By Roderick A. Ferguson, author of We Demand: The University and Student Protests This guest post is part of a series published in conjunction with the meeting of the American Studies Association in Denver. Check …
Read More >The presidential campaign of 2016 will long be remembered for a number of things, perhaps most prominently for its focus on immigrants. Amid Republican nominee Donald J. Trump’s call to build a …
Read More >Today marks the 40th anniversary of Roots: The Saga of an American Family. To celebrate, we’re highlighting Matthew F. Delmont’s Making Roots: A Nation Captivated, which looks at the importance of the book and …
Read More >We were taught that American sociology originated with the Chicago School. What if we were wrong? In honor of Black History Month, let’s consider a counterview posed by author Aldon Morris—that W. E. …
Read More >Join University of California Press this fall at the 2015 American Studies Association Annual Meeting. The meeting convenes October 8-11 in Toronto, Ontario. Please visit us at booth 300 in the Sheraton Centre …
Read More >The University of California Press steamboat is chugging up the Mississippi River to the 2015 Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting. The meeting convenes April 16-19 in St. Louis. Please visit us …
Read More >
