Jed Esty is the author of Unseasonable Youth: Modernism,Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development (Oxford 2012) and A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England (Princeton 2004), and is […]
It was reportedly H.L. Mencken who defined a Puritan as a person who was “haunted by the fear that someone, somewhere might be happy.” But if the 17th century Puritan […]
IHC Public Events Series for 2014-15: The Anthropocene: Views from the Humanities The Anthropocene, a newly-coined geologic term, designates the age during which human activity has been the dominant influence […]
This panel in the McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) will be moderated by History Professor Alice O'Connor.It is open to all -- families welcome! Many aspects of our modern world […]
Dr. Bassam Haddad will be addressing the causes behind the Syrian uprisings and the various factors that led to the twists and turns that still engulf Syria, and, of late, […]
This is the annual Tibesar Lecture of the Academy of American Franciscan History. Prof. Ellen McCracken will discuss Franciscan Fray Angelico Chavez (1910-1996), one of New Mexico's foremost 20th century […]
The Pre-Modern Cluster in the Department of History announces its first event, a brown bag lunch presentation. All interested faculty and grad students are welcome to attend. hm 10/22/14
Wednesday October 29th 3:30-4:30pm in HSSB 4020 Come learn about courses and internships at the UC Centers in Washington D.C. and Sacramento. Come learn about the new changes and great […]
Kati Marton, award-winning former NPR and ABC News correspondent andbestselling author, discusses her critically-acclaimed book, The Great Escape: Nine Jews who Fled Hitler and Changed the World. As the New […]
In 1910, the Vote (the newspaper of the Women’s Freedom League) launched a photography competition inviting their suffragette readers to send in photographs of themselves engaged in domestic labour. The […]