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New from "Pacific Historical Review": Oil Drilling in Santa Barbara County, China’s Economy and the Cold War, the Construction of Japanese Politics and Identity

Aug 08 2025
Preview the new Summer 2025 issue of "Pacific Historical Review."
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Epidemics, Quarantine, and Japanese American Incarceration: A Q&A with Jonathan van Harmelen

Aug 01 2025
Inspired by the COVID pandemic and his ongoing research on Japanese American history, historian Jonathan van Harmelen investigates the medical history of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II.
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New from Pacific Historical Review: JFK's patrol torpedo boat, Japanese internment, Silicon Valley toxins, US-Thai relations, and Gabe Masao translations

Oct 14 2024
A preview of the new issue of Pacific Historical Review, which features articles in U.S. and Pacific history.
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Pacific Historical Review Announces First Double Award Winner

Aug 11 2021
Pacific Historical Review is congratulating Yu Tokunaga, Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, who has won both the W. Turrentine Jackson (Article) Prize and the Louis Knott Memorial Award for his article, "Japanese Farmers, Mexican Workers, an
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Watch: Interview with Asian American Artist-Activist Nobuko Miyamoto, From Internment to Liberation

Apr 08 2021
A veteran of both Broadway and the protest line, Nobuko Miyamoto is an iconic Asian American artist and activist. Growing up in the 1940s as a third-generation Japanese American "without a song of my own," she found her voice in the 1960s through the revolutionary movements occurring in the U.S. and
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