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July 22, 2022Associate Professor of History Felicia Angeja Viator wrote an essay about the 4DX theater experience and the hope that it wi…
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July 15, 2022There's a push to end bans on lowrider cruising across California. The lowrider community says these bans criminalize harmle…
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April 17, 2022Marc Stein is the Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Professor of History at San Francisco State University, is the author of City of…
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April 04, 2022On March 15, Philadelphia Gay News published a Q&A with Marc Stein, SF State’s Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Professor of His…
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March 14, 2022“It was her bread and butter to say what people wanted to hear around blindness issues,” Catherine Kudlick, a professor of h…
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February 24, 2022KPFA Special – The Historical Meaning of The Current Russian Invasion of Ukraine Listen to the episode.
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December 06, 2021SF State Professor Trevor Getz will again bring an overlooked piece of history to light through a nonfiction comic book. Cre…
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June 01, 2021Due to the demolition of the Science Building, the History Department has relocated to Humanities 209.
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May 11, 2021Essay co-written by Dawn Mabalon, late associate professor of History, is among 11 notable moments in Asian American history…
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November 27, 2020Professor of History Marc Stein discussed the need for better political representation for the LGBTQ community in a widely r…
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September 21, 2020Conference Agenda and Link to Department Consitution Day Webpage below. For full videos, resources and roundtables please…
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September 01, 2020"EVERY ELECTION IS DETERMINED BY THE PEOPLE WHO SHOW UP." - Larry Sabato “Deeds not Words” was a suffragette motto. Exercis…
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May 31, 2020George Floyd’s death was murder. He did not have to die. His brutal and unnecessary murder was just one of many inflicted up…
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May 21, 2020We are sad not to be celebrating with you in person, but are tremendously proud of your accomplishments and honored to numbe… “In the face of all that is not new, the one thing that is new – is you. We have never yet seen how you and your generation…
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April 02, 2020Please enjoy this article for the work of San Francisco State University History Department's faculty member Professor Viato…
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February 27, 2020How is it that gangsta rap ― so dystopian that it struck aspiring Brooklyn rapper and future superstar Jay-Z as “over the to…
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January 28, 2020Release Date: February 25th, 2020 View the article on LA Weekly.
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December 09, 2019"Sexuality in 17th century Japan was not what we expected." - Kayla Ratliff Inspired, in part, by a desire to learn about h…
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July 17, 2019Why it is Important to Know the Story Filipino American Larry Itliong, is a Smithsonian article that includes mentions of th…
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July 11, 2019Julie van den Hout a History Master's Student here at SF State won the annual World History Association prize for the best s…
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July 10, 2019Coit Tower, a Novel of San Francisco is now available. San Francisco, 1942. Four months after Pearl Harbor. No one knows if…
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April 02, 2019March 1 1923-March 20 2019 Leonard Ludovic Wolf was born to Joseph and Rose Wolf in Vulcan, Rumania. His father emigrated to…
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October 19, 2018James V. Compton, professor emeritus of history, passed away on October 19. His dad was director of the Federal Emergency R…
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October 08, 2018On September 8th, Professor William Issel presented the Kevin Starr Memorial lecture, which is now featured on C-SPAN for vi…
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August 11, 2018It is with great sadness that the family of Dawn Bohulano Mabalon announces her sudden death on August 10, 2018 in Kauai, Ha… Dawn Bohulano Mabalon August 17, 1972 - August 10, 2018 For her focus on Filipina/o Americans, Dr. Dawn Bohulano Mabalon is well-known as the premiere historian of her generation.… It is my hope that the love, respect, and commitment we feel for our historic community runs deeper than anything that can d… Her poetry, articles and curriculum in Filipina/o American history and studies are published widely in books, anthologies, a…
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March 21, 2017Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art by San Francisco State University's Emeritus Robert W. Cherny is now available. A l…
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December 05, 2016Congratulations to Dr. Karen Morrison whose book Cuba's Racial Crucible has just been awarded the Marysa Navarro Best Book P…
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May 11, 2016In Aid Under Fire, Jessica Elkind examines US nation-building efforts in the fledgling South Vietnamese state during the dec…
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March 20, 2016We are pleased to announce that Dr. Cathy Kudlick has sucessfully sheparded Dr. Paul K. Longmore's posthumous work, Telethon…