Dr. Melissa N. Morris is a historian of early America and the Atlantic World whose research is centered on the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. She is particularly interested in the cross-cultural interactions that defined colonial encounters, the role of plants in driving European expansion, the dissemination of geographic and agricultural knowledge, and colonial […]
Incoming and returning students are invited to the History Department’s Open House! Make the most out of your UCLA experience and learn about: · Academic Counseling · Faculty-Student Engagement · HistoryCorps Internships · Public History Initiative · Luskin Center for History and Policy · Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society · History Undergraduate Advisory Board (HUAB) · and much more! RSVP is encouraged, […]
The Autry Museum of the American West and the UCLA Department of History (with support from the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History; Thomas E. Lifka Chair of History; Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World; and Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in History) is hosting an event marking the 50th Anniversary of […]
