Fernando Peréz-Montesinos received his M.A. in 2009 and his Ph.D. in 2015 at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Fernando writes, “My heart… remained with the history of indigenous people in modern Latin America. I […]
Hinduism’s adherents, particularly in the United States, have displayed in recent years a marked tendency to turn towards various forms of digital media, and in particular the internet, to forge […]
Alon Confino is a professor of history at the University of Virginia and at Ben-Gurion University. At the heart of his work are the imagination, sensibilities, and emotions that make […]
Seventy years after the end of the war, the liberation of the camps is still relatively understudied by historians. In this lecture, Dan Stone will give an overview of the […]
John Laslett is an Emeritus Research Professor in the History Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on United States History: American labor and social movements; […]
Maureen C. Miller, Professor of History, University of California Berkeley - “Feuding Popes and Emperors: Characterizing the Investiture Conflict.” This lecture will argue for an updating of the conceptualization of the ‘crisis of church and […]
Edward D. Melillo is associate professor of history and environmental studies at Amherst College. He teaches courses on global environmental history, the history of the Pacific World, and commodities in world historical perspective. He […]
John T. Sidel, London School of Economics and Political Science. This lecture shows how Communism and Islam played a crucial, constitutive role in the making of the Indonesian "Revolusi," suggesting the essentially […]
Event Video Stephen Aron Professor and Robert N. Burr Department Chair UCLA Department of History Invites you to attend the annual Alden-Berg Lecture "Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles" […]
To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican banker and broker, with an apartment on Central Park West and an office on Wall Street. He began […]
Nancy Toff, Vice President and Executive Editor (History) of Oxford University Press, will talk with graduate students and faculty about academic and general history publishing. Toff, who oversees the popular […]
