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Prof. Marcuse, April 2004 Harold Marcuse, October 2010

HAROLD MARCUSE
(current office hours, also under news, below; CV)

Professor (Ph.D., Univ. of Michigan, 1992)
Fields: Modern German History & Public History

Department of History, University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9410
Tel: no office phone; Fax (805) 893-7671

email: marcuse@history.ucsb.edu


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News (last updated January 9, 2021)
(see also page with archived old news; visitor statistics & guestbook at bottom)

  • August 2021: I will be teaching Hist 223AB in W'22 & S'22; and Hist 2c and 500 in S'22.
  • Jan. 9, 2021: Just posted to my Niemoeller Quotation page, and on Facebook and Twitter--feel free to share:
    "First they came for the Malheur Wildlife Refuge, and I did nothing. then they came to Charlottesville, and I said nothing. Then they came for the Michigan statehouse, and I looked away. When they came for Congress my party had already lost the Senate, so I could safely say something."

Niemoeller's quote applied to Mitch Mconnell and Lindsey Graham

This is a restatement of German pastor Martin Niemoeller's famous mea culpa statement in the late 1940s and early 1950s to suit our time.
I ask: Will having them cower under their desks and get frog-marched to a secure location, like the schoolchildren they refuse to protect from mass shooters, be a lesson to them that sticks?
Oh, I forgot to add Mother's husband Mike Pence, bravest, cravenest of them all.
Background photo by Andrew Harnik, AP.

  • July 9, 2020: After a website domain reorganization (from www.history.ucsb.edu/ to marcuse.faculty.history.ucsb.edu/ as the base URL) I've done a number of search-replaces to try to fix broken links to images and pdf. If you find a broken link to something you want to see, try editing the URL manually--and if you would, let me know so I can fix it.
    Also, I've made some important updates to my Niemoeller Quotation Page ("First they came for the Communists, ...") with new material I've found and received.
  • Apr. 1, 2020: Spring 2020 VIRTUAL Office Hours Tue 11-12:15pm & by appt.
    I'm co-teaching a new "Engaging Humanities" course, INT 137RP "Reinventions of the Past in Germany and Japan," with Prof. Rambelli (Religious Studies) this term. Due to the Covid isolation my W4-5pm section and our Thu 11-12:15 Roundtable lecture will be conducted via zoom, with recordings posted/linked on the course Gauchospace website. We are also creating a more permanent, publicly accessible website to archive this course.
  • Sept. 5, 2018: Added to my Publications and Hitler Project pages: my review essay discussing Thomas Weber's 2017 Hitler biography, Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi (New York: Basic, 2017), 422 pages. . (8 page pdf of author's last version)
    • I was one of three authors who wrote essays on the book for the Israeli journal Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust, for their June 2018 issue. The author's response to our essays was published as well (Dapim June 2018 TOC)
  • Sept. 3, 2018: Added to my Niemöller Quotation page:
    I often receive requests for evaluation or comment on uses of the quotation. For instance, in Durham, North Carolina the initiative FirstTheImmigrants.org created a website and bumper sticker/yard sign templates to mobilize people to speak out against the Trump administration's anti-immigration policies. My involvement was to advise them on the history of the saying (that is, what version to consider original) and their rationale for modifying it for our current context to start with immigrants. See their page on the "Bystanders Credo" for details.
  • Feb. 1, 2018: Added to Publications page an article summarizing my most-read and most-cited research::

Research Projects (see also Projects Index page) (back to top)


Research Narrative (back to top)

Spitzweg's "Scholar" , 1865
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 [2/2013: from web archive].)

  • 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

Selected publications (back to top)
(for a fuller listing with links to texts see my publications page)
Steine des Anstosses, cover 1985 exhibition about post-1945 monuments and memorials (German)
full illustrated version
Dachauer Hefte, volume 6 1990 history of Dachau, 1945-68
(in German)
draft w/o notes
Lessons and Legacies, volume 3 cover 1999 essay about aesthetics of Holo. memorials
draft w/o notes
Thumbnail of Legacies of Dachau: The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933-2001 2001 monograph about Dachau, 1890-present
var. materials
Dachauer Hefte issue 19, cover 2003 essay about forgotten mass grave, 1949
text with notes
1968: The World Transformed 1998 essay about Holo in US, Germ., Isr.
text with notes

Courses (links go directly to course websites or syllabi; bold links are current courses) (back to top)

Lower Division

Upper Division

Honors & Graduate

Freshman Seminars

Survey Courses

German History

Holocaust History

Seminars
(Reading, Research)

194h: Senior Honors Seminar;
199ra: Oral History Project

GE1
(genocides in hist, lit, film)
(4 hrs/wk)

Int94
(1 hr/wk)
Spr. 2009:
Hitler & Nazism,
1925-2009

2c:
World History

(Fall 2009)

(Hist 500)

4c:
Western Civ

(final time in 2000)

133a:
1800-1900

(Fall 2006)
133b:
1900-1945

(Winter 2009)
133c:
1945-present

(Spring 2007)

33d:
introductory

(no prereq.s)
(Fall 2005)

133d:
advanced

(Winter 2010)

133q:
Readings

(Winter 2010)

133p:
Proseminar

(Spring 2009)

CompLit 184ee
(genocides in hist, lit, art)

200e: Readings in German History, 1800-present

201e: Readings on special topics (Germany, memory)
(Winter 2007)

233ab [or 217bc]: 20 week graduate research seminar
(next offering 2011?)

See also the UCSB General Catalog listing of history courses; currently scheduled history courses.
With some reservations I offer a link to the Prof. Marcuse page at RateMyProfessors.com.

Personal background (back to top)

  • my CV is the standard roadmap of my academic life.
  • I put together a page of notes about myself that conference panel chairs can use to introduce me before public presentation. (updated 6/09)
  • in Jan. 2005 I made a "personal page" at www.marcuse.org

Archived Guestbook Entries, 1999-2006
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Since July 2017 Sparklit too has ended its Guestbook service, so this guestbook below is defunct, sorry.
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page created Nov. 1997 (web archive has versions starting Dec. 1998); last updated: see news at top.
mailto: marcuse@history.ucsb.edu