ACLU Executive Director to Speak at History Commencement  The Department of History is pleased to announce that Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the America Civil Liberties Union, will address 2013 graduates at this year’s commencement ceremonies. “We are very excited this year to have as our commencement speaker Anthony Romero of the American Civil Liberties Union,” said Department Chair... Read More |
History’s DeLay Awarded Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship  Wars remade power relations in the Americas during the long nineteenth century. Everyone trying to advance or resist these transformations needed guns, but only in Europe and the eastern United States were guns made in quantity. How, then, did the hemisphere’s imperialists, Indians, slaves, revolutionaries, secessionists, schemers, autocrats,... Read More |
Two History Majors Named Fiat-Lux Winners  The Fiat Lux Remix contest invited students, faculty and staff members to revisit images of UC campuses commissioned in the mid-1960s by then-President Clark Kerr and taken by legendary photographer Ansel Adams – and published in the book Fiat Lux – and give them their own spin. The seven winners had their creations displayed (along with other... Read More |
The Kids Are Alright: A conversation with childhood historian Paula Fass  Professor Fass has devoted much of her academic career to bringing this kind of historical perspective to the subject of childhood. Granted, her own books have focused primarily on childhood in modern America. Read More |
