In accord with the mission of Santa Clara University, Santa Clara’s History Department strives to be a community of scholars in which students and faculty engage in vigorous inquiry to study and understand the past. This is the product of both interpretation of what others have written about the past and original scholarship that expands the boundaries of historical knowledge. Because history is what the present says about the past, it is continuously undergoing reinterpretation. Examination of the construction of history is therefore at the base of learning and scholarship within the department.

Through an integrated approach to teaching, learning, and scholarship, students will become informed about their own and other cultures in a global context, will develop broadly reflective and analytic skills, and will prepare themselves to be engaged citizens serving their societies.

Further, the History Department strives to further the goals of the College of Arts and Sciences and the University, especially through service to the University Core and the University Residential Learning Communities.

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Submissions from 2024

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The Communal Roots of Mexico’s Maquila Industry: Urbanization, Land, and Inequality in Ciudad Juárez, 1960–2000, Mateo J. Carrillo and Jonatan Pérez

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Betty Smith’s Bestselling Introduction to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Nancy C. Unger

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Legislating Morality in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Moral Panic and the “White Slave” Case That Changed America, Nancy C. Unger

Submissions from 2023

Under the Gold Plating: Everyday Americans in the Gilded Age, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2022

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Imperialism, Race Thinking, Gender, and Genocide, Amy E. Randall

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Introduction: Gender and Genocide Studies, 2nd Edition, Amy E. Randall

American Women in Environmental History: An Illustrated Overview, Nancy Unger

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The Supreme Court letting states mandate morals will end badly, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2021

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Migrant Flows: Hydraulic Infrastructure, Agricultural Industrialization, and Environmental Change in Western Mexico, 1940–64, Mateo J. Carrillo

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For the Father of a Newborn: Soviet Obstetrics and the Mobilization of Men as Medical Allies, Amy E. Randall

Changing The World, Empowering Themselves: Women’s Clubs in Environmental History, Nancy Unger

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Russel Nye and the Unending Struggle to Keep Government Representative, Nancy Unger

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The LGBTQ+ community: an underappreciated resource in environmental awareness and protection, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2020

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‘How should slaves disappear?’: defending slavery in France, 1834–1848, Naomi J. Andrews

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Ejidos, Urbanization, and the Production of Inequality in Formerly Agricultural Lands, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1975–2020, Leonardo Barleta, Mateo J. Carrillo, Zephyr Frank, and Erik Steiner

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“Yankee, Why Does a Big Man like You Fear My Baby?”: The Politics of the Anti-Japanese Movement, 1908-1924, Sonia Gomez

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Soviet and Russian Masculinities: Rethinking Soviet Fatherhood after Stalin and Renewing Virility in the Russian Nation under Putin, Amy E. Randall

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The template for using white privilege to fight racism, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2019

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The Romantic Socialist Origins of Humanitarianism, Naomi J. Andrews

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Barren Lands and Barren Bodies In Navajo Nation: Indian Women WARN about Uranium, Genetics, and Sterilization, Marie Bolton and Nancy C. Unger

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The Politics of Afro-Asian Intimacies in Jim Crow Tokyo, Sonia Gomez

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Gender and Sexuality, Amy E. Randall

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Legacies of Belle La Follette’s Big Tent Campaigns for Women’s Suffrage, Nancy Unger

Personal, Political, and Professional: The Impact of Carolyn Merchant’s Life and Leadership, Nancy Unger

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Belle La Follette’s Fight for Women’s Suffrage: Losing the Battle for Wisconsin, Winning the War for the Nation, Nancy C. Unger

Submissions from 2018

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Selective Empathy: Workers, Colonial Subjects, and the Affective Politics of French Romantic Socialism, Naomi J. Andrews

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Isolation Within Isolation: The Public and Personal Politics of Hospital Infection, Matthew L. Newsom Kerr

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Victorian Plague Town: Quarantines, Hospitals, and the Political Birth of Isolation, Matthew L. Newsom Kerr

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The La Follette Dynasty, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2017

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Gender and the Emergence of the Soviet 'Citizen-Consumer' in Comparative Perspective, Amy E. Randall

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Adda F. Howie: "America’s Outstanding Woman Farmer", Nancy Unger

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Tiny homes are all the rage. So why do so few communities welcome them?, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2016

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For overcoming homophobia, California’s FAIR Education Act is a model, Nancy Unger

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Role of Gay Bars in American History, Nancy Unger

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That the Worst Shooting in US History Took Place in a Gay Bar Is Unsurprising, Nancy Unger

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The GOP's Resilience Is Time-Tested, Nancy Unger

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The Unexpected Belle La Follette, Nancy Unger

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The Unexpected Belle La Follette: Progressive Model for 2016, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2015

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Dode Akabi:A Reexamination of the Oral and Textual Narrative of a “Wicked” Female King, Harry N. K. Odamtten

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Introduction: Gendering Genocide Studies, 1st Edition, Amy E. Randall

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Even Judging Woodrow Wilson by the Standards of His Own Time, He Was Deplorably Racist, Nancy Unger

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Suffragist Belle La Follette earned a spot on the $10 bill, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2014

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Sites of Complaint and Complaining: Fever and Smallpox Hospitals in Late-Victorian London, Matthew L. Newsom Kerr

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Gays and Lesbians in Early 20th Century America, Nancy Unger

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Women and Gender: Useful Categories of Analysis in Environmental History, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2013

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Breaking the Ties: French Romantic Socialism and the Critique of Liberal Slave Emancipation, Naomi J. Andrews

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Junípero Serra: From Mallorcan Preacher and Teacher to California Missionary, Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz

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"An Alteration in the human countenance": Inoculation, Vaccination, and the Face of Smallpox in the Age of Jenner, Matthew L. Newsom Kerr

Critical departures in the Practice of Pan-Africanism, Harry N. K. Odamtten

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Morality, the Sacred and God in Ghanaian Hip- Hop, Harry N. K. Odamtten

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Beyond Nature’s Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History, Nancy Unger

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Santa Clara University: Father Doesn’t Know Best in Health Care Debate, Nancy Unger

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When Saving Earth was Women’s Work, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2012

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They Bleed But They Don’t Die: Towards a Theoretical Canon On Ga-Adangbe Gender Studies, Harry N. K. Odamtten

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Soviet Masculinities: Guest Editor's Introduction, Amy E. Randall

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Fifty Years After “Silent Spring,” Let’s Not Roll Back Environmental Protections; Social Justice, Nancy Unger

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Hetch Hetchy Redux: An Effort to Turn Back the Environmental Clock, Nancy Unger

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Introduction: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender as Useful Categories in Environmental History, Nancy Unger

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Letting Go of "Mother Nature", Nancy Unger

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Wisconsin's League Against Nuclear Dangers: The Power of Informed Citizenship, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2011

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D'Eichthal and Urbain's Lettres sur la race noire et la race blanche: race, gender, and reconciliation after Slave Emancipation, Naomi Andrews

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"The Universal Alliance of All Peoples": Romantic Socialists, the Human Family, and the Defense of Empire during the July Monarchy, 1830-1848, Naomi J. Andrews

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From “Mothers of Humanity” to “Assisting the Emperor”: Gendered Belonging in the Wartime Rhetoric of Japanese Feminist Ichikawa Fusae, Barbara Molony

Hip-Hop Speaks, Hip-Life Answers: Global African Music, Harry N. K. Odamtten

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"Abortion Will Deprive You of Happiness!"Soviet Reproductive Politics in the Post-Stalin Era, Amy E. Randall

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The 'Right' to Control Her Own Body?: Soviet Women, Abortion and the State, Amy E. Randall

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La Follette’s Autobiography: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Glorious, Nancy Unger

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Wisconsin: A History of Leading the Nation for Better or Worse, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2010

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Junípero Serra and the Santa Bárbara Channel, Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz

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What They Brought: the Alta California Franciscans Before 1769, Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz

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Housing reconstruction after the catastrophe: the failed promise of San Francisco’s 1906 “earthquake cottages”, Marie Bolton and Nancy Unger

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“Perambulating fever nests of our London streets”: Cabs, Omnibuses, Ambulances, and Other “Pest-Vehicles” in the Victorian Metropolis, Matthew L. Newsom Kerr

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Repealing the Ban on Abortion, Amy E. Randall

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The Representation of Junípero Serra in California History, Robert M. Senkewicz

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From Jook Joints to Sisterspace: The Role of Nature in Lesbian Alternative Environments in the United States, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2009

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The Significance of Things Fall Apart to African Historiography, Harry N. K. Odamtten

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Women for a Peaceful Christmas: Wisconsin Homemakers Seek to Remake American Culture, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2008

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Uncertainty on the Mission Frontier: Missionary Recruitment and Institutional Stability in Alta California in the 1790s, Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz

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Hiratsuka Haruko (Raichō), Barbara Molony

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Modernity, Gender, and the Empire, Barbara Molony

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Superdelegates: An Obstacle on the Road to Democratic Elections, Nancy Unger

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The Role of Gender in Environmental Justice, Nancy Unger

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Why McCain and His Running Mate Demand Special Scrutiny, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2007

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Revolt at Mission San Gabriel, October 25, 1785: Judicial Proceedings and Related Documents, Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz

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Gender, Citizenship, and Dress in Modernizing Japan, Barbara Molony

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It’s Gay Rights, Not Gay Genes, That Matter, Nancy Unger

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Passive Citizenship is Not Enough, Nancy Unger

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Pioneering women in Congress aren't guaranteed success, Nancy Unger

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Teaching “Straight” Gay and Lesbian History, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2006

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Introduction to Socialism's Muse, Naomi J. Andrews

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After Past Scandals, Real Reforms, Nancy Unger

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Gendered Approaches to Environmental Justice: An Historical Sampling, Nancy Unger

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The ‘We Say What We Think’ Club: Rural Wisconsin Women and the Development of Environmental Ethics, Nancy Unger

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When Principle May be the Best Policy, Nancy Unger

Submissions from 2005

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Horseless Horses: Car Dealing and the Survival of Retail Bargaining, Steven M. Gelber

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Introduction to Gendering Modern Japanese History, Barbara Molony

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The Quest for Women's Rights in Turn-of-the-Century Japan, Barbara Molony

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Why Should a Feminist Care about What Goes on Behind the Chrysanthemum Curtain? The Imperial Succession Issue as a Metaphor for Women’s Right, Barbara Molony

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Women’s Rights and the Japanese State, 1880 to 1925, Barbara Molony

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How to Rise from the Political Deathbed, Nancy Unger