Our June pick is Javier Zamora's beautiful memoir 'Solito.'

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🚨The Western History Association is seeking a new editor or editors and a new institutional home for its award-winning, flagship journal, the Western Historical Quarterly. Deadline is August 15, 2024. You can view the full call for proposals here: bit.ly/4ddJGWb

Congratulations to Hector Tobar on the well-deserved Zócalo Public Square Book Prize🏆 I'll be joining Héctor next month for a deep dive into 'Our Migrant Souls' and the Latino experience -- hope to see you there!

You can register for this free event here: zps.la/bpevent14

Héctor Tobar (Hector Tobar) is the author of six books, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and a professor at UC Irvine. He's our 2024 Book Prize winner for 'Our Migrant Souls.' Check out our interview with him and RSVP for our event with him on June 13. zps.la/bpwin24

Great video on how local and Indigenous crews are helping to manage wildfire in Karuk Aboriginal Territory:

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Thrilled and honored to have had the opportunity to share my family's story & the history of Los Angeles Chinatown as part of Saving Places’ #supportchinatowns campaign. #aapiheritagemonth artsandculture.google.com/story/xQXxCxLg…

“In reality, what does the secondary US history curriculum look like? And what do teachers actually bring to their classrooms?” In #AHAPerspectives , Jim Grossman addresses these questions and more with results from an AHA research project. historians.org/research-and-p…

Associate professor UC Riverside, andré carrington explores the respected company that Octavia E. Butler was surrounded by in her lifetime and the communities that observe her legacy today.

From the latest Verso, read “Community, Then and Now”: bit.ly/3QUj2Z8

Author Javier Zamora's memoir is the June California Book Club selection. altaonline.com/california-boo…

Our friend and colleague Will Gow in L.A. Times Opinion:

'Too many people dismiss Chinatown’s pagoda-style roofs, fortune cookies and wishing well as inauthentic representations of Asia and Asian Americans. Instead, we should embrace them as reminders that neither the popular image

Don't forget to join us today at noon for a conversation with curators from our Pacific Standard Time Presents exhibition, Form and Landscape!

RSVP for the webinar: bit.ly/formandlandsca…

Sun @ 2pm: The #Lancaster Museum of Art & History is hosting a panel discussion titled “Native Antelope Valley” as part of its new exhibition 'This Valley is Sacred: The Ancestors are Speaking' -> eventbrite.com/e/native-antel… #AntelopeValley

We're hiring up to three postdoctoral researchers for our new Climate and Carbon Management Initiative! Working with an interdisciplinary team, the postdocs will conduct research on very long-duration, permanent, and/or engineered #CarbonRemoval .
Apply: bit.ly/3K3Mw2D

📢Don't forget our awards cycle is open. All these awards are due on June 15th!!! Check out our awards page for more information: bit.ly/3vx5x9R

Fascinating new piece on the history of Smokey Bear--

'Scholars have examined the Smokey campaign’s racialized, nationalist discourse, yet none have grappled with the campaign’s settler colonial logic, itself replete with gendered exclusion and speciesism.'

Join us for a conversation with Elliott West about his sweeping new book, Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion.

Winner of the 2024 Bancroft Prize in American History and a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in History.

RSVP: bit.ly/continentalrec…

See my answer in next tweet. “These spaces have historic cultural value and meaning for tribal people, and we’re asking them to share. How do we graciously acknowledge their generosity in sharing this land with us by taking good care of it ourselves?” hcn.org/articles/will-…

This looks like a terrific conference about one of Southern California's most important writers.

And did you know that Octavia Butler's papers are part of The Huntington's collections?

'If Californians can’t name a handful of state parks, they won’t recognize the threat when Sacramento defers investment in the system or — as is inevitably happening again — attempts to cut funding.'

If you read one thing this weekend it should be ICW grad student Abigail Gibson's powerful new piece, “The Specters of the Housing Crisis in Section 8 Los Angeles.”

It is a searing indictment of a long history of housing inequality in LA:
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