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The pages of UC Press’s journals have examined the War from a myriad of angles, from all sides of the conflict–its global economic and political impact, the role of student activism, memory in small-town America, and more.

While characterizing this annexation as the start of the partition of Ukraine, Moscow in fact has contributed to the consolidation of Ukrainian society around the goal of returning these and other areas lost since 2014.

In commemoration today's anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, we are sharing Current History's recent virtual issue on disability rights.People with disabilities comprise the world’s largest minority, at roughly 15 percent of the global population. Most people will experie

As the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations convenes this week in New Orleans, UC Press is pleased to remove the paywall from select journal content that we think will be of interest to SHAFR members and conference attendees. Pacific Historical ReviewPacific Historica

We've removed the paywall from select issues of two of our leading international studies journals, Asian Survey and Current History. We invite those attending the International Studies Association either in person or virtually to explore two of the journals' most popular issues, Asian Survey's annua

We are delighted to make select issues from UC Press journals that cover Asian Studies free to read online during the annual conference of the Asian Studies Association. Asian Survey's 2021 Year-In-Review IssueThe only academic journal of its kind produced in the United States, Asian Sur

by Erika Weinthal and Jeannie Sowers, authors of "Health and Environmental Tolls of Protracted Conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa" Current History (2021) 120 (830): 339–345.The Russian invasion of Ukraine has exposed the brutal strategy of seeking to bombard cities into submission

The beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022 shocked the world, setting off the largest-scale land war in Europe since at least the Balkan wars of the 1990s, and driving more than 1.5 million civilians to flee to countries to the west. Russian President Vladimir Putin had deli

We're marking the 2021 virtual conference of the Latin American Studies Association by offering a selection of free content from UC Press journals. Current History, the oldest publication devoted exclusively to international affairs published in the United States, devotes its February is

We're continuing our #0AH2021 promotions by removing the paywall from select issues of UC Press history journals. Click on the covers below to access the free issues.