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" Featuring John Mack Faragher Howard R. Lamar Prof of History & American Studies and Director Howard R. Lamar Center, Yale University With responses on the […]
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 life, however, as William Ellis, an enslaved African American in south Texas. Columbia University historian Karl Jacoby and members of Ellis’s family from Mexico and the U.S. […]
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 "What Everyone Wants to Know" and "A Short History" series as well as academic history, will discuss strategies and tips for publishing with an academic […]
The UCLA Department of History Invites you to attend the 12th anniversary celebration of the Johannes Van Tilburg Lecture in Dutch Studies Mining an Uncharted Continent: Europe in Twentieth-Century Dutch Newspapers presented by Joris van Eijnatten Professor and Chair in Cultural History Department of History and Art History Utrecht University --- Reception to follow --- […]
RSVP required for this two-day symposium. Please download the flyer for the list of speakers and schedule for each day. This event is sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the UCLA Department of History.