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The Climate Crisis and Eroding Public Beach Access: A Q&A with Kara Murphy Schlichting, winner of the 2024 Forest History Society's Blegen Article Award
Sep 23 2024
Malibu's Broad Beach is backed by some of the most expensive, exclusive real estate in Los Angeles County and is a bellwether for how California coastal communities address the tension between public access and private development in the face of the climate crisis and sea level rise.
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Offers Free Content for SAH Virtual 2024
Sep 18 2024
JSAH has removed the paywall from its current September 2024 issue in conjunction with the Society of Architectural Historians 2024 Virtual conference.
Global Perspectives Welcomes New Editors-in-Chief Hagen Schulz-Forberg and J.P. Singh
Sep 03 2024
As the new co-editors for Global Perspectives, Schulz-Forberg and Singh “are honored to lead the journal into the next phase, and humbled to take the charge forward from Helmut Anheier… Rather than change the course for the journal, we will seek to deepen the impact the journal continues to make in academic publishing.”
UC Press Launches Animal History, Documenting the Histories of Animals and Human-Animal Relationships
Aug 08 2024
Animal History publishes cutting-edge historical research on the histories of animals and human-animal relationships.
Disrupting Racism and Global Exclusion in Academic Publishing: Recommendations and Resources for Authors, Reviewers, and Editors
Aug 02 2024
Following the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, a brief window of time opened to “take audacious steps to address systemic racial inequality.”
Racial Diversity and Belonging in Hawaiian History
Jul 31 2024
The annual conference of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (PCB-AHA) is being held from July 31-August 2, 2024, on the campus of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. In light of the conference's location, the editors of the PCB-AHA's official journal, the Pacific Historic
Special issue on Feminist Histories is now available from Pacific Historical Review
Jul 23 2024
The summer issue of Pacific Historical Review is a special issue devoted to the theme of Feminist Histories. The special issue, which is temporarily available paywall-free, includes research articles, a forum on feminist history methods, and a response from historian Estelle B. Freedman. At PHR’s ed
No Age Limit for Justice: A Q&A with Jennifer Robin Terry, winner of the 2024 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize
Jul 08 2024
Jennifer Robin TerryThis year's Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize was awarded to Jennifer Robin Terry for her article, "Niños por la causa: Child Activists and the United Farm Workers Movement, 1965–1975," published in Pacific Historical Review. Drawing on a wide variety of
Celebrating 10 Years of Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
Jul 06 2024
In December 2013, UC Press’s mission-driven, trans-disciplinary, open-access journal Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene published its first article, ushering in its motto, “Open Science for Public Good.” In this blog post we pause to reflect and take note of some of the publication highlights fro
An Interview with Yvette J. Saavedra, winner of the Antonia I. Castañeda Prize
Jun 12 2024
Every year the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) awards the Antonia I. Castañeda Prize to recognize historical scholarship that examines the intersections of class, race, gender, and sexuality, as it relates to Chicana/Latina and/or Native/Indigenous women. This year, hist