Fun, free events communicate a larger goal: that everyday people should be able to afford a joyful life.

The 2025 Population Health Initiative Applied Research Fellowship Project (ARFP) team recently published their spatial analysis findings on access disparities in King County parks in Case Studies in.....

Timed to coincide with the Society of Architectural Historian's 2026 virtual conference, we invite you to read JSAH 's current issue for free online.

The winning article successfully brings the richness of late antique scholarship on religious communities into early medieval middle eastern conversations.

Our constitutional system is being torn asunder. Enter the shadow court, an intriguing idea from Julie C. Suk.

Authors Pietrzyk-Reeves and Pickering offer conceptual and empirical insights that will be useful for researchers working on civil society, civic participation, and democracy promotion.

Sugary cereals are generally placed on lower shelves in stores, the better for children to see the cheery packaging and cartoon mascots.

The article explains the links between director Adam Lowenstein’s story, the collection and “Night of the Living Dead.”

Author Robert McRuer on the consequences of "one-dimensional disability" politics and looking beyond U.S.-centered models of disability identity.

A century ago, the Pan-American road promised a new era of fraternity between the two continents. Did it succeed?

Researchers have discovered that planktonic baby lobsters, or larvae, preferentially feed on Calanus finmarchicus, a tiny, calorie-rich zooplankton species, during one of the most vulnerable stages of...

The guest editors of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos’s special issue on Catholic visual culture discuss how images have shaped religious memory, political activism, and debates over identity in Mex...

How breakfast became dessert

Author Mona Sloane challenges AI's feared, inevitable transformation with a question we can ask when planning its infrastructure.

Call for Papers: Women and Public History: The Professional, the Political, and the Historical    Women are the majority of public historians. What now? This special issue of The Public Historian,…

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

Author Panpan Yang on studying the romance between animation and other visual mediums.

Emmaia Gelman’s new book explores the group’s opposition to leftist movements, especially those linked to racial issues.

What happens to the history of technology when we take animals seriously as agents rather than as objects of control?

The country’s coming election will not be decided by the American president.

We see the very poor who inject drugs as either self-destructive or as passive victims of a broken system. But Sarah Brothers found something else.

Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the August 2026 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and…

Highlighting UC Press’s accomplishments during the 2025-26 fiscal year and our vision for the future.

Lauren M. E. Goodlad discusses what literary theory can teach us about large language models, why language is more than data, and what it means to put the “humanities in the loop” in debates about AI.

Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses the first anthology of writing by Vietnamese diasporic authors.

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Refresh your syllabus with JSAH Roundtables that bring timely, field-expanding perspectives on trans experiences, race, Indigeneity, and global architectural histories into the classroom.

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