Pacific Historical Review

02/06/2025

The winter issue of PHR brings new insights into the Potsdam Declaration and the dropping of the atomic bomb, Chinese youth during the Cold War, and the labor and environmental justice work of the California Rural Legal Assistance. Read a preview of the issue's articles below and enjoy free online access to the issue for a limited time.

https://www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/new-from-pacific-historical-review-potsdam-declaration-chinese-youth-in-the-cold-war-california-rural-legal-assistance

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12/23/2024

Call for Applications: "North American Narratives of Crisis and Repair, Past and Present. " PhD students and junior faculty are eligible for this opportunity from Bavarian American Academy's Summer Academy - Amerikahaus. Applications due Feb 15, program held on the UC Berkeley campus July 16-23.

Die nächste Internationale Summer Academy der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie trägt den Titel „North American Narratives of Crisis and Repair, Past and Present“. Die inzwischen dreizehnte Sommerschule findet vom 16. bis 23. Juli 2025 in Berkeley, Kalifornien, statt.

11/08/2024

Congratulations to Jennifer Robin Terry, whose article about child activists and the United Farm Workers received the Carol Gold Article Award of the Coordinating Council for Women in History in addition to the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article prize.

You can read up on her PHR article here, in an interview with University of California Press:

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10/31/2024

PHR's fall issue comes out tomorrow. Read on to preview our articles from Jeremy Yellen & Phil Tomsovic, Jonathan van Harmelen, Christophe Lecuyer, P. Mike Rattanasenghchanh, Wendy Matsumura Tze M. Loo, and Gabe Masao.

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.

09/26/2024

Check out Kara Schlichting's blog post about her recent PHR article about coastal change on Malibu's Broad Beach. The article won the Forest History Society's Theodore C. Blegen Award.

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.

08/30/2024

So great to see Kara Schlichting's PHR article in the Washington Post! Kara also won the Theodore C. Blegen Award of the Forest History Society.

"This is not the first time sand has been at the heart of a dispute in Broad Beach. According to a research article published in the Pacific Historical Review in 2023, the high tide line in Broad Beach began moving landward about two feet each year starting in 1974 — resulting in 'a loss of sixty-five feet of beach by the start of the twenty-first century.'"

The principal owner of the Milwaukee Brewers was accused of digging into off-limits tidal zones, leaking fuel into the water and damaging a public beach.

07/31/2024

We hope to see you at PCB-AHA this week in Honolulu! Meanwhile, enjoy these recent PHR articles on Hawai'i, on the themes of racial diversity and belonging.

Available paywall-free from University of California Press for a limited time.

The annual conference of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (PCB-AHA) is being held from July 31-August 2, 2024, on the campus of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. In light of the conference's location, the editors of the PCB-AHA's official journal, the Pacific Histori...

07/25/2024

Details on our new "Feminist Histories" special issue, plus a look-back to PHR's previous special issues on women's and gender history. We hope you enjoy this interview with PHR associate editor Brenda Frink and our publisher, University of California Press

The summer issue of Pacific Historical Review is a special issue devoted to the theme of Feminist Histories. The special issue, which is temporarily available paywall-free, includes research articles, a forum on feminist history methods, and a response from historian Estelle B. Freedman. At PHR’s ...

07/22/2024

Thrilled to announce PHR's new special issue, "Feminist Histories"-- with a response by Estelle Freedman; articles by Katherine Marino, Renee Romano, Kim Cary Warren, Cameron Blevins & Annelise Heinz, and Nicole Martin; and the forum "Personal Reflections on Feminist Historical Methods" with Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Yvon Wang, Natalie Marine-Street, and Natalia Mehlman Petrzela. In celebration, University of California Press has lifted the paywall temporarily. Read the special issue here:

Pacific Historical Review | 93 | 3 | August 2024

07/08/2024

Congratulations to Jennifer Robin Terry, whose PHR article about child activists and the United Farm Workers has won the Article Prize of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. Read an interview with Terry on the University of California Press blog, then follow their link to her paywall-free article:

Jennifer Robin Terry This year's Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize was awarded to Jennifer Robin Terry for her article, "Niños por la causa: Child Activists and the United Farm Workers Movement, 1965–1975," published in Pacific Historical Review. Drawing on a wide variety of

04/18/2024

Tonight! Free zoom webinar w/Daniel Immerwahr on "All That is Solid Bursts into Flame: Fire and Capitalism in the Nineteenth-Century United States." RSVP below. You can also read Immerwahr's recent Pacific Historical Review article on Philippine independence paywall-free at https://online.ucpress.edu/phr/article/91/2/220/123495/Philippine-Independence-in-U-S-HistoryA-Car-Not-a Portland State University Department of History https://t.e2ma.net/message/d8ebsk/ph2kqe

In the nineteenth century, the United States dramatically adopted capitalist institutions. At the same time, the country suffered massive, conflagrations in city after city. This lecture asks about the connection between rapid economic growth and chastening environmental catastrophes. Or, more blunt...

04/11/2024

4/18 free webinar with PHR author Daniel Immerwahr. "All That Is Solid Burst into Flame: Fire and Capitalism in the Nineteenth-Century United States, with Portland State University Department of History. RSVP here: https://www.pdx.edu/history/events/all-solid-bursts-flame-fire-and-capitalism-nineteenth-century-united-states-daniel-immerwahr

01/16/2024

CFP extension from our friends at Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association: "Greetings! We hope you and yours are well and safe, and that the new year has started well.PCB-AHA will be extending its deadlines for submitting proposals to February 15. Our conference will be at the East West Center at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, July 31–August 2. You can find the call for papers at the PCB-AHA website. We hope to finalize details soon about lodging and other information."

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12/08/2023

Hope to see you all in Hawai'i for PCB-AHA 2024. Proposals due Jan 15. Conference is July 31-August 2.

11/02/2023

An interview with guest editor Tisa Wenger on PHR's recent special issue "Religion in the Nineteenth-Century American West." The interview's linked below, and the special issue is right here: https://online.ucpress.edu/phr/issue/92/3

Many readers may not think of the American West as a particularly religious place. What do we gain by paying attention to the role of religion in its history? It is true that the topic of religion rarely comes up in standard narratives of U.S. western history (Of course there a few important exce

09/12/2023

Deadline extended to Oct 16! The 2024 Western Assoc of Women Historians conference will be at Portland State University in April 2024. While you're here, you'll enjoy beautiful bridges, views of Mt. Hood, and everybody's favorite history journal.

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08/28/2023

Announcing a new prize, the Carl Abbott and David Johnson Article Award in the history of the Pacific World. We are delighted that Professors Abbott and Johnson are supporting this new prize, which will be awarded annually by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association.