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Our 2024 Call for Papers awaits you! We'll meet July 31-August 2 at the University of Hawai'i. You can find it at pcb-aha.org/archives/1822

We agree, and at the PCB-AHA, we work hard to make sure our conferences are pleasant experiences.

Continuing with PCB-AHA award winners ... @Prof_NataliaM won the Norris and Carol Hundley Award for best book by a scholar living in our region for A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community, published by @ucpress. Congratulations!

@vsmyan's dissertation was “A Spectrum Apart: Chinese and Japanese American Republicans and Conservatives, 1920-1990.” We are proud to honor and encourage outstanding researchers in all fields of history. 2/2

Continuing with our awards! The W. Turrentine Jackson Dissertation Award committee also offered an honorable mention to @vsmyan of @Stanford, now at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for her work. 1/2

The winner is Joseph David Schiller of @OUHistDept for “Zombie Miners: Life, Death, and Reanimation in the Wide Rural Rust Belt.” He is now with @OUPress. More winners to come!

First, our awards from @PacHistReview. The W. Turrentine Jackson Award for outstanding dissertation on the history of the American West in the twentieth century. It is named for a longtime professor at @History_UCDavis who specialized in western and public history. 2/

The PCB-AHA conference is now behind us, and we hope those who attended enjoyed it. We would like to announce a few things related to the conference! We would like to share information about our award winners, who were honored at our awards ceremony. 1/

#Florida's new African American history standards merit scrutiny far beyond treatment of slavery. miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/…

PCB-AHA President @PenielJoseph, who delivered a terrific presidential address today, with a terrific essay on the life and work of Charles Ogletree.

Today the PCB-AHA Graduate Student Caucus held a reception, and our conference has begun. Tag us @PCB_AHA!

Our conference begins Wednesday @csunorthridge with meetings and a graduate student reception, then panels, luncheons, and more Thursday and Friday. Tag us! And go to pcb-aha.org for the program and all the information.

Teaching the events of January 6—which are not a “moment” but the product of a long history—presents a familiar yet urgent challenge: how can students use historical knowledge & thinking to understand recent crises? Here are some resources that might help. historians.org/jan6resources

@JimGrossmanAHA with some wise words in this Washington Post commentary: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…

The Western Association of Women Historians @WAWHTweets features Judy Tzu-Chun Wu on "Rethinking US Feminism Through Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress." 3/3

The Camarillo Family Latino/a Scholars Luncheon features @OrnelasHigdon on "The Grapes of Conquest: Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine, 1769-1920." 2/

Put an X on your calendar for August 9-11 for our annual conference. And don't miss our two luncheons with great speakers! eventbrite.com/e/2023-pcb-aha… 1/

Don't forget to register for our pending conference, including for luncheons and museum tours! eventbrite.com/e/2023-pcb-aha…

Don't forget to register for the PCB-AHA conference! eventbrite.com/e/2023-pcb-aha…

We have a list of PCB-AHA program sessions, including President @PenielJoseph, our luncheons, and our awards ceremony/reception, at pcb-aha.org/archives/1792. We'll have the more detailed program available soon!