What does the American Revolution look like when viewed from California? A new special issue of "California History" offers a fresh perspective on the nation's founding and the many revolutions that have shaped America. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/r...

Rethinking the American Revolution from California: A Q&A with Dee E. Andrews and Jason Daniels

The American Revolution didn't end in 1776—or on the East Coast. A new special issue of "California History" explores its lasting impact from California's unique vantage point.

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We're thrilled to announce our latest award-winning authors in the fields of food justice, labor studies, art history, and more. Please help us celebrate by sharing the news! www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/u...

UC Press July Award Winners

UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are our June 2026 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!

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Preorder THE WORLD ATLAS OF FERMENTED FOODS AND DRINKS today and get access to an exclusive fermentation workshop with author @kenalbala.bsky.social! Details here: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/t... #fermentation

SMOG AND SUNSHINE in Nature: "[Carlson's] powerful book details how scientists, lawyers and residents collaborated with public officials to reduce pollution, especially from vehicles, beginning with the state’s first Clean Air Act in 1963": www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The power of ignorance and peering into the Milky Way: Books in brief

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

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DREAM ROAD TO PAN AMERICA by Shawn Miller in Counterpunch: "The reader is not only provided with a history of a highway; they are also provided with history itself": www.counterpunch.org/2026/07/31/p...

Pan Am Highway Blues

A friend of mine, long past and now hitchhiking on some eternal highway, used to hitch the Pan American highway every January. From the first time I heard

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New issue alert: Released in time for you to read it online during the @pcb-aha.bsky.social conference, the new issue of @pachistreview.bsky.social is available online now. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/n...

New from "Pacific Historical Review": Mission Bells, Chinese Exclusion Act, Indigenous Land Rights

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

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The guest editors of a new special issue of "Afterimage" discuss how artists expose, challenge, and reimagine the political and material realities of the U.S.–Mexico border. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/a...

A Conversation with Alyssa Quintanilla and Benjamin Williams, guest editors of 'Processing Forms: Political Aesthetics and the Materiality of the US-Mexico Border,' a Special Issue of "Afterimage"

The guest editors of Afterimage's new special issue explore how artists and activists are reimagining the U.S.–Mexico border through creative forms of resistance.

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Special issue of the California History journal : American revolutions in California, including my article "Was the 1836 California revolution an American revolution ?" A good summer read :) 🏖️ online.ucpress.edu/ch/article-a... @ucpress.bsky.social

What is it like to stand in the shadow of Earth and look out at the vastness of the Milky Way? THE ULTRAVIEW EFFECT shares how astronauts’ experiences of profound humility in the face of the unknown transform their understanding of humanity. www.ucpress.edu/books/the-ul...

What becomes possible when an astrophysicist and an artist create together? ART-SCIENCE UNDISCIPLINED reveals how values-based collaboration can spark innovation, overcome institutional barriers, and transform the way we make knowledge. www.ucpress.edu/books/art-sc...

In Las Vegas for the @pcb-aha.bsky.social conference? Pls join us this afternoon at 1pm for a panel on publishing featuring the editors of @pachistreview.bsky.social & California History. See program for details.

In "Threadbare Politics: Feminist T-Shirts as Queer Media," Catherine A. Evans argues that T-shirts are, indeed, media, centering activist Kipp Dawson’s collection of over 250 political shirts. @caevans.bsky.social Read for free now! doi.org/10.1525/fmh....

In "Safi Faye with and against the United Nations: African Women, Development Filmmaking, and the Neoliberal Turn," Nikolaus Perneczky examines the development films of Senegalese filmmaker Safi Faye. Read for free now: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....

Looking for a refreshing, gut-healthy summer drink? Preorder THE WORLD ATLAS OF FERMENTED FOODS AND DRINKS and get access to an exclusive fermentation workshop with author @kenalbala.bsky.social on how to make the Turkish şalgam suyu! Details here: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/t...

In a new podcast, the eds of "Science Fiction Studies" offer an inside look at the jrnl, discussing its place in the field & revisiting notable articles that have contributed to the study of science fiction. @dracopoullos.bsky.social @locutuspicard.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/inside-scien...

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New issue alert: The new July 2026 issue of "Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture" features four research articles regarding art and visual culture emanating from Mexico. Available online now. online.ucpress.edu/lalvc/issue/...

Volume 8 Issue 3 | Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture | University of California Press

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New issue alert: Check out the new Summer 2026 issue of the "Journal of Autoethnography"—available online now. online.ucpress.edu/joae/issue/7/3

Volume 7 Issue 3 | Journal of Autoethnography | University of California Press

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New issue alert: The new issue of "Classical Antiquity" is currently available online. online.ucpress.edu/ca/issue/45/1

Volume 45 Issue 1 | Classical Antiquity | University of California Press

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New issue alert: The July 2026 issue of "Science Fiction Studies" is available online now. online.ucpress.edu/sfs/issue/53/2

Volume 53 Issue 2 | Science Fiction Studies | University of California Press

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What role have images played in shaping ideas about the U.S.–Mexico border? WHA Malone Award and Orsi Prize winner Erica Toffoli explores the history of surveillance, visual culture, and border policing—and how those legacies continue to resonate today. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/e...

Electric Eyes: Erica Toffoli on Border Surveillance and Visual History

Toffoli discusses the images & technologies that helped construct the Border Patrol's public image, the historical roots of today's surveillance culture along the U.S.–Mexico border, & why visual hist...

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I co-edited a special issue of Afterimage with @ucpress.bsky.social titled "Processing Forms: Political Aesthetics and the Materiality of the US-Mexico Border” with Alyssa Quintanilla. Read the introduction for free here: online.ucpress.edu/afterimage/a...

Looking for a resume-booster or want to stay in the loop of #PublicHistory #scholarship? Be a reviewer for The Public Historian! TPH publishes the results of research and addresses issues in the field. Fill out an app: https://loom.ly/Fi_Wsl4 @ucpress.bsky.social

Miguel Errazu's "Abundance and Frustration: Women’s Labor and the Archive of the Miners’ Film Workshop" recovers the story of women's labour in the 1983 Super 8 training project established between the Bolivian Mineworkers' Federation and French NGO Association Varan. Free! doi.org/10.1525/fmh....

@newsweek.com has an interview with Deana Weibel @ethnoethereal.bsky.social, author of THE ULTRAVIEW EFFECT: Weibel "said lunar life will likely resemble life at an isolated research station more than a futuristic space colony." www.newsweek.com/nasa-moon-ba...

Fancy living on the moon? NASA says it's working on making it a reality

The use of lunar resources could "completely change the energy situation on Earth," a former NASA adviser told Newsweek.

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Thank you @wsj.com for reviewing POWER SURGE by Thomas Schatz in the Arts & Culture section. "[An] impressive work...an entertaining pop history." www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

‘Power Surge’ Review: Mergers at the Movies

Hollywood studios in the 1990s were perfecting the art of the blockbuster even as indie filmmakers found new ways to reach ordinary moviegoers.

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12(3) "Fashion as/and Media," guest edited by Roberto Filippello and Ilya Parkins, is now live! In this issue fashion operates intermedially, foregrounding its relational capacity across photography, television, magazines, and novels. —Editors' Introduction, FREE NOW: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....

Order CLIMATE CHANGE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT by Paul D. Almeida (@fast-reggae.bsky.social): www.ucpress.edu/books/climat...

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Using data collected from thousands of climate events, ASA member Paul D. Almeida @fast-reggae.bsky.social explores the origins, gains, and future of the climate movement, including links between climate justice and environmental justice @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Hey everyone! I edited a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Literature on the “Fin de Fin de Siècle”. Check it out!

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New issue alert: "Nineteenth-Century Literature" has just released a new special issue, 'Fin de Fin de Siècle,' convened by @dustinfriedman.bsky.social. online.ucpress.edu/ncl/issue/81/1

Published to coincide with the U.S. semiquincentennial, a new special issue of the "Journal of the American Musicological Society" invites readers to rethink American music history through 18 essays on the objects that shape its stories. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/t...

The "Journal of the American Musicological Society" Publishes Colloquy for 250th Anniversary of the United States

From a country music legend's sewing machine to the US–Mexico border, a new special issue of the "Journal of the American Musicological Society" uses everyday and extraordinary objects to reveal the m...

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