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A special issue of California History commemorates the centennial of the Border Patrol and the Immigration Act of 1924, and offers important historical perspective on our current political moment.

American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence. After treating wounded migrants and refugees seeking safety in the United States, anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte boldly embarked on a journey in the opposite direction—following the

California History is pleased to announce the winner of the Richard J. Orsi prize for the best article published in the journal in 2022. The committee unanimously selected Warren C. Wood's “S. An-Sky’s The Dybbuk and the Process of Jewish American Identity in 1920s San Francisco” (California Histor

Ronald Rael's "Teeter-Totter Wall" conceptualization from Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary became a reality today. Custom built see-saws were transported by Ronald and his crew to Sunland Park, New Mexico, where a slatted borderwall fence separates it from Ciudad