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The European cultural journal Eurozine published an article by Miloš Jovanović

October 5, 2020 in /by

The European cultural journal Eurozine recently published an article by Miloš Jovanović , “Luxury and progress in Belgrade: Comparing post-Ottoman and post-socialist urban development”A small excerpt:”Belgrade residents cannot afford the Savamala waterfront’s extortionate real-estate prices. Its decision-makers draw aspirational parallels between today’s urban development and the area’s post-Ottoman era but ignore the failures of both. Seemingly a-historic glass facades cannot disguise […]

California has removed most obstacles to voting. Why are so many still not going to the polls?

October 5, 2020 in /by

UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy report tracks the state’s history of restricting and expanding the franchiseMaia Ferdman | September 30, 2020Editor’s note: This announcement was updated on Oct. 1, 2020, to include terminology that more accurately describes California’s historical voting policies and to better reflect certain findings in the report.A new report by the UCLA Luskin […]

Kelly Lytle Hernandez’s Book Selected by the National Book Foundation

September 30, 2020 in /by

Kelly Lytle Hernandez’s City of Inmates has been selected by the National Book Foundation as one of the essential books to rethink and dismantle mass incarceration. Eddie Glaude, Jr. describes the book and why it was selected: “City of Inmates insists that we understand mass incarceration against the backdrop of two centuries of violence (against indigenous people, Mexican and […]

Ted Porter Awarded Pfizer Prize by the History of Science Society

September 28, 2020 in /by

Ted Porter has been awarded the Pfizer Prize by the History of Science Society for his book Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity (Princeton University Press, 2018). The Pfizer Prize is the primary book prize awarded annually by the History of Science Society in recognition of an outstanding book dealing with the history of science, in this case published between 2017 […]

California’s Native American Heritage Commission Published the Digital Atlas of California Indians

September 25, 2020 in /by

On September 23, California’s Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC) published the Digital Atlas of California Indians. Our own Benjamin Madley has been working on this project for several years and serves as an advisor. Developed in partnership with the California Department of Parks & Recreation with generous financial support from the DRAM Antitrust Settlement, the Digital Atlas of […]

Katherine Marino’s Book Co-Winner of Ida Blom-Karen Offen Prize

September 21, 2020 in /by

Katherine Marino’s book Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement is the co-winner of the inaugural Ida Blom-Karen Offen Prize in Transnational Women’s and Gender History (for books published between 2016 and 2019) from the International Federation for Research in Women’s History. The other winner is Jocelyn Olcott’s International Women’s Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising […]

Peter Baldwin Interviewed about Responses to Covid-19

September 17, 2020 in /by

Peter Baldwin gave an interview on the different approaches various countries took to the Covid 19 pandemic for the Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i Tècnica (SCHCT). Watch the interiew here and read the blog here.