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On Presidential Libraries

As the Obama Presidential Center opens to the public, learn more about the history of presidential libraries.

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An Exclusive Look at “Self-Realization Nation”

An excerpt from John Kapusta's new book, "Self-Realization Nation."

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New from Pacific Historical Review: Black Schools in the West, Stopover Migration, and Labor Relations in Vietnam

Preview the new Summer 2026 issue of "Pacific Historical Review."

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Coming Soon

Our Lives: What Abortion Attitudes Reveal About Who We Are as Americans

by Tricia Colleen Bruce (Author)

Aug 2026

Reading Black Reconstruction Today

by Yousuf Al-Bulushi (Editor), Geo Maher (Editor), and 1 more

Aug 2026

Open Access

Disability, Revolution

by Robert McRuer (Author)

Sep 2026

Underground Networks: Artists' Television in New York City

by Benjamin Olin (Author)

Sep 2026

Journals

Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies

National Review of Black Politics

Boom California

Ethnic Studies Review

Open Access Titles

Reading Black Reconstruction Today

by Yousuf Al-Bulushi (Editor), Geo Maher (Editor), and 1 more

Aug 2026

Open Access

Gender Bound: Prisons, Trans Lives, and the Abolitionist Horizon

by Joss T. Greene (Author)

Jun 2026

Open Access

Making Our Beasts: Paleontology in the United States

by Elana Shever (Author)

Dec 2025

Open Access

The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States

by Kit W. Myers (Author)

Jan 2025

Open Access

A Burdensome Experiment: Race, Labor, and Schools in New Orleans after Katrina

by Christien Philmarc Tompkins (Author)

Oct 2024

Open Access

Real Food, Real Facts: Processed Food and the Politics of Knowledge

by Charlotte Biltekoff (Author)

Aug 2024

Open Access

How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race

by Amy Coddington (Author)

Jul 2024

Open Access

Queering Urbanism: Insurgent Spaces in the Fight for Justice

by Stathis G. Yeros (Author)

Apr 2024

Open Access