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Electric Eyes: Erica Toffoli on Border Surveillance and Visual History

Jul 14 2026
Toffoli discusses the images & technologies that helped construct the Border Patrol's public image, the historical roots of today's surveillance culture along the U.S.–Mexico border, & why visual history remains essential for understanding contemporary debates over immigration & state power.
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Drawing and Disrupting Borders: A Q&A with Carlos Alonso Nugent

Jul 07 2026
We talk with Carlos Alonso Nugent, recipient of the 2025 Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Biography Essay Prize.
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Considering the Revolution: A Virtual Issue of "The Public Historian"

Jun 30 2026
"The Public Historian" commemorates the Semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence with a special virtual issue.
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On Presidential Libraries

Jun 19 2026
As the Obama Presidential Center opens to the public, learn more about the history of presidential libraries.
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An Exclusive Look at “Self-Realization Nation”

May 12 2026
An excerpt from John Kapusta's new book, "Self-Realization Nation."
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New from Pacific Historical Review: Black Schools in the West, Stopover Migration, and Labor Relations in Vietnam

May 06 2026
Preview the new Summer 2026 issue of "Pacific Historical Review."
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Excerpt from Charlotte Brooks's "The Moys of New York and Shanghai"

Mar 10 2026
An exclusive look at Charlotte Brooks's THE MOYS OF NEW YORK AND SHANGHAI with an intro by the author.
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Whether or Not "Sinners" Wins the Oscar, Ryan Coogler’s Genre-Bending Film Signals a New Era for Original Cinema

Mar 06 2026
A Q&A with "Film Quarterly" contributor Anthony Michael D’Agostino
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"I hope 'One Battle After Another' wins a million awards": A Q&A with Peter Coviello

Feb 26 2026
For me, Anderson is a filmmaker who read a book about state terror and counterfascist mobilization and metabolized Pynchon’s "Vineland" into the unlikeliest of things: a movie, a mass-cultural product that wants to think clearly and hard about the here-and-now-ness of an American fascism.
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Thirty Years of “Pacific Historical Review”: New Articles on Gray Wolves, US-Pacific Expansion, Iberian Transpacific Trade

Feb 03 2026
Preview the new Winter 2026 issue of "Pacific Historical Review."
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