UC Press Blog

With the 2025 NCAA Football National Championship game near, "Tacking the Everyday" author Tracie Canada talks about her new book and her unique perspective on college football.

Author Camilo Sanz discusses his book "Cancer Intersections," on access to neoliberal, market-based oncological treatments in Colombia, a country where all patients are legally guaranteed access to medical services.

We’re thrilled to announce our new California Studies in Global Musicology series, led by series editors Joy H. Calico and Daniel K. L. Chua! In this interview, Calico and Chua introduce the series, describe the types of projects they’re looking for, and provide advice for scholars hoping to submit to the series.

For over 4000 years, the Gulf—sometimes called the Persian Gulf—has been a global crossroads while managing to avoid control by the world’s greatest empires. Allen Fromherz explains why.

A special issue of California History commemorates the centennial of the Border Patrol and the Immigration Act of 1924, and offers important historical perspective on our current political moment.

In 2020, the Baltimore Police Department had an aerial surveillance plane that could supposedly photograph and track every person in public view. Spy Plane reveals what happened with this controversial policing experiment.

Emrah Yıldız discusses the values—religious, political, economic, or social—behind the eight-hundred-mile journey across two international borders to the Sayyida Zainab shrine.

Somewhere between the virtuosic parodies of Frank Zappa and the screwball wit of Monty Python, the Firesign Theatre reinvented the comedy album in the 1960s and ’70s. Jeremy Braddock explores their legacy.

Author Laureen Hom explains what urban Chinatowns have to teach us about coalition-building, pushing back against gentrification, and envisioning neighborhood changes that are community-driven and equitable.

In her highly original book, Charlotte Biltekoff explores the role that science and scientific authority play in food industry responses to consumer concerns about what we eat and how it is made. Real Food, Real Facts offers lessons that extend well beyond food choice and will appeal to readers interested in how everyday people come to accept or reject scientific authority in matters of personal health and well-being.