Spring 2015 Registration begins 02/04/2015. Come learn in detail about all the exciting and new courses offered by the HISTORY department in Spring quarter. This includes not only courses which fulfill […]
This is an opportunity for students to engage in conversations, learn about career paths, develop professionally, and network with alumni and other students. Today, as much as ever, liberal arts […]
Since antiquity, scholars have almost universally -- and correctly ? interpreted the menorah bearers of the Arch of Titus spoils panel as triumphal Romans celebrating the defeat of the Jews […]
Eric Lichtblau unveils the secret history of how America became home to thousands of Nazi war criminals after World War II, many of whom were scientists and spies brought here […]
Sponsored by the History Department's Pre-Modern Cultures and Communities research cluster. rev. hm 1/11/15
This is the Second Annual JoBeth Van Gelderen Graduate Student Lecture. To most Americans, the word “slavery” conjures up images of plantations in the Old South. But in the Texas […]
As we mark the centenary of the First World War, this epochal event is usually remembered as a bloody conflict between rival alliances of nations. But from 1914 to 1918 […]
Anne Knowles and Alberto Giordano will present Geographies of the Holocaust. This book is the result of a multi-year collective project that has explored the geographies of the Holocaust at […]
From the Bronze Age to the era of petroleum, the Middle East has experienced asuccession of energy profi les that helps to explain its political and cultural effl orescences and […]
Sunday, 22 June 1941, was arguably the most significant day of the 20th century. For on that day Adolf Hitler’s armies stormed into the Soviet Union, launching a surprise attack […]