On this day in 1864 President Lincoln signed a law leading to the protection of what we know today as Yosemite National Park. Dive deeper into the history of this iconic landscape …
Read More >This post is part of our Earth Week blog series. Check back every day between now and Friday for new blog posts. by Shelley Alden Brooks, author of Big Sur: The Making …
Read More >Get inspired at the 2016 Western History Association Annual Meeting (October 20-23, St. Paul, MN) with important Western History research from four UC Press journals: California History, Pacific Historical Review, Southern California Quarterly, and Boom: A Journal of …
Read More >by Gregory L. Simon, author of Flame and Fortune in the American West: Urban Development, Environmental Change, and the Great Oakland Hills Fire Another day, another menacing wildfire. This appears to be the …
Read More >UC Press is pleased to announce that the following titles in the Myriad Atlas Series – The Atlas of Climate Change, The Atlas of Religion, The Atlas of Food, The State of …
Read More >by David Carle, author of Introduction to Water in California, Second Edition Water is the essence of life, the key to California’s history and its future. Today, water choices are complicated by …
Read More >by Keith Heyer Meldahl Walk on a Southern California beach, and a sense of permanence may come to mind. The sand scrunches predictably underfoot, the coastal bluffs loom seemingly unchanged, and the …
Read More >by Nancy Boas, author of The Society of Six: California Colorists The 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco shattered Northern California’s artistic isolation with a mammoth display of art from over …
Read More >University of California Press is loading up our wagon with books and hitting the Oregon Trail for the 2015 Western History Association Annual Conference. The meeting convenes October 21-24 in Portland, Oregon. Please visit …
Read More >by Alexandra Minna Stern This guest post is part of a series published in conjunction with the meeting of the American Studies Association in Toronto. UC Press authors share insight into their research and stories …
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