Alicia Gutierrez-Romine is an assistant professor of history at La Sierra University. She is the author of From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969 (Nebraska, 2020). In 2015, on the first major research trip for my doctoral … Continue reading From the Desk of Alicia Gutierrez-Romine: What the History of Abortion Should Teach Us
Join the Institute for the Study of Los Angeles and their Scholar in Residence, Alison Rose Jefferson, M.H.C. | Ph.D. for a symposium via Zoom, titled “Promised Land, Hallowed Ground: Commemorative Justice and Making Change in Community Heritage Preservation in Southern California”, with invited … Continue reading Upcoming Event: Promised Land, Hallowed Ground with Alison Rose Jefferson
This month Justice in Plain Sight: How a Small-Town Newspaper and Its Unlikely Lawyer Opened America’s Courtrooms (Nebraska, 2019) is available as a paperback edition for the first time. Justice in Plain Sight is the story of a hometown newspaper in … Continue reading New in Paperback
Books Abraham Joshua Heschel Edward K. Kaplan Review in America: “In Abraham Joshua Heschel: Mind, Heart, Soul, author Edward K. Kaplan not only tells the life story of this great scholar, but also captures the essence of the recurring themes in Heschel’s … Continue reading News and Reviews
Jonathan Greenspan is the son of Sophie Greenspan (1906-1990), who was the first English-language broadcaster for the underground Voice of Israel and author of Westward with Fremont and Masada Will Not Fall Again, both now available in paperback editions. Solomon … Continue reading From the Desk of Jonathan Greenspan: California’s Early History
Save 50% off these books during Women’s History Month! Enter the code 6WHM20 in the promotion code field of your shopping cart and click “Add Promotion Code.” Offer expires March 31, 2020 and is good on U.S. and Canadian shipments only. Continue reading Women’s History Month Sale
UNP is celebrating Black History Month with—what else—books! Here is a list of titles that commemorate important figures and scholarship in African American History. In Living the California Dream Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America’s “frontier of leisure” by … Continue reading What to Read During Black History Month
Robert Aquinas McNally is the author of The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America’s Gilded Age (Bison Books, 2017), which won a 2018 Commonwealth Club of California’s gold medal for the year’s best book on … Continue reading California Governor Opens the Door on Native Genocide in the State’s Closet and Apologizes
Robert Aquinas McNally is a freelance writer and editor based in Concord, California. He is the author or coauthor of nine nonfiction books, including So Remorseless a Havoc: Of Dolphins, Whales, and Men. His book The Modoc War: A Story of … Continue reading On the Modoc War, a Small Step in the Right Direction
The following is an excerpt from The Alphabet Bomber: A Lone Wolf Terrorist Ahead of His Time (Potomac Books, 2019) by Jeffrey Simon. On the evening of August 8, 1974, Americans gathered around their television sets to witness an event … Continue reading Excerpt: The Alphabet Bomber
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