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... 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,... 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... 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 |
History Retains Top Ranking According U.S. News & World Report  Spending summers combing through 2000-year-old coins in an archive may seem extreme. But at the UC Berkeley Department of History, that extensive research gained new understanding about the functions of the Ancient Roman economy. It’s that type of investment and initiative that once again placed UC Berkeley... Read More |
Peterson Lends Film Analysis to “BackStory With the American History Guys” 
UC Berkeley History Professor Mark Peterson has made his second contribution to “BackStory With The American History Guys,” a weekly Virginia Public Radio program and podcast that provides historical perspective... Read More |
Hollinger Presented Distinguished Service Award from College of Letters and Science  Preston Hotchkis Professor of History David Hollinger ‘70 has been named the recipient of the 2011-2012 Distinguished Service Award by the Division of Social Sciences College of Letters and Science. The Distinguished Service Award is designed to encourage and reward faculty... Read More |
Shagan’s “The Rule of Moderation” Wins John Ben Snow Prize and Leo Gershoy Award  Department of History Chair Ethan Shagan's 2011 book The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England (Cambridge) has been... Read More |
Professor John Connelly Wins John Gilmary Shea Book Prize 
Published by Harvard Univeristy Press, From Enemy to Brother exams the circumstances surrounding Catholic Church’s acceptance of Jews following the Second Vatican Council in 1965. Prior to Vatican II, Connelly posits, the Church had taught for... Read More |
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Henry May, 1915-2012
Henry F. May, one of his generation’s most distinguished historians, died Saturday, September 29, at the age of 97. May was Margaret Bryne Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of California Berkeley, where he had taught from 1952 until his retirement in 1980. He was a prominent campus citizen throughout... Read More |
Bring UC History Home, Podcasts and Webcasts Available 
History enthusiasts all over the world now have access to lectures and seminars from the UC Berkeley Department of History. Headed by Berkeley Educational Technology Services (ETS), webcast.berkeley.edu is UC Berkeley's central service for online video and audio for students and... Read More |
History Alumnus John Christopher Stevens ’85 Mourned  The Department of History is deeply saddened to learn this morning of the death of one of our alumni, Ambassador John Christopher Stevens ’85, in an attack on the United States consulate in Libya. The life of Ambassador Stevens represents everything we hope for in our students. He majored in history to learn about the world,... Read More |
Welcome Back from History Chair Ethan Shagan  Welcome back to Berkeley! This is a very exciting year for the Department of History, and I'm delighted to be taking over as chair at such an auspicious moment. We're back on top in the national rankings of history departments, we have three new faculty searches running this year, we have an extra-large cohort of graduate... Read More |
Professors Henkin and Peterson appear on public radio program “BackStory with the American History Guys”  Department of History faculty members David Henkin and Mark Peterson have recently contributed to “BackStory with the American History Guys,” a public radio program and podcast run out of the University of Virginia. “BackStory” provides historical background on current events and is hosted by historians Ed Ayers, Peter... Read More |
History Alumna Wins Tony Award  “During my time as a student at UCB, I was handed a list of occupations of former history majors” recently noted History alumna, Paloma Young ’01. “I don't remember Costume Designer being on the list, but I was inspired by the staggering breadth the list represented.” Just more than a decade after graduating... Read More |
History Undergraduates Published in Research Journals  Department of History Undergraduates Jiayi Zhou and Peter Worger have had research accepted for publication in a pair of widely respected academic journals. Students of Associate Professor Victoria Frede, Zhou’s research will appear in The Journal of Slavic Military Studies while Worger’s work will be highlighted in ... Read More |
Tom Brady Named Emeritus Professor of the Year  Peder Sather Chair of History Thomas Brady has been named the 2012 Emeritus Professor of the Year by the UC Berkeley Emeriti Association (UCBEA). A luminary within the field of German Reformation studies, Brady has been a... Read More |
History Graduate Students Participate in Program to Mentor Undergraduates  Fourteen graduate students from the Department of History have been selected to participate in a pilot Student Mentoring and Research Teams (S.M.A.R.T) program. Overseen by the UC-Berkeley Graduate Division, S.M.A.R.T matches undergraduates with advanced graduate student mentors to conduct research that will constitute valuable... Read More |
Clio’s Scroll Wins Best Journal Award from the ASUC  Clio’s Scroll, the UC Berkeley Undergraduate History Journal, has been named the 2011-2012 recipient of the Best Journal Award by the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC). Produced by Phi Alpha Theta, Clio’s Scroll provides an opportunity for undergraduate History majors to research and publish on a wide... Read More |
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Our 2012 Graduates Give Back For the first time in the history of our department, or any UCB department, our graduating majors are initiating the donation of a class gift specifically for their home unit. The New Alumni Challenge will support this initiative by matching and thus doubling the contributions of our students. And the chair of the department has pledged to... Read More |
