CSULA History Department

03/04/2025

Come hear all about the Cal State LA History department's MA degree next week!! (see flier below for details)

11/29/2022

11/06/2022

Congratulations to the history department's Professor Dawn Dennis and to Department of Chicana(o) and Latina(o) Studies Professor Lani Cupchoy on the publication of their co-authored article, "Watts Teach-In: “Restorative Histories” through Activist-Led Scholarship," California History, 99 (4): 82-97.

This article explores the practice of community-based projects emerging from Los Angeles, specifically Watts. We argue for activist-led scholarship rooted in “restorative histories” to shift the power relationship back into the hands of BIPOC communities. In this essay, we join the existing rich...

10/28/2022

Congratulations to Professor Angela Vergara on the publication of her new article on Chinchilla Breeding and Domestication!!

When Mathias Chapman opened his first chinchilla breeding farm in Southern California, he also saved the fur trade industry.

10/28/2022

Immensely proud that the American Historical Association has awarded the Cal State LA History Department its 2022 Equity Award for excellence in recruiting and retaining underrepresented racial and ethnic groups into the historical disciplineII

The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the winners of its 2022 prizes.

10/11/2022

It's late notice, but if you are on campus please join us for the following event at 12:15:

10/01/2022

Please join Phi Alpha Theta on Tuesday afternoon for this event featuring the department's own Afshin Matin-Asgari:

09/30/2022

Please join us for this event on the life and times of Mikhail Gorbachev:

09/20/2022

Please join us on Zoom for "Environmental Landscapes: The Indigenous Garden at Cal State LA" on September 22 from 6-8. More details, and the names of the Cal State LA history department students and alumni on the event panel, are on the flier below:

05/12/2022

Please join us for this lecture by the history department's own amazing Stan Burstein - details below!!

05/04/2022

Join us tomorrow from 4-6 for "Resistance and Empowerment through the Work of Mervyn M. Dymally" at the Library Innovation Hub. The event is sponsored by the American Communities Program.

04/20/2022

Please join us for this in-person American Communities Program event tomorrow night at 6 pm, featuring History Professors Birte Pfleger and Sara Pugach, as well as Music Professor John Kennedy.