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UC Berkeley's Department of History is one of the top-ranked history departments in the nation. Our faculty's research covers almost the entirety of recorded history and spans most of the globe.

From Cal dad to Cal history graduate

How two graduating siblings found their ‘second act’ at UC Berkeley

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History Alumnus Benjamin Nathans Wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize

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Benjamin Nathans

Historian Thomas Dandelet on how Pope Francis’s successor will shape the future of the Catholic Church

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Janaki Bakhle's "Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva" is nominated for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography

History professor explores how California’s past shaped its current-day public policy issues

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150W: Women in the Department of History

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