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Public History in the South
Oct 04 2024
Enjoy a paywall-free selection of recent articles from The Public Historian in celebration of NCPH’s mini-conference on the State of Public History in the South.
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.
Rewriting the story of horses and human history
Sep 05 2024
Archaeologist William T. Taylor shares a behind-the-scenes tour of the fieldwork and discoveries that inspired HOOF BEATS, a new book that explores how horses forever altered the course of human history.
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.
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
Nutrition Facts labels have a complicated legacy – a historian explains the science and politics of translating food into information
Jul 22 2024
By Xaq Frohlich, author of From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information AgeThis post was originally published on The Conversation.The Nutrition Facts label, that black and white information box found on nearly every packaged food product in the U.S. since 1994, has rece
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
Reflections on 25 years of Refried Elvis (Part 1 of 2)
Jun 12 2024
Celebrating 25 years of REFRIED ELVIS with the first of two posts focusing on the monumental book.
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