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Alaska Native elders remember wartime invasion, relocation, and land reclamation

Alaska Native Resilience

Voices from World War II

By Holly Miowak Guise

Nordic Utopia?

African Americans in the Twentieth Century

Edited by Leslie Anne Anderson

From Forest Farm to Sawmill

Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State

By Shuxuan Zhou

China’s Camel Country

Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier

By Thomas White

The Xi Jinping Effect

Edited by Ashley Esarey and Rongbin Han

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Megan A. Smetzer Awarded Eldredge Prize for “Painful Beauty” from the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Lisa Gail Collins Shortlisted for “Stitching Love and Loss”
The Smithsonian American Art Museum awarded the Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art to Megan A. Smetzer for her book Painful Beauty: Tlingit Women, Beadwork, and the Art of Resilience, calling it a “timely, cross-disciplinary revitalization of American art history.” Part of the University of Washington Press’ Native Art of the […]
Q&A with Kimberly Jensen, author of “Oregon’s Others”
In the era of the First World War and its aftermath, the quest to identify, restrict, and punish internal enemy “others,” combined with eugenic thinking, severely curtailed civil liberties for many people in Oregon and the nation. In Oregon’s Others, Kimberly Jensen analyzes the processes that shaped the growing surveillance state of the era and […]