UC Press Blog

The guest editors of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos’s special issue on Catholic visual culture discuss how images have shaped religious memory, political activism, and debates over identity in Mexico from the Cristero War to the present.

What happens to the history of technology when we take animals seriously as agents rather than as objects of control?

Refresh your syllabus with JSAH Roundtables that bring timely, field-expanding perspectives on trans experiences, race, Indigeneity, and global architectural histories into the classroom.

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.

Preview the new Summer 2026 issue of "Pacific Historical Review."

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.

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

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

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

Author Eduardo Elena the meaning of "Emerging El Dorado" and the challenges of researching and writing on an truly international topic.