News:
Assistant Professor Priya Satia won the American Historical Association – Pacific Coast Branch’s award for the best first book in any field of history(February, 2009).
Assistant Professor Priya Satia’s essay “The Shadow of History Passes Over Pakistan”
Financial Times (May 20, 2009)
Assistant Professor Thomas Mullaney’s “The Chinese Typewriter” on The China Beat, May 14, 2009
Stanford Magazine interviewed Assistant Professor Priya Satia on “Lessons of War” in their May/June 2009 issue.
Time Magazine listed History Senior Lecturer Martin Lewis' YouTube Edu video as one of their favorites in the April 27, 2009 issue.
History: Geography of U. S. Elections
History Professor Steven Zipperstein’s article
“Immersed in, and Suspicious of, Books”
The Chronicle of Higher Education (May '09)
History Honors student, Stephanie Beck had an op-ed based on her Honors thesis on an earlier epidemic of the swine flu in the San Francisco Chronicle.
“When politics, and swine flu, infect health”
History Professor Steven Zipperstein on 'Rosenfeld's Lives'
Stanford Report interview (4/29/09)
Assistant Professor Priya Satia on "Britain's 'Covert Empire' in Iraq during the Mandate Era," interview on NPR's Worldview (WBEZ-Chicago), March 27, 2009.
History Professor James Campbell on 'Historical Consciousness'
Stanford Report interview (2/25/09)
Stanford Report video (2/25/09)
History major alumna Sarah B. Kleinman will head to Oxford University next fall as one of 32 Americans awarded a 2009 Rhodes Scholarship....
Chair: Paula Findlen
Upcoming Events:
History Honors Day & Capstone Presentations
Wednesday and Thursday, May 27-28 Schedule of presentations
History Department's Diploma Ceremony
Sunday, June 14, Citrus Courtyard, behind Lane History Corner
New publications:
ISLAM AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN FRENCH WEST AFRICA
by Sean Hanretta
DIVERSE NATIONS: EXPLORATIONS IN THE HISTORY OF RACIAL & ETHNIC PLURALISM
by George M. Fredrickson
ITALY'S EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: GENDER AND CULTURE IN THE AGE OF THE GRAND TOUR
Edited by Paula Findlen, Wendy Wassyng Roworth, and Catherine M. Sama
ROSENFELD'S LIVES: FAME, OBLIVION AND THE FURIES OF WRITING, Steven J. Zipperstein
GUARDIANS OF ISLAM, Kathryn A. Miller
ASIAN AMERICAN ART: A HISTORY , 1850-1970, Edited by Gordon H. Chang, Mark Johnson, and Paul Karlstrom
SPIES IN ARABIA, Priya Satia
WHERE HAVE ALL THE SOLDIERS GONE?, James J. Sheehan
THE FIRST DAY OF THE BLITZ, Peter Stansky
THE ESSENTIAL FEMINIST READER, edited by Estelle B. Freedman
SEASCAPES: MARITIME HISTORIES, LITTORAL CULTURES, AND TRANSOCEANIC EXCHANGES, edited by Jerry H. Bentley, Renate Bridenthal and Karen Wigen
THE MIRROR OF ANTIQUITY: AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION, Caroline Winterer
THE EARLY CHINESE EMPIRES: QIN AND HAN (HISTORY OF IMPERIAL CHINA), Mark Edward Lewis
GENESIS REDUX: ESSAYS IN THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, edited by Jessica Riskin