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The recipient of the Western History Association's 2025 Arrington-Prucha Prize recognizing the best article on American western religious history tells us about his research into evangelical Christian nightclubs.

WHA award-winner Nicole Martin discusses the history behind who has had the right to possess homes and, by extension, American citizenship.

UC Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Animal History, a journal of historical research into animals and human-animal relationships.

By Elaine Lewinnek and Thuy Vo Dang, co-authors of A People’s Guide to Orange CountyFormer President of the Western History Association Patricia Nelson Limerick famously wrote of California and the American West, “In a society that rested on a foundation of invasion and conquest, the matter of l

'Tis the season for academic conferences when scholarly societies announce their annual awards. We are delighted to share the news that both Pacific Historical Review (PHR) and the Journal of Popular Music Studies (JPMS) have recently been honored with awards from the Western History Association (WH

We're proud to share that author Jennifer Holland has won been awarded three prestigious awards from the Western History Association for her book, Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement!The book won the Armitage-Jameson Prize for best scholarly book in western women’s and gend

While we are not convening in person for this year's Western History Association conference, UC Press Journals invite you to explore our #WHA2020 Virtual Exhibit and to sample the selection of content below that we are making available for free online for a limited time.Pacific Historical Re

This post is part of our #WHA2020 blog series. Learn more at our WHA virtual exhibit.We’re excited to announce that Genevieve Carpio has won the Western History Association’s 2020 Owens Book Award for Collisions at the Crossroads! As part of our virtual WHA 2020 conference blog series, we reache

This post is part of our #WHA2020 blog series. Learn more at our WHA virtual exhibit.When scholars Bill Deverell and Anne Hyde first started working on Shaped by the West, they said it was mostly because they wanted to have a reason to work together and "have lunch on someone else's ticket."

We are thrilled to be publishing a number of new titles groundbreaking books in Western History. Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement by Jennifer L. Holland tells the story of one of the most successful political movements of the twentieth century: the grassroots campaign agains