Summer Session A runs from June 23 to August 1.Summer Session B runs from August 4 to September 12. For History courses taught during Sessions A and B, see our […]

All new History Department Teaching Assistants must attend both morning and afternoon sessions of the Initial Training Meeting. All returning History TAs must attend the afternoon session. For more information […]

Fall instruction begins on Thursday, September 25, 2008.Note that some History syllabi are available for downloading from the History website Courses page prior to the start of the quarter. Also, […]

Lichtenstein is the author of Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (1995). His current research examines the interplay of the […]

Fletcher, a longtime labor and international activist, is executive editor of Black Commentator and founder of the Center for Labor Renewal. Gapasin is a Central Labor Council President and former […]

Jason Kelly is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University of Indiana. Since its existence first became public knowledge in the 1760s, politicians, critics, and historians alike have represented […]

This lecture examines evidence from an ancient Roman infant cemetery recently discovered at Lugnano in Teverina (Umbria). The cemetery contained forty-eight bodies. DNA testing techniques recently developed by Robert Sallares […]

Tobias Higbie, Associate Professor of History at UCLA, is the author of Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930 (2003), which won the Philip Taft Labor […]

Diane Ackerman, author of the bestselling A Natural History of the Senses and An Alchemy of Mind, will discuss and sign copies of her latest book, The Zookeeper's Wife: A […]

This talk examines the literary and archaeological/topographical evidence for Agesilaos' campaign against Sardis in 395 B.C. By reading the conflicting accounts of Xenophon, the Oxyrhynchus Historian, and Diodorus Siculus in […]