progressives (MVPs), calling it “the year’s most lyrical and necessary book on liberty”. …
Read More >You don’t see them very often, but California has more kinds of owls than you might realize. Fifteen species in fact, give or take a few. This uncertainty makes a lot of …
Read More >We are pleased to announce that Episode 9 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In December’s episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews two English professors, and …
Read More >Butterflies are such a common sight that we can be excused for thinking we understand these beautiful insects. They fly around on big floppy wings, visit flowers, and their larvae are called …
Read More >Galls are something you can be forgiven for overlooking, but they’re an important and surprisingly common feature of the natural world. In fact, gall expert Ron Russo has found as many as …
Read More >Winter is a special time in one of California’s most distinctive and widespread plant communities. Whether you travel to the dusty hillsides of southern California, to the fog drenched slopes of the …
Read More >Congratulations to historians and UC Press authors Peter Brown and Romila Thapar, who are joint winners of the 2008 Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Humanity. The prize of …
Read More >Beetles may be California’s most exuberant expression of life. Over 7000 species have been discovered in California and many more await discovery. Beetles are fascinating to study because they have so many …
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