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Born-Again Boogie: A Q&A with Eric Gonzaba
Oct 15 2025
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.
“Problem” Groups and the Home in Western Reconstruction: A Q&A with Nicole Martin, winner of the WHA’s 2025 Ray Allen Billington Prize
Oct 14 2025
WHA award-winner Nicole Martin discusses the history behind who has had the right to possess homes and, by extension, American citizenship.
Animal History is now open for submissions
Nov 11 2023
UC Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Animal History, a journal of historical research into animals and human-animal relationships.
How We’re Making California History Public History in Orange County
Oct 06 2022
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
UC Press Journals Win Society Awards
Nov 20 2021
'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
Author spotlight: Q&A with Award-winning Author, Jennifer Holland
Oct 27 2021
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
Free Content Offer from UC Press’s History Journals for #WHA2020
Oct 15 2020
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
Author Spotlight: Interview with Owens Book Award Winner Genevieve Carpio, author of Collisions at the Crossroads
Oct 15 2020
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
Author Spotlight: Writing History from the West with Bill Deverell and Anne Hyde
Oct 14 2020
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."
#WHA2020: New and Notable in Western History
Oct 14 2020
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