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New from "Pacific Historical Review": Jade Snow Wong, Women’s Self Defense, Patricia Derian’s Humanitarian Legacy

Apr 28 2025
A preview of the Spring 2025 issue of "Pacific Historical Review," which takes readers to World War II, the Cold War, and beyond.
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From the UC Press Journals Archives: Remembrances of the Vietnam War

Apr 14 2025
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.
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New from "Pacific Historical Review": Potsdam Declaration, Chinese Youth in the Cold War, California Rural Legal Assistance

Jan 21 2025
A preview of the Winter 2025 issue of "Pacific Historical Review"
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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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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Q&A with Tisa Wenger, Guest Editor of the Pacific Historical Review special issue, “Religion in the Nineteenth-Century American West”

Nov 01 2023
Many readers may not think of the American West as a particularly religious place. What do we gain by paying attention to the role of religion in its history?It is true that the topic of religion rarely comes up in standard narratives of U.S. western history (Of course there a few important exce
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#SHAFR2022: UC Press Journals Offer Free Online Content

Jun 15 2022
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
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