Stalingrad
Students from Dr. McGuire's "Warfare, Terrorism, and Genocide" class set up a tent outside the student union and showed passersby a multimedia experience about the Battle of Stalingrad.
Click below to watch the video.
Featured course: PROJECT UKRAINE
Each year the department’s Warfare, Genocide, Terrorism: Violence and Globalization since 1914 undertakes a digital or public history project related to one of the case studies from the course. The current war in Ukraine is a shocking reminder of the continued relevance of 20th century history and the ability of political violence to shift the world order quickly and permanently.
Our Spring 2023 students are collaborating to craft a single timeline of key events as they happen, distilling what can feel like a barrage of news coverage into carefully curated snapshots of history in the making. Each student chose a point of view from which to follow the news: Ukrainian civilians, refugees, Russians back home trying to understand what’s going on, Ukrainian soldiers, Russian President Vladimir Putin, the United States, or NATO. At the same time, students receive short lectures clarifying key aspects of Ukraine’s history and relationship to its neighbors.
Stay tuned for more!
Cal State East Bay history major McKenzie (Mac) Reed interned at the Punk Rock Archive at the San Francisco Public Library. During her internship she assisted with the archiving of punk rock flyers donated to the library, wrote blog posts and helped out with the Frightwig collection
Mac also shares a few words about her experience in this video:
Student Projects
Latin American Monsters
Students in Dr. Alexander's Public History class collaborated with digital illustration students from Josh Funk's class at Chico State to explore the history of folklore and monsters in Latin America. The history students wrote essays and the art students interpreted the essays and created illustrations about each monster.
Podcasts
A brief history of the 2000s New York garage/indie rock revival - by McKenzie Reed:
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An introduction to the Gold Rush with a look at the impact mercury had on the gold mining industry and the lasting effects on California - by Alex Moller:
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An exploration of composer Dmitri Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony premiered by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra in 1937 - by Yukai Chen