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For the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, we reached out to scholar Adria Imada to discuss her new book, An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration.Adria L. Imada is Professor of History at University of California, Irvine,

We're pleased to announce that Dr. Diane M.T. North's article, "California and the 1918–1920 Influenza Pandemic," published in California History (Vol. 97, No. 3, August [Fall] 2020), has won the Western Association of Women Historians' (WAWH) Judith Lee Ridge prize for the best history article publ

Over the last year, we’ve seen how American Indian have continued a long tradition of survivance to cope with the devastating effects of the pandemic. In California, as well as the rest of the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the long-standing implications of settler colonialism.

By Martin Halliwell, author of American Health Crisis: One Hundred Years of Panic, Planning, and PoliticsThis guest post is part of our #OAH2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more and get 40% off the book.When I began working on my new book American Health Crisis, I w

This World Health Day, The World Health Organization is calling for action to eliminate health inequities, as part of a year-long global campaign to build a fairer, healthier world. COVID-19 has brought to the fore long-standing systemic health and social inequities and pushed many more people i