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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]
The department of history is one of the largest in the College of Letters and Science. The undergraduate program provides students a B.A. in History upon completion of lower- and upper-division requirements. Students are also able to join Phi Alpha Theta, the history honors society, or contribute to Clio's Scroll, the undergraduate history journal.
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
Jowitt has been a professor at UC-Berkeley since 1968. Among other honors and forms of recognition, he won the University Distinguished Teaching Award in 1983, and has been the recipient of two Stanford Hoover fellowships. From 1983 to 1986 he was dean of undergraduate studies at his alma mater, the University of California-Berkeley.
The Berkeley Forum, referred to simply as the Forum, is a prominent, non-partisan student organization at the University of California, Berkeley.Founded in 2012, the Forum hosts debates, panels, and talks with distinguished speakers on various topics; it is modeled after similar organizations at other prestigious universities, like the Oxford Union, Cambridge Union, and Yale Political Union.
Jane F. McAlevey (October 12, 1964 – July 7, 2024) was an American union organizer, author, and political commentator. [1] [2] [3] She was a Senior Policy Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, and a columnist at The Nation.
Despite UC Berkeley striking a deal with pro-Palestinian protesters this week, a group later took over an campus building. Twelve were arrested when police moved in to clear the building.
Martin Evan Jay (born May 4, 1944) is an American intellectual historian whose research interests connected history with the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, social theory, cultural criticism, and historiography. He is currently the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.