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Updated May 26, 2021This week for #LASA2021, we're proud to be celebrating the accomplishments of Jessica Graham, author of Shifting the Meaning of Democracy: Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil. The book has won the Latin American Studies Association's 2021 Bryce Wood Bo

“When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters in this country, I often think of Boyle Heights.” —George J. SánchezIn this virtual conversation, acclaimed scholar George Sanchez, author of Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American

As part of our ongoing Editor Spotlight Series, we connected with UC Press Executive Editor Niels Hooper to talk about his History, American Studies, and Middle East Studies lists, and how our program has developed over the time he's worked at the Press. Niels also shares his journey from Oxford to

Photo credit: Mike GlierAs a professor American studies and ethnicity at USC, Natalia Molina has spent her career studying race, citizenship, and the experiences of immigrants in the U.S. Last year, Molina was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in honor of her “revealing how narratives of racial dif

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.

This post is part of our Editor Spotlight Series.For this year’s virtual American Historical Association conference, we connected with UC Press Premodern World History Senior Editor Eric Schmidt to talk about our program and what new projects he’s most excited about. Eric also shares how he

We're excited to share our forthcoming medieval / early modern world textbook, The Sea in the Middle, and the accompanying sourcebook, Texts from the Middle! Both books are expected to publish in Fall 2022.The Sea in the Middle presents an original and revisionist narrative of the development of

By Stephen Tuffnell, author of Made in Britain: Emigration and Nation in Nineteenth-Century AmericaLondon’s underground map is now globally ubiquitous. Part electrical schematic, part Mondrian neo-plasticism it is perhaps one of the city’s most recognisable cultural artefacts. T-shirts, frid

By Christine Philliou, author of Turkey: A Past Against HistoryImagine living in a place where the political elite is deeply divided within itself. Contradictions between constitutionalism and empire are coming into violent conflict, seemingly on a daily basis. “Minority” groups who have lon

By Christy Thornton, author of Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global EconomyWho gets to govern the global economy? In the twentieth century, this was a key question for political figures and experts in law and economics, who came together repeatedly to design ins