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Laura Kalman

Current Courses

Fall 2013 (tentative)

  • History 102LK
    Special Topics - History of the united states since watergate

Winter 2014 (tentative)


Department Fields

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Current Graduate Students

Recent United States History


Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, l982

Office: HSSB 4258
Hours:
Phone: (805) 893-3691   Fax: (805) 893-8795

Research and Teaching Interests

  • Twentieth Century U.S.
  • Legal History

Current Projects

  • The Long Shadow of the Warren Court: LBJ, Nixon and the Making of the Modern Supreme Court
    (under contract with Oxford University Press)

Selected Publications

  • Right Star Rising: A New Politics, 1974-1980 (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010)
  • Yale Law School and the Sixties: Revolt and Reverberations (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005)
  • The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996)
  • Abe Fortas: A Biography (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990)
  • Legal Realism at Yale, 1927-1960 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986)

Undergraduate and Graduate Courses

  • History 17C: The American People (World War I to the Present)
  • History 166B: United States in the Twentieth Century (1930-1959)
  • History 166C: United States in the Twentieth Century (The Sixties)
  • History 166LB: United States Legal History in the Twentieth Century
  • History 166P: Proseminar in Twentieth-Century United States History
  • History 201AM: Advanced Historical Literature
  • History 266A-B: Research Seminar in Recent U.S. History
  • History 102 LK Special Topics in American History
    This course usually covers the United States since Watergate