...; and a conclusion from Quincy Newell. © 2023 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association 2023 religion U.S. West nineteenth century If religion is a hard topic for historians, as Kathryn Lofton has recently observed, then the disciplinary preoccupations of U.S. western historians...

... and illustrates that humor can be used to justify genocidal policies. © 2022 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association 2022 American literature popular culture Native American characters Comic Indian, nineteenth century U.S. West On August 7, 1852, the popular humorous journal...

... recently begun to focus on the long history of incarceration throughout the U.S. West. The West provides a rich environment for examining the carceral state, especially as it relates to race and immigration. Additional articles in this special issue include Elliott Young on immigrant incarceration...

... in the U.S. West. After the enfranchisement of antipodean women at the turn of the twentieth century, American suffragists in turn gained inspiration from New Zealand and Australia. In the process, suffrage print culture focused on the political and social possibilities associated with the frontier...

.... Historicizing this violent past remains an imperative for new studies of the Pacific. © 2015 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association 2015 Pacific Ocean violence disease whaling California frontier U.S. West Hardly Pacific: Violence and Death in the Great Ocean DAVID IGLER...

...Verity G. McInnis The experiences of army officers’ wives stationed in British India and the U.S. West during the period 1830–1875 offer a critical dimension to understandings of imperialism. This comparative analysis argues that these women designed a distinct identity that blueprinted, directed...

... a long history of engaging the subject in the nineteenth century. This focus dovetails with recent critical works on race and gender in the U.S. West as well as transnational approaches to history. This article makes the case that the perspective on the nineteenth century provided by Chicano/a historians...

... women migration social movements comparative transnational Japan U.S. West Anti-prostitution Campaigns in Japan and the American West, 1890 1920: A Transpaci c Comparison KAZUHIRO OHARAZEKI The author is an independent scholar working in Japan; he received his doctorate from the State...