News (last updated June 27, 2008)
(see also page with archived old news; visitor statistics & guestbook at bottom)

• 6/27/08: I've just made a History Dept. Location page for visitors to the department.
• 5/1/08: My Spring 2008 office hours: Tue. 2-3, Thu 2-3.
• 10/16/07: New presentation added: Exhibiting Dachau, 1945-2005. The on-line version includes 32 slides with comments.
• 2008-2009 teaching schedule (last updated 5/1/08--future quarters tentative)
  Wint 08: Hist 133D: The Holocaust in German History (2008 website)
                Hist 133Q: Readings in Holocaust History (website)
  Spr. 08: Hist 2c: World History, 1700-present (website)[T-Th 12:30-1:45]
                Hist 500: Seminar for Teaching Assistants (syllabus)
                Int 94 (freshman seminar): Portrayals of Hitler, 1925-2008
                         Room TBA, Wed. 2-2:50, (website)
• Fall 08:   Hist 133C: 20th Century Germany: 1945-present (2007 website)
  Wint 09: Hist 133B: 20th Century Germany: 1900-1945 (2008 website)
                Hist 217A/201E: Readings in Public History: Museums (Coll. Memory website)
  Spr. 09:  Hist 133P: Proseminar in German History (website)

• Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site Project page
  (concentration camp memorial site: links and documents)
• German History Links page
  (links to scholarly resources; this is my browser home screen)
• Günther Anders page (German philosopher, 1902-1992)
• Herbert Marcuse Official website (German-American philosopher & my grandfather, 1898-1979); massive updates to Publications and Books About pages, 6/15/05
• Hitler in History Project
• Holocaust Oral History Project website
  (the story of a Holocaust survivor, with student-prepared "how-to" pages)
• Leonhard Roth page (priest imprisoned in Dachau, lived 1904-1960)
• Martin Niemöller Quotation page (origin of "First they came for the Communists ...") (updated Feb. 2007 with a pre-1955 source) (major update planned 2007)
• Reception History: Definition and Quotations page
  (this is my approach to history)(update Aug. 2005)
• 
  The UCSB mnogo engine supposedly has more up-to-date indexing; otherwise the google site search is superior for returning important pages:

Research Narrative (back to top)

Carl Spitzweg, "Scholar," 1865

I would call the kind of history I do "reception history" (definition and quotations about it).
In April 2003 the UCLA Daily Bruin did a story on UC professors conducting research on Holocaust-related topics. It contains a short summary about my research.(Also syndicated nationally in PBS's Washington Week.)

• Holocaust education in Germany, and the United StatesUses and effectiveness of technology in history educationHolocaust museums, memorials, and memorial sites Popular conceptions of the Nazi era in Germany, 1933-present New social movements in West Germany (esp. 1950s and 1960s) Oppositional movements in East Germany Dealing with the legacy of Stalinism in former East Germany (e.g. Abwicklung, Stasi, continuity of elites)
• The role of formative historical experiences in creating "age cohorts" with commonalities of outlook

• Legacies of Dachau: The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933-2001 (Cambridge University Press, 2001), 601 pages, 88 maps and illustrations.
• US $34.95 at amazon.com (much cheaper used), £22.36 from amazon.co.ukpublisher's desk copy policy
• Selected reviews (full texts of most reviews are on my Dachau page):
  • review by Nicholas Stargardt in the Times Literary Supplement, Jan. 7, 2002, review by Galina Vromen in Ha'aretz, Nov. 8, 2001review by Istvan Deak in The New Republic, Nov. 5, 2001 [archived version]review by Wolfgang Benz in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 18, 2001 [archived version]
  • more reviews available on my Dachau page
• "West German Strategies of Commemoration," in: Dimensions: A Journal of Holocaust Studies 3:2(1987). original text, published article w/ ill. p. 1, p. 2

  Carl Spitzweg (artist from Dachau) "Book Worm", 1850

  "Das ehemalige Konzentrationslager Dachau: Der mühevolle Weg zur Gedenkstätte, 1945-1968," in: Dachauer Hefte 6(1990), 182-205 [reprinted Munich: dtv, 1994]. text without notes

  "The Revival of Holocaust Awareness in West Germany, Israel, and the United States" in: Carole Fink, Philipp Gassert, Detlef Junker (eds.), 1968: The World Transformed (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 421-38. text without notes, text with notes (scanned/OCR copy by a course at Univ. of Erfurt, Spr. 2002, available on archive.org), publisher's web page, used in a Spring 2003 course The World Transformed ? – The 1960s from an International Perspective at Rutgers Univ.

  "Dachau: The Political Aesthetics of Holocaust Memorials," in: Peter Hayes (ed.), Lessons and Legacies III: Memory, Memorialization, and Denial (Evanston, IL: Northwestern Univ. Press, 1999), 138-168, 278-287. text without notes; used in an "Art and the Holocaust" course at Depaul Univ., Fall 2000

• "Experiencing the Jewish Holocaust in Los Angeles: The Beit Hashoah--Museum of Tolerance," on-line journal Other Voices 2:1(2000).

Personal background (back to top)

• my CV is the standard roadmap of my academic lifeI put together a page of notes about myself that conference panel chairs can use to introduce me before public presentation.
• in Jan. 2005 I made a "personal page" at www.marcuse.org

• In case you logged on to find out, the leftist philosopher Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was my grandfather.
  For more information about him, see:
  • a short biography I drafted for a presentation in 1997, or
  • the Official Herbert Marcuse website I made about him at my family's marcuse.org web site.  
  See also my son Aaron's homepage and my page of links to other pages he's made Page of links with Activities for kids and information for parentsUCSB West Campus Point faculty housing homepage (where I live)