As part of our mission to advance knowledge and drive change in our world, we at UC Press are excited to recognize Banned Books Week, a celebration of intellectual freedom and the freedom …
Read More >by Kate Palmer Albers, author of Uncertain Histories: Accumulation, Inaccessibility, and Doubt in Contemporary Photography This guest post is part of a series for World Photo Day. Some of our authors with recent …
Read More >by Martin A. Berger, author of Freedom Now!: Forgotten Photographs of the Civil Rights Struggle This guest post is part of a series for World Photo Day. Some of our authors with …
Read More >UC Press will be participating in the first-ever Bay Area Book Festival on the weekend of June 6th and 7th. Not only will we have a table on-site where we’ll be selling …
Read More >By Virginia Scharff This guest post is published in advance of the Organization of American Historians conference in St. Louis. UC Press authors share their research and stories that reflect on this …
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 >Loren Kajikawa, author of Sounding Race in Rap Songs, gears up for this Sunday’s Grammy Awards by pondering the racial and social politics of white Australian rapper Iggy Azalea’s nominations (Best Rap Album among them). Will …
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 >by David G. Hackett This guest post is part of a series leading up to the upcoming joint meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society for Biblical Literature in San Diego. Eight of …
Read More >In Great Depression-era America, our federal government invested billions of dollars in New Deal work projects through the Works Progress Administration (later referred to as the Work Projects Administration, or WPA). With …
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