UC Press Blog

The American Revolution didn't end in 1776—or on the East Coast. A new special issue of "California History" explores its lasting impact from California's unique vantage point.

The guest editors of Afterimage's new special issue explore how artists and activists are reimagining the U.S.–Mexico border through creative forms of resistance.

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.

The Journal of Musicology's Digital and Multimedia Editor Esther Morgan-Ellis interviews the contributors to the journal's issue 78.3.

Authors Alex Werth and Brandi Thompson Summers offer perspective on cultural geography and Black belonging in Oakland on the AAG panel, "Oakland as Subject and Setting: Doing Black Geographies in Place."

Author Tara Mulder on her unique perspective as a classicist and daughter of a homebirth midwife and how she reconstructed ancient women's lost stories of childbirth and pregnancy.

Winner of two Golden Globes, "The Secret Agent" has been nominated for four Academy Awards. The film's critical success underscores the special moment Brazilian cinema is currently enjoying.

A Q&A with "Film Quarterly" contributor Anthony Michael D’Agostino

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.

"Journal of the American Musicological Society" editor Jake Johnson conducts video interviews with the contributors to the journal's Summer 2025 issue.