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The program was conceived by Kreisler as a way to capture through conversation the intellectual ferment of our times. First broadcast in 1982, Conversations with History now comprises over 650 interviews. A collection of Kreisler's interviews, Political Awakenings: Conversations with History, was published by the New Press in 2011. [6]
Max Scherr, M.A. - journalist, founder and publisher of the Berkeley Barb; Hugo Schwyzer – author, speaker and former instructor of history and gender studies [39] Lincoln Steffens – one of the most famous practitioners of the muckraking journalistic style; Steven L. Thompson, B.A. – journalist, columnist at Cycle World
The Tussman Experimental College was an American educational project at the University of California, Berkeley that lasted from 1965 to 1969. Founded by philosophy professor Joseph Tussman , about 300 students were chosen through a combination of selective interviews and academic standing.
In the 1988 film Die Hard (1988), Joseph Yashinobo Takagi (James Shigeta), President of Nakatomi Trading, is said to be a scholarship student at UC Berkeley, graduating in 1955. In the film Legally Blonde (2001), Harvard law student Enid Wexler earns a Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in women's studies, "emphasis in the history of combat".
Informally, the campus is called UC Berkeley, Berkeley, or Cal. More specifically, the campus uses the terms in the following ways: [62] "UC Berkeley" is the standard brand name for communications to the general public. The university's current brand identity standards call for "UC Berkeley" to be used in the first reference in any communication.
As part of the agreement, the collection was moved from the 8,600-square-foot house on Russell Street in Berkeley to a 25,000-square-foot building on Allston Way in downtown Berkeley. [6] The Magnes Museum's board of directors had purchased the Allston Way building in 1997. [6] The museum reopened in its new facility on January 22, 2012. [6]
The history department offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctorate degrees in history and is one of the largest at the UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science. According to the U.S. News & World Report rankings in history, the department is #1 in the nation, ahead of Princeton University, Yale University, University of ...
The Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) is a research, teaching, and public events program at UC Berkeley. Its mission is to critically analyze and help shape developments in new media from cross-disciplinary and global perspectives that emphasize humanities and the public interest. Founded in 2004 by Linda Williams, Ken Goldberg, Greg ...