Old News/Announcements
from Harold Marcuse's Homepage

2003-2004 teaching schedule [removed Sept. 1, 2003]

• Spring 2003 teaching schedule:
  Hist 2C  (World History): 2c course website
  Hist 233A  (first half of a graduate research seminar)(2003 233AB syllabus)
  Hist 199ra: Holocaust oral history project (see also the description in the FRAP directory)
• Fall 2003 teaching schedule:
  Hist 33D, "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Holocaust" (2003 course web site)
  Hist 233B  (second half of graduate research seminar) (2003 233AB syllabus)
• Winter 2004: Perhaps Hist 201E-Germany (an advanced graduate reading seminar), OR
  Hist 133Q, reading seminar on the Holocaust

[removed Dec. 23, 2004]

• Spring 2004 office hours: Wed. 1-2, Thu. 11-noon
  • Spring 2004: Hist 133P (133p course website).

[removed Feb. 20, 2005]

• Jan. 2003-July 2004: I amwas co-chair of the UCSB work group on General Education. To follow the group's work, go to the: GE work group page.
• January 2003: My book Legacies of Dachau has won the Conference Group for Central European History's Hans Rosenberg book prize for the best book on central European history published in the 2000 and 2001. text+image of award letter
• July 2004: images from anti-Jewish children's book test page;
  "Personal Remembrance and History" workshop page added under presentations.

[removed May 12, 2005]

• Sept. 2004: 2004-05 teaching schedule: on research leave Fall, W, Spr.
  (no office hours, contact me by e-mail: marcuse@history.ucsb.edu)
• 2/20/05: On April 29 I will be presenting at a German-French colloquium in Munich: "Memories and History: From the Experiential World of the Concentration Camps."
  My presentation is titled: "How Dachau has Changed: Ideas and Goals of Its Presentation, 1945-2005" (in German). I will upload the colloquium program when it is available.
  3/13/05: The conference website is: www.dachau2005.com; blurb about my presentation (French)
• 3/29/05: I've uploaded the remaining 6 133p proseminar papers from spring 2004 to the 133p papers index page.
• January 2005: I attended the conference "Genocides: Forms, Causes and Consequences" in Berlin, Jan. 13-15: Haus der Kulturen der Welt page; program (from: http://www.hist.net/ag-genozid/namibianwar). After that I will be in Dachau, Munich and Frankfurt.
  1/27/05: outline of my presentation "Memories of Genocide and the Development of Collective Memories" added to Presentations page.
• Dec. 29, 2004: web site reconfiguration, with separate Publications, Presentations, and Courses pages; new personal page at marcuse.org.
• October 2004: Legends about Nazi Germany pages created as part of my Dachau Project;
  also GSA roundtable handout on Historians and the Internet added.
  • In my quest to understand meaningful education I've moved from UCSB's GE to the "No Child Left Behind" Act in our public schools. I'm collecting data on what NCLB means at my local Isla Vista School.

[removed 12/20/06]

• 9/28/06: Fall 2006 office hours: Mondays and Tuesdays, noon-1pm.
  Major update of my Dollars-to-Marks Historical Currency Conversion page.
  Coming soon: New Hist 133A: 19th Century German History course homepage.
• 2006-07 teaching schedule (last updated 10/29/06: W07 times)
  Fall 06:  Hist 133A: 19th Century Germany (lecture) (1997 syllabus, website):
                                    Girvetz 2121, MWF 11-11:50 (9/25: waiting list begun)

[removed 6/21/07]

• 12/20/06: Winter 2007 office hours: Tuesdays 12:30-2:30 & by appointment
• 3/28/07: Office hours Spring 2007: Monday 12:30-1:30 & Thursdays noon-1pm.
• 2006-08 teaching schedule (last updated 12/23/06: W07 times)
  Fall 06:  Hist 133A: 19th Century Germany (lecture) (2006 syllabus, website):
                                    Girvetz 2121, MWF 11-11:50 (9/25: waiting list begun)
  Wint 07: Hist 133B: 20th Century Germany, I: 1900-1945 (lecture) (2007 website):
                                    HSSB 4020 , TR 11-12:15
                Hist 201E: Graduate reading seminar in German and public history:
                                    HSSB 4201, Mon. 2-4:50 (2007 website)
  Spr. 07: Hist 133C: 20th Century Germany, II: 1945-1990 (2007 website)
                Hist 217B: Graduate research seminar, part 1 (2007 syllabus)
                                    2007 emphasis: public history and memory. Thur. 9-11am
                Int 94 (freshman seminar): Representing Hitler and Nazism, 1925-2006
                                    HSSB 3201, Tue. 1-1:50, enroll code 50237 (2007 website)

[removed 9/23/07]

• 8/5/06: new review posted: Wittmann and Pendas on Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial
  (note 9/25/06: most of body text removed pending print publication; 2/12/07: restored)
• 9/26/06: review of Boris Barth, Dolchstosslegenden (2003) added to reviews page
• 2/22/07: New pre-1955 source for Niemöller Quotation found. It was republished in 1966, which might explain the reappearance in the Congressional Record in 1968.
• 4/26/07: created a homepage for Hist 217ab
• Last updates to major pages: technology presentation and book presentation in Dachau, both on presentations page; also Jason Dawsey's biographical prospectus added to Guenther Anders page (Sept. 2004), new notes & discussion document on the Martin Niemoeller page (Feb. 2007), and new reviews of my book on the Dachau page (Feb. 2005); massive updates to Herbert Marcuse Publication and Books About pages, June 2005.

[removed 1/8/08]

• 6/2/07: I'm starting a page for my Zotero/Endnote presentation.
• 9/23/07: My Fall 2007 office hours: Thursdays, 12-2.
  • The UCSB History department is finally updating its website with a major overhaul, and I've just completed my new departmental Harold Marcuse faculty homepage.
    [note Oct. 2015: dept. website has been updated; my new page in 2015]

[removed 5/1/08]

• 1/8/08: My Winter 2008 office hours: Mon. 11-noon, Tue. 2-3.
  I've created a Grade Distributions page with data from my lecture courses 2002-2007.
• Fall 07:  Hist 217C: Graduate research seminar, part 2 (2007 Hist 217 homepage)

[removed 10/30/08]

• 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)

[removed 6/10/09]

• 10/30/08: My Fall 2008 office hours: Wed. 1-3.
• 4/1/09: My Spring 2009 office hours: Tue & Thu 3:15-3:45; Wed. 1-2.
  Hist 133p meets in HSSB 1174 Tue 2-3:15, and in HSSB 4020 Thu 2-2:50.
• 4/6/09: Office hours on 4/8 and 4/9 are cancelled. Email me to make an appointment.

[removed 10/20/09]

• 6/10/09: summer office hours by appointment
• 9/14/09: Fall schedule (so far): Hist 2c TR 8-9:15; office hours TR 9:30-10:30, Hist 2ch honors section T [12-1-2-3?] canceled due to budget cuts; Hist 500 M 1-3.
• 9/23/09, 9pm. Sept. 24: First day of class: although I had previously been on the fence about canceling class completely on the Sept. 24 Day of Action (I thought I'd use most of the time to relate course content to the issues at hand), the UC Administration's intransigent stance and adding insult to injury by raising students fees a huge amount, I've decided I must participate in the strike action instead. You'll find me during class time on a picket line on the west side of campus, perhaps the Pardall corridor. See my Hist 2c webpage for more info.
• 9/24/09, 7am: "Crashing" Hist 2c. There is very little chance that this will be possible. As per the poilicy on the Hist .dept. homepage, sign in at the first lecture on 9/29, then put yourself on lists for and at specific sections.Go to Hist 2c homepage for more details.
• 9/24/09, 7am: No office hours today, but I'll hold special office hours this Friday and Monday, noon-1pm, HSSB 4222. NOTE: I moved my office to an open one across the hall over the summer, to get away from the hot sun in the afternoons.

[removed 1/17/2010]

• 9/26/09: my Fall 2009 office hours: TR 9:40-10:30, in HSSB 4222.

[removed 5/2/2010]

• 2009-2010 teaching schedule(last updated 6/10/09)
  Fall  09: Hist 2c: World History, 1700-present (website); Hist 500 for TAs (08 syllabus)
  Wint 10: Hist 133D: The Holocaust in Europan History (2010 website)
                Hist 133DR: Readings in Holocaust History (133Q website)
  Spr. 10: 2-unit L&S honors program seminar (1-unit freshman seminar version)
• 5/21/09: I participated in a panel about Academic Freedom at UCSB, in regards to the allegations that Prof. Bill Robinson of Sociology "abused" it by sending an email about the Israeli occupation of Palestine to his class. The blog SantaBarbara4AcademicFreedom posted video clips of the event on youtube, including two of my presentation (pt. 6=9:24, pt.7=4:31).
  • At the end of Sept. 2009 my first clip had 35 views, my second 43, neither had any comments. Pt. 1 had 122 views, pt. 2 31, pt. 4 27.
  • 10/18: pt. 6: 40 views, pt. 7: 50 views, no comments
• 1/17/10: my Winter 2010 office hours: M 4-5pm; W 1-2pm, in HSSB 4222.

removed 7/13/2010

• 5/2/10: my Spring 2010 office hours: W 1-2:30pm; Th 12-12:30pm,
  in HSSB 4222.
  • Office hours on May 5 and 6 are cancelled; contact me to arrange a meeting.

removed 12/21/2010

• Sept 21, 2010: Fall 2010 office hours: Mondays 1-2, Wednesdays 1:15-2:15.

removed 10/14/2011

• 2010-2011 teaching schedule (last updated 5/2/10)
  Fall  10: Hist 204: Research Workshop (2010 website)
  Wint 11: Hist 133B: Germany, 1900-1945 (2009 website with syllabus)
                Hist 200WD: Readings in World History (200wd website; links page; films page)
  Spr. 11: Hist 133C: Germany 1945-present (website) Tue-Thu, 3:30-4:45, Phelps 1119
                Hist 133P: Proseminar in German History (133P website), Mon-Wed, 3:30-4:45, HSSB
               INT 184hm: Honors Seminar "Portrayals of Hitler, 1900-1930s," M 10-11:50, HSSB 4202
• 6/27/08: I've just made a History Dept. Location page for visitors to the department.
• July 20, 2010: Two new presentations added at the bottom of my Presentations page: a July 2008 German text for a symposium honoring Barbara Distel, and an April 2010 keynote on the Lessons of the Holocaust as 48 ppt images in an 8 page pdf..
• Dec. 6, 2010: Three hilarious animations on xtranormal.com that speak from many professors' hearts, even if we don't have the guts to say it:
  • So you want a Ph.D. in the humanities?  (4:26)
    A bright motivated undergrad decides to ask her professor for a recommendation to graduate school.
  • So you want to be a historian?  (6:41)
    Uhh, maybe not? (Compare this Matt Groening cartoon on my grad students page)
  • One professor's fantasy responses to actual student questions  (3:31)
    Most students are great, but some you want to kill.
• Dec. 12, 2010: Hitler photo a forgery? I've made a Hitler and WWI Outbreak Photo page about this possibility, after posting about it on the yahoo group 3rdReichStudies An October 2010 article in Die Welt reported on the possibility that the widely-reproduced picture of Hitler in the Munich crowd cheering the outbreak of WWI is a forgery.

  Authentic video and possibly forged photo of Hitler on Aug. 2, 1914

• Dec. 21, 2010: Winter 2011 office hours: Mondays 4-5, Wednesdays 1-2.
  Note: Mondays I arrive from class often a few minutes late. No office hours on Wed., Feb. 2.
• Dec. 21, 2010: Hist 204: Writing Workshop course homepage created. 200wd course page in progress.
• Jan 28, 2011: Spring course information updated:
  • Hist 133C: Germany 1945-present (website) Tue-Thu, 3:30-4:45, Phelps 1119.
  • Hist 133P: Proseminar in German History (133P website), Mon-Wed, 3:30-4:45, HSSB 4041 (on Wednesdays HSSB2552). This course is intended for student who have taken Hist 133b or d, or are concurrently enrolled in 133c. We won't meet both days every week. Other students can enroll as space permits; student who had Hist 2c with me may get priority.
  • INT 184hm: Honors Seminar "Portrayals of Hitler, 1900-1930s," M 10-11:50, HSSB 4202
    (former course website; official description).
• Jan. 30, 2011: At long last!! I've added the remaining 30 handwritten pages of my journal of the trip to Lviv in August 1999 with Holocaust survivor Nina Morecki and her daughter Carol. Perhaps most interesting as a personal look into an Eastern bloc country 10 years after the end of the Cold War.
• Feb. 11, 2011: An inquiry from Hamburg, where the VVN is trying to revive interest in the Ohlsdorf memorial about which I wrote my MA thesis, prompted me to insert 4 missing pages into the pdf of my Master's thesis, and also add pdfs of a couple of papers I wrote at the Universities of Munich and Hamburg in the early 1980s: about the 12th century cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, and about Liberated Concentration Camp Inmates in the first postwar months. See my Publications page.
• March 28, 2011: Spring 2011 office hours: M, W 1-2pm.
• April 22, 2011: I've added a scan from a 1986 German book to my Niemoeller Quotation page, in which N. answers a question about when the "First they came for the Communists..." originated.
• 2011-2012 teaching schedule (last updated 1/5/12)
  Fall  11: Hist 2c, World History, 1700-present (2011 website)
  Wint 12: Hist 133D: The Holocaust in European History (2012 website; 2010 syllabus)
                Hist 133DR: Readings in Holocaust History (2012 website)
  Spr. 12: INT 184hm: Honors Seminar "Portrayals of Hitler, 1900-1930s" (Hitler project; course)
• August 18, 2011: My Hist 2c book order for Fall 2011 is now available.
• Oct. 7, 2011: My Fall 2011 office hours are T & Th, 9:30-10:30. Sometimes I'm a little late getting to my office from my class that ends at 9:15.
  On Oct. 18 (Tue), my office hour is postponed: 11:30-12:30.
• Jan. 5 , 2012: My Winter 2012 office hours are M 3:30-4:30; Thu 11:10-12:00.
• Spring 2012 office hours: W 1-2, Thu 3-4. But no office hours May 31-June 13. Back on June 14, 3pm.

Removed June 2013

• Sept. 26, 2012: I am on sabbatical leave during the Fall 2012 and Winter 2013 quarters. I am scheduled to teach Hist 133D and Hist 200WD in Spring 2013 (see below in these announcements).
• 2012-2013 teaching schedule (last updated 1/3/13)
  Fall  12: sabbatical leave
  Wint 13: sabbatical leave
  Spr. 13: Hist 133D The Holocaust in European History (course website )
               Hist 200WD Readings in World History (rudimentary 2011 website--used Gauchospace)
  [note: 200wd was replaced by Hist 133q because it did not fill up]

Removed March 2013

• Aug. 17-28, 2012: links to several articles about German Chancellor Merkel's visit to the Dachau memorial site (including one that quotes me) added to my Dachau page.
• Aug. 27, 2012: I've scanned several of my art history and history research papers from grad school in Germany in the early 1980s:
  • Baugeschichte des Baseler Münsters, Universität Freiburg, Oktober 1979 (Prof. Ernst Adam), 38 page pdf. See also the architectural history at: baslermuenster.ch/sub_architektur.
  • Die Deckenfresken der Klosterkirche St. Peter im Schwarzwald: Ein Zyklus über das Leben des hl. Petrus, Universität Freiburg, März 1981 (Prof. H. Wischermann), 31 page pdf
    • 1915 and 1917 articles about the frescos in St. Peter in München
    • Links in German: badischeseiten.de St. Peter page; town's webpage of the Klosterkirche
  • Die Kathedrale Notre-Dame zu Paris: Der Bau des 12. Jahrhunderts, Universität München (Prof. Berhard Schütz), Mai 1983. 24 text pages, 6 Seiten Anmerkungen & Bibliografie, 11 Seiten Abbildungen.
  • Widerstandsrecht und Gehorsamspflicht im späten 16. Jahrhundert in Schottland: George Buchanan "De iure regni apud Scotos" (1579) und James VI von Schottland, "Trew Law of Free Monarchies" (1598)--'De vero iure regni apud Scotos', Universität München (Prof. A. Seifert), August 1983, 40 page pdf; dreiseitiges Thesenpapier.
  • Die befreiten KZ-Häftlinge in der unmittelbaren Nachkriegszeit, Universität Hamburg (Dr. Ludwig Eiber), Februar 1984. 20 page pdf with bibliography; 2 pages handwritten archival notes; vierseitiges Thesenpapier
• Aug. 17, 2012: My 1990 article in the Dachauer Hefte about the postwar history of the Dachau camp has been translated into Polish: "BYŁA obozie koncentracyjnym w Dachau, 1945-1968," courtesy of Olga Parfyonova.
  (see also the listing on my Publications page for the original German article)
• Feb. 14, 2012: I've started a new Online Instruction page to collect links to recent articles and research on remote and digital learning.
• Sept. 29, 2013: Czech translation of my article "The Neglected Mass Graves: The Scandal about the Leiten Hill, 1949-50" is now available on the web: "Zanedbané masové hroby: Skandál kolem Leitenberg, 1949-1950." (Publications page; German original)
• 2013-2014 teaching schedule (last updated 9/29/13)
  • Fall 2013 Office Hours: MW 3:30-4:30.
  • Fall  2013: Hist 133B, Germany 1900-45 (description; prof's website); MW 2:00-3:15 Phelps 3515 (Fall 2014 syllabus; source exploration assignment, readings TOC)
  • Winter 2014:
    Hist 133C, Germany 1945-present (description; prof's website), MW 9:30-10:45, HSSB 4020
    Hist 133P: Proseminar in German History (description; prof's website), TR 11:00-12:15, HSSB 4041
    Int 94[hm] (Freshman Seminar): "The Environmental Movement in Germany: Why did the German Greens become the most successful environmental party in the world?" (Wed. 3-3:50pm in GIRV 1108)
    Description: In this seminar we will start by studying how Germans conceived of "nature" from the Romantic period of the early 1800s through industrialization and World War I to the Nazi period. After discussing "How green were the Nazis?" we will investigate the origins of the postwar environmental movement in the 1960s, the founding of the German Green Party in 1979, and its success winning seats in the national parliament in 1983. What personalities, topics and events contributed to its early success? What problems did it have to overcome before it became part of a national governing coalition from 1998 to 2005? For this period we will examine election posters and speeches, and biographies of prominent individuals to see why the party was able to create a core constituency of voters. [L&S Freshman seminar website; select tab "listings"]
  • Spr. 2014: Hist 2C: World History, 1700-present (prof's website)
    Hist 500: For TAs for Hist 2c only

Removed June 2014
[note: since Feb. 10, 2014 my entire site was accidentally taken off google search by my dept. IT person, using robots.txt. Exactly 6 months later, on Aug. 10, it came back "online"]

2014-2015 teaching schedule (last updated 3/29/14)

• Spring 2014 Office Hours: Tue 2-3pm, Wed. 11-noon. (5/7 canceled)
• Spr. 2014: Hist 2C: World History, 1700-present (prof's website), TR 12:30-1:45
  Hist 500: For TAs for Hist 2c only, Thu 2-3pm

Removed Jan. 2015

• Feb. 2014: [update: google began to include my site in search results again on Aug. 10, 2014]
  On Feb. 10, 2014 the UCSB History Dept IT person accidentally included this entire subsite (...) in a robots.txt Disallow list, which instructs search engines (like google) not to crawl and index certain web pages. Thus all pages on this site disappeared from search engine results, and the google search boxes on various pages no longer yield any results. Total page views immediately dropped from about 77,000/month to about 14,000/month (see this screenshot of access stats). We amended the robots.txt file in April, but as of late June my site is still invisible to search. [It looks like an exclusion automatically lasts for 6 months]
  If anyone wants to send me suggestions on how to remedy this, I'd love to hear--just email me.
• Oct. 3, 2014: My Fall 2014 office hours are: Mon 2-2:30; W 11-11:30, Thu 4-5. (in HSSB 4222)
  • For Hist 2c course materials go to my Fall 2014 Hist 2c page.

Removed May 2015:

• 2014-2015 teaching schedule (last updated 6/22/14)
  • Fall 2014:
    Hist 2C: World History, 1700-present, TR 2-3:15pm (prof's website)
    Hist 2CH: Honors Section for 2C, taught by prof, W 3-3:50pm
                    Interested students should email me for an enroll code.
    Hist 500: For TAs of Hist 2c only
    Hist 194AH: History Senior Honors Thesis Seminar, M11-1 (1997-98 syllabus from when I previously taught this course; bibliography of UCSB theses 1981-97)
  • Winter 2015: Hist 194BH: History Senior Honors Thesis Seminar, M 11-2pm
              Hist 133D: The Holocaust and Other Genocides (website with previous course materials)
  • Spring 2015: no regular courses
  May 2, 2014: UCSB Press Office just published an interview with me in a series on Holocaust remembrance: Andrea Estrada, "'A Brutal Life That Lasted Years and Years' UCSB historian Harold Marcuse looks at how remembrance changes over time."
• Jan. 5, 2015: My Winter 2015 Office Hours are Mondays & Wednesdays, 2-3pm.
• Jan. 5, 2015: I think I've been "had" by these "translations." I received a few more of them, looking more and more questionable, and a French professor at the University of Nancy alerted me to the fact that when one searches the names of these "translators" one finds a number of texts that were translated with google translate and posted on their blogs, which are hosted by Dutch, French and German auto-parts discounters. I presume this activity serves to boost the google page rank of those sites, which are probably branches of the same conglomerate. Anyone can generate translations like these.
  • Valeria Aleksandrova at <http://www.pkwteile.de/wissen/zapisy-z-dachau-wygrywa-nagroda-ksiazkowa>
    Natalie Harmann <http://www.besteonderdelen.nl/blog/?p=4801>
    Vicky Rotarova <http://www.piecesdiscount24.fr/edu/?p=6606>
  • August/October 2014: Natalie Harmann has published translations of two of my articles into French:
• "Commémoration de l’Holocauste: Une stratégie pour l’Allemagne de l’Ouest." (1986 original)
• "Se souvenir de la Rose Blanche: Les évaluations allemands, 1943-1993" (1992 original)

Removed 1/2/2016

• 2014-2015 teaching schedule (last updated 5/3/15)
  • Fall 2014:
    Hist 2C: World History, 1700-present, TR 2-3:15pm (prof's website)
    Hist 2CH: Honors Section for 2C, taught by prof, W 3-3:50pm
                    Interested students should email me for an enroll code.
    Hist 500: For TAs of Hist 2c only
    Hist 194AH: History Senior Honors Thesis Seminar, M11-1 (1997-98 syllabus from when I previously taught this course; bibliography of UCSB theses 1981-97)
  • Winter 2015: Hist 194BH: History Senior Honors Thesis Seminar, M 11-2pm
              Hist 133D: The Holocaust and Other Genocides (website with previous course materials)
  • Spring 2015: no regular courses
  • Fall 2015: Graduate seminar on "Digital History" (Fridays, 10am-1pm in HSSB 4041)
              Hist 133A: Germany 1800-1914 (TR 2-3:15 in Arts 1349)
  • Winter 2016: Hist 133B: Germany 1900-1945
  • Spring 2016: Hist 133R: Undergraduate Research Seminar in German or Genocide History
• May 3, 2015: My Spring 2015 Office Hours are Mondays & Wednesdays, 2-3pm (but not on May 13 or 20) .
• June 13, 2015: I published a short text and a few photos about the student-initiated and curated exhibition "We Remember: Acts of Love and Compassion in Isla Vista" on edhat.com. I've been trying to get "official" UCSB to sponsor the exhibition and allow it to continue beyond its short run of 20 opening days until the fall, so more students will have an opportunity to see it. Unfortunately without success.
• Sept. 26, 2015: Fall 2015 office hours are Mondays & Wednesdays, 3-4pm.

Removed 2/1/2018

• Feb. 23, 2015: New York Times staff reporter Eric Lichtblau has been promoting his 2014 book Nazis as Neighbors on a book tour and in interviews, and in the Times itself with a number of distortions, exaggerations and flat-out lies about the conditions in which Jewish DPs lived in the years after liberation in spring 1945. The Times did not print my or other corrections to the article, so I turned to the scholars' network H-German, which inaugurated a blog with our comments. It took a good bit of time to set up, with list editor Kira Thurman posting my submission, as well as Atina Grossmann's, which includes responses by Abraham J. Peck and Rebecca Boehling..
  • I also tweeted about it today. (I tweet interesting articles I read as @German_History.)
    June 2015: I see that Lichtblau responded in a separate thread on March 31, 2015. I will respond to him soon--he, in my opinion, grossly distorts what I wrote.
• Apr. 22, 2015: I'll be giving a talk at the Univ. of Arizona, Tucson: "Hitler: The Sources of Myths and Facts." My first public talk drawing from my Hitler reception history research. Blurb:
  Did Hitler have “Jewish blood” (ancestry)? Who thought so? Why? Did his family life predispose him towards violent behavior? Who explained Hitler that way, and why? When did he become an anti-semite? Was he always? What did make him that way? In this lecture Prof. Marcuse will examine several  widely circulating beliefs about Adolf Hitler. The goal is not so much to debunk the myths, but to show when, where, why, from whom,  and how the myths changed over time, and what efforts historians made to find sources that shed light on their veracity.
  • May 2015: video of talk published on youtube (77 views on 6/20/15)
• Oct. 2, 2015: Fall 2015 "Digital History" seminar homepage created, rudimentary, but with syllabus (2-page pdf with hyperlinks)
• 2015-2017 teaching schedule (updated 1/2/16)
  • Fall 2015: Graduate seminar on "Digital History" (Fridays, 10am-1pm in HSSB 4041)
              Hist 133A: Germany 1800-1914 (TR 2-3:15 in Arts 1349)
  • Winter 2016: Hist 133B: Germany 1900-1945 (TR 3:30-4:45 in Arts 1349)
  • Spring 2016: Hist 133R: Undergraduate Research Seminar in German or Genocide History
  • Fall 2016: Hist 2c, World History, 1700-present
  • Winter 2017: Hist 133c, Germany, 1945-present; Hist 201E, Collective Memory
  • Spring 2017: Hist 133d, The Holocaust and Other Genocides in European History
• Jan. 2, 2016: Winter 2016 Office Hours Mon & Wed., 3-4pm (not Feb. 22 & 24 however)

Removed July 2018

• Feb. 1, 2018: Just added to Publications page an article summarizing my most-read and most-cited research::
  • "The Origin and Reception of Martin Niemöller's Quotation 'First They Came for the Communists...'," in: Michael Berenbaum et al (eds.), Remembering for the Future: Armenia, Auschwitz, and Beyond (Paragon, 2016), 173-199. (18 page pdf; non-ocr version--2Mb instead of 12Mb)
• Feb. 2, 2018: Winter 2018 Office Hours Mon. 1-2pm & Wed. 1:30-2:30pm (but not Mon Feb. 5 nor Wed. Feb. 28--email me for alternative times)

Removed Jan. 2020

• July 2018: Fall 2018 Office Hours likely Tue. 3:30-4:30pm & Wed. 2-3pm
• 2018-2019 teaching schedule (tentative, esp. for 2019-2020)
  • Fall 2018:     Hist 133A: Germany 1800-1914 (TR 2-3:15 in Building 387 room 1015)
  • Winter 2019: Hist 133B: Germany 1900-1945 (TR 2-3:15pm, Arts 1349)
  • Spring 2019:  Hist 133C, Germany, 1945-present;
                           Hist 133R: Undergraduate Research Seminar in German or Genocide History
  • Fall 2019: running a conference (Int'l Herbert Marcuse Society Oct. 9-12), so Hist 9 (or 133Q) with a Frankfurt School/Critical Theory of Society topic.
  • Winter 2020: Hist 133d, The Holocaust and Other Genocides in European History
  • Spring 2020: Graduate seminar on Digital History (rudimentary 2015 homepage & syllabus)
• From older announcements:
  • A video of my April 2015 talk at the Univ. of Arizona, Tucson: "Hitler: The Sources of Myths and Facts" is available on youtube. (77 views on 6/20/15; 13,673 views on 2/1/2018; 13,854 on 7/6/18)
  • Blurb: Did Hitler have “Jewish blood” (ancestry)? Who thought so? Why? Did his family life predispose him towards violent behavior? Who explained Hitler that way, and why? When did he become an anti-semite? Was he always? What did make him that way? In this lecture Prof. Marcuse will examine several  widely circulating beliefs about Adolf Hitler. The goal is not so much to debunk the myths, but to show when, where, why, from whom,  and how the myths changed over time, and what efforts historians made to find sources that shed light on their veracity.
• Aug. 2018: I've added to my Hist 133A page information about this Fall's course (Germany 1800-1900), in particular the required textbook and books.
• Jan. 2, 2019: Winter 2019 office hours: Monday 4-5pm and Wednesdays 2-3pm.
  • My W'19 Hist 133B course (Germany, 1900-1945) meets Tue & Thu 2-3:15pm in Arts 1349. It is currently full (2 over the limit) with a waitlist of 12, so at this point only students with some kind of priority reason have a chance of getting in. For more information about past offerings of this course, see this (somewhat outdated) 2016 Hist 133B course page.
• Apr. 23, 2019: Spring 2019 office hours: Tuesdays 1-3pm
  Classes Mon. 2-5pm, Tue 11-12:15, Wed. 9-12 & 2-4pm, Thu 11-12:15.
  Page counter updated 3 weeks after it was moved to new domain, now marcuse.faculty.ucsb.edu.
• Nov. 20, 2019: Fall 2019 office hours: Tue. 2-3 & Wed. 3:30-4:30.
  Hist 9 meets W & F 2-3:15pm in Girv. 2112.
  • W'20 Hist 133Q books are listed on my Hist 133Q webpage.
  • Books for W'20 Hist 133D will be posted on my Hist 133D course page soon.
• Jan. 1, 2020: Winter 2020 Office Hours Tue 4-5pm & Wed 2-3pm.