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 […]
William Deringer (MIT) “Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age, 1688-1776"
Free Books for Students! Stop by to browse an interdepartmental book collection, and go home with new reading material! Books from Chicano/a Studies, Economics, Geography, History, and Political Science departments will be available.
Join professor Benjamin Madley for helpful tips and feedback in this History Writing Center workshop.
In 1539 the Apostolic Inquisition of Mexico accused Martin Ocelotl of idolatry, blasphemy, and other crimes against the Church. Martin Ocelotl was a traditional ritual specialist from the area of Tetzcoco who actively opposed the imposition of colonialism and called for the restoration of the traditional way of life. The files of his trial register […]
Rev. James Lawson is a leading theorist and practitioner of nonviolent social action. During the 1960s he advised Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and lead civil rights campaigns in Nashville and Memphis. Since the 1970s, his teaching on nonviolence has shaped the practice of social movements in southern California an across the country. Vinay Lal […]
Courtenay Raia (Colson School of Music) “William in Wonderland: Crookes’s Scientific Spiritualism and the Physics of the Impossible”
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. […]
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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 […]
