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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.

From a country music legend's sewing machine to the US–Mexico border, a new special issue of the "Journal of the American Musicological Society" uses everyday and extraordinary objects to reveal the many histories of American music.

We talk with Carlos Alonso Nugent, recipient of the 2025 Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Biography Essay Prize.

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

"The Public Historian" commemorates the Semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence with a special virtual issue.

"Feminist Media Histories" has removed the paywall from a selection of articles for Pride Month.

As the Obama Presidential Center opens to the public, learn more about the history of presidential libraries.

This virtual issue offers free access to a broad spectrum of articles that provide a comprehensive source for readers seeking to know more.

UC Press is delighted to announce that Jacek Blaszkiewicz will become the next editor of the "Journal of Musicology" in January 2027, bringing his wide-ranging scholarship and interdisciplinary perspective to the journal’s next chapter.

"We want to continue to engage with scholars, and push them outside their comfort zones to write for more general audiences with writing that delights and informs."