Dr. Traci Parker, an associate professor of history at UC Davis, joins Ashley Williams for a discussion about a controversial ad released by Converse.

This interview is with Ted Margadant, Professor Emeritus of History.  Ted was appointed in 1969 and retired in 2010.  His research focused on 18th and 19th century French History, parti...

Historian Gregory Downs explains the complicated history of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, including subsequent laws that undermined equal protections it guaranteed, as well as the court case affirming the definition of birthright citizenship we take for granted today.

11 likes, 1 comments - manettishrem on April 3, 2026: "Join the Manetti Shrem Museum on Tuesday, April 14, for an evening with Lisa G. Materson and Corrie Decker at Covered, a campus-wide collaboratio...

Kathleen DuVal, history Ph.D. alumna and 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner, returned to UC Davis to give a talk to a packed audience at the Walter A. Buehler Alumni Center on February 25 to share her research on Tecumseh, a 19th century Native American leader.

As a professor of history and UC Davis associate dean for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor teaches and coaches them through both common challenges, like how to conn...

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For this edition of Books of the Month, as protests and political divides continue to disrupt lives across the U.S., we’ve selected books that grapple with these issues, telling stories of both surviv...

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At Bloomington’s MLK celebration Jan. 19, UC Davis historian Traci Parker urged the audience to see Coretta Scott King as a central architect of the movement, not simply MLK’s widow. The program also ...

In 1949, President Harry Truman declared February 1 as National Freedom Day, commemorating the day in 1865 that Abraham Lincoln signed a resolution proposing a Constitutional amendment prohibiting sla...

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Federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis is part of a larger history of government violence against citizens and non-citizens alike. However, today’s technology, rhetoric and legal tensions are ...

Two recent vetoes by the association’s governing council raise the question of who defines what counts as “history.”

1,437 likes, 12 comments - history.ucdavis on February 1, 2026: "Join us for a powerful evening as Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and journalist Anne Applebaum delivers the 2026 Eugene Lunn Memorial...

Copy Link Share Share Comment Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On January 1, Zohran Mamdani wi...

Two days after the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, we...

The violence that erupted in Gaza in 2023 changed the political climate of teaching the Middle East in schools across the U.S. The UC Davis California History-Social Science Project has released new materials that teachers everywhere can use to confiden...

Centro de Investigaciones Históricas - Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan. 3,781 likes · 535 talking about this · 20 were here. Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de la Facultad de Humanidades...

Historian Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor’s recent book details how auctions created the foundations for our modern economic system as it made and unmade people and communities by collectively setting a price...

Abstract This article focuses on the extensive, low-lying mangrove forests in the lower Gangetic Delta, commonly called the Sundarbans, in the early decades of the nineteenth century. The English East...