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.
Submissions from 2004
The Case for Cautious Optimism: California Environmental Propositions in the Late Twentieth Century, Marie Bolton and Nancy Unger
Editor’s Overview: Technology, Governance, and Public Policy, Barbara Molony
Legitimizing Soviet Trade: Gender and the Feminization of the Retail Workforce in the Soviet 1930s, Amy E. Randall
How did Belle La Follette Resist Racial Segregation in Washington D.C., 1913-1914?, Nancy Unger
Submissions from 2003
The Feminist and the Socialist: Adele and Alphonse Esquiros, Naomi J. Andrews
Utopian Androgyny: Romantic Socialists Confront Individualism in July Monarchy France, Naomi J. Andrews
The Victims: Did the Nazi T–4 Euthanasia Program Discriminate among Victims in the Targeted Groups?, Nancy Unger
Submissions from 2002
“La Mère Humanité”: Femininity in the Romantic Socialism of Pierre Leroux and the Abbé A.–L. Constant, Naomi J. Andrews
Historical Perspectives on Technology and Society, Barbara Molony
"I Went to Learn," Meanings of the European Tour of Senator Robert M. La Follette, 1923, Nancy Unger
Television Biography: History Lite, Nancy Unger
Submissions from 2001
Technology & IdentityIs rapidly accelerating technologyeroding our sense of who we are?, Barbara Molony
Submissions from 2000
Women's Rights, Feminism, and Suffragism in Japan, 1870-1925, Barbara Molony
Revolutionary Bolshevik Work’--Stakhanovism in Retail Trade, Amy E. Randall
Lessons for the Nader Camp: Fighting Bob La Follette in 1924, Nancy Unger
Submissions from 1999
The State and Women in Modern Japan: Feminist Discourses in the Meiji and Taisho Eras, Barbara Molony
The Two Worlds of Belle La Follette, Nancy Unger
Submissions from 1997
Do-It-Yourself: Constructing, Repairing and Maintaining Domestic Masculinity, Steven M. Gelber
Submissions from 1996
The End of the 1824 Chumash Revolt in Alta California: Father Vicente Sarría’s Account, Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
The Recovery of the First History of Alta California: Antonio María Osio’s La historia de Alta California, Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
Submissions from 1995
Japan's 1986 Equal Employment Opportunity Law and the Changing Discourse on Gender, Barbara Molony
The Burden of a Great Name: Robert M. La Follette, Jr., Nancy Unger
Submissions from 1993
The ‘Political Suicide’ of Robert M. La Follette: Public Disaster, Private Catharsis, Nancy Unger
Submissions from 1992
Free Market Metaphor: The Historical Dynamics of Stamp Collecting, Steven M. Gelber
Submissions from 1991
A Job You Can't Lose: Work and Hobbies in the Great Depression, Steven M. Gelber
Activism among Women in the Taisho Cotton Textile Industry, Barbara Molony
Submissions from 1990
Sequoia Seminar: The Sources of Religious Sectarianism, Steven M. Gelber
Submissions from 1989
Noguchi Jun and Nitchitsu: Colonial Investment Strategy of a High Technology Enterprise, Barbara Molony
Submissions from 1985
The Eye of the Beholder: Images of California by Dorothea Lange & Russell Lee, Steven M. Gelber
Submissions from 1984
Lang and Lee: Two Views of the Great Depression, Steven M. Gelber
"Their Hands Are All Out Playing:" Business and Amateur Baseball, 1845-1917, Steven M. Gelber
Submissions from 1983
Working at Playing: The Culture of the Workplace and the Rise of Baseball, Steven M. Gelber
Submissions from 1979
Working to Prosperity: California’s New Deal Murals, Steven M. Gelber
American and Catholic: The premature synthesis of the San Francisco Irish, Robert M. Senkewicz
Religion and Non-Partisan Politics in Gold Rush San Francisco, Robert M. Senkewicz
The Inflation of an Overdone Business: Economic Origins of San Francisco Vigilantes, Robert M. Senkewicz
Submissions from 1976
Art for the Millions: A Pictorial History of the WPA Art Project in S.F., Warren Hinckle, Steven M. Gelber, and Richard O'Hanlon
