You can pick almost any subject and find Mark Twain’s opinions expressed on it somewhere. Thanksgiving is no exception. In an address given at the first annual dinner of Philadelphia’s New England Society …
Read More >Most Americans know the story of Thanksgiving, but the woman who helped ensure its status as a national holiday, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, is a little less familiar. Hale was an educated …
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 >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 >Ana Elizabeth Rosas, author of Abrazando el Espiritu: Bracero Families Confront the US-Mexico Border, spoke to David-James Gonzoles of New Books in American Studies this weekend. Ana Rosas is Associate Professor and Director …
Read More >By Alejandro Velasco This guest post is published in advance of the Latin American Studies Association Congress in San Juan, Puerto Rico. UC Press authors share their research and stories that reflect on …
Read More >Make University of California Press part of your tropical escape to the 2015 Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting. The meeting convenes 27-30 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Please visit us at …
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 >Join University of California Press this spring in the nation’s capital for the 2015 American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting. The meeting convenes March 18-22 in Washington, DC. Please visit our …
Read More >In this post, Stein Tønnesson, author of Vietnam 1946: How the War Began, recalls a debate he had with a colleague about events leading up to war between France and Vietnam, and …
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