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Middle East in Historical Context Inquiry Sets Now Available for Classroom Use

History UC Davis @history-ucdavis.bsky.social · 18d

Students trace the intersections of Zionist colonization in Palestine and British imperial rule, while also examining Palestinian claims to political continuity, cultural resilience, and resistance to displacement after 1948.

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History UC Davis @history-ucdavis.bsky.social · 18d

"Modern Palestinian History" contextualizes the 1948 Nakba–the displacement of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes with Israel’s establishment–with sources ranging from Ottoman maps to British commission reports and Palestinian writings and poetry.

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History UC Davis @history-ucdavis.bsky.social · 18d

Read more and check out the sets at CHSSP: chssp.ucdavis.edu/blog/middle-...

As teachers begin the 2025-26 school year, the California History-Social Science Project is proud to announce that there are four new inquiry sets that teachers may now use to teach Middle Eastern and...

Middle East in Historical Context Inquiry Sets Now Available for Classroom Use

History UC Davis @history-ucdavis.bsky.social · 18d

This set introduces students to the concept of Orientalism and illustrates how Arab Americans contested these stereotypes. Using oral histories, photography, and poetry, the set introduces Arab American immigration history while teaching media literacy related to Arab communities.

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History UC Davis @history-ucdavis.bsky.social · 18d

"The Arab American Immigrant Experience" narrates the history of Arab immigration to the United States and how these immigrants navigated racial stereotyping. Focused attention is paid to how Arab Americans were represented in popular culture.

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History UC Davis @history-ucdavis.bsky.social · 18d

Read more and check out the sets at CHSSP: chssp.ucdavis.edu/blog/middle-...

As teachers begin the 2025-26 school year, the California History-Social Science Project is proud to announce that there are four new inquiry sets that teachers may now use to teach Middle Eastern and...

Middle East in Historical Context Inquiry Sets Now Available for Classroom Use

History UC Davis @history-ucdavis.bsky.social · 18d

The set situates the emergence and early debates over Zionism among Jewish communities, highlighting perspectives often excluded by European-centered narratives on this topic. The set provides historical grounding for classroom discussions of nationalism, empire, and identity.

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History UC Davis @history-ucdavis.bsky.social · 18d

"Middle Eastern Jewish Life and Early Zionism, 1880-1920" presents a variety of voices from Arabic-speaking and Sephardic Jewish communities alongside European Jewish perspectives.

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History UC Davis @history-ucdavis.bsky.social · 18d

Read more and check out the sets at CHSSP: chssp.ucdavis.edu/blog/middle-...

As teachers begin the 2025-26 school year, the California History-Social Science Project is proud to announce that there are four new inquiry sets that teachers may now use to teach Middle Eastern and...

Middle East in Historical Context Inquiry Sets Now Available for Classroom Use

History UC Davis @history-ucdavis.bsky.social · 18d

Through structured interpretation of court poetry, visual arts, and chronicles, students gain an understanding of the commonalities premodern elites shared, contextualizing later studies of political absolutism and revolutionary change.

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History UC Davis @history-ucdavis.bsky.social · 18d

"Premodern Elite Culture in Andalusia" introduces students to the multicultural world of medieval Iberia, where Muslim, Jewish, and Christian elites shared cultural practices across political and religious divides.

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History UC Davis @history-ucdavis.bsky.social · 18d

Based on a yearlong project funded by the UC Office of the President, the sets introduce inquiry-based instruction in rarely taught sources to California high schools.
Read more and check out the sets at CHSSP: chssp.ucdavis.edu/blog/middle-...

As teachers begin the 2025-26 school year, the California History-Social Science Project is proud to announce that there are four new inquiry sets that teachers may now use to teach Middle Eastern and...

UC Davis Students Uncover History of a Little-Known Black Community in Woodland

History UC Davis @history-ucdavis.bsky.social · 18d

The lesson plans are available for classroom use this Fall. History graduate students Ali Daniş Neyzi, Charles Sills, and Nina Gonzelez curated and produced the sets with CHSSP Deputy Director Beth Slutsky and History faculty PIs Stacy D. Fahrenthold, Baki Tezcan, and Ali Anooshahr.

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History UC Davis @history-ucdavis.bsky.social · 18d

A yearlong partnership between the Department of History and the California History-Social Science Project (CHSSP) has resulted in the publication of four new inquiry sets on Middle Eastern and Arab American history!

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History UC Davis @history-ucdavis.bsky.social · Aug 27

Prof. Cecilia Tsu led an interdisciplinary team of undergraduate and graduate students on this research project! At #ucdavis undergrads have the opportunity to graduate level #research.
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Sam Garcia was in her final year at University of California, Davis, when, like many students in their college years, she had not yet identified a clear future path.Then, through a UC Davis history pr...

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History UC Davis @history-ucdavis.bsky.social · Jul 27

Justin Sollit has won the Walter Woodfill Prize for the best undergraduate research paper for the 2024-25 academic year in recognition for “Medical Reform Debates for the Union Army After the First Battle of Bull Run” Congratulations, Justin!

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UC Davis College of Letters & Science @ucdlands.bsky.social · Jul 11

Stuart has spent her career illuminating some of the most complex and haunting parts of the human past, from early modern justice systems to the unsettling phenomenon of “suicide by proxy” in 18th-century Germany.

Read more about her work at the L&S Magazine!

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UC Davis College of Letters & Science @ucdlands.bsky.social · Jul 11

History professor Kathy Stuart at @ucdavis.bsky.social has recently been chosen by her students to receive the Excellence in Education Award!

In her nomination, students cited her empathy, clarity, and the way she connects the darkest moments of the past to timeless human struggles.

Students Honor History Professor Who Connects Today’s Conspiracies with Humanity’s Dark Past

With a frequently playful approach, historian Kathy Stuart invites students to engage deeply with very serious topics like stigma and persecution in early modern Europe. This year, ASUCD, the undergra...

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History UC Davis @history-ucdavis.bsky.social · Jun 24

Congratulations to PhD student Xiwen Yang, awarded the runner-up Scholz Prize for her paper titled "“The Sufi Reimagining of Copernican Cosmology in Eighteenth-Century Anatolia”. The yearly Scholz prize recognizes the best paper written in the 2nd-year research seminar (HIS 203).

Davis Humanities Institute Awards Fellowships‬ for Collaborative Research

History UC Davis @history-ucdavis.bsky.social · Jun 23

Prof Marian Schlotterbeck wins #ucdavis Humanities Institute Fellowship for Collaborative Research supporting the publication of a special issue on “Latin America in the 1980s” with the Journal of Latin American Studies.
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The Davis Humanities Institute (DHI) has awarded two faculty in the College of Letters and Science with Network Collaboration Fellowships‬ that provide $5,000 in support for fellows or their collabora...

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Preserving Human Rights Archives in Peru: UC Davis Leads New Digitization Project to Safeguard an Endangered History

History UC Davis @history-ucdavis.bsky.social · Jun 23

Professor Charles Walker is working on a groundbreaking digitization project in Peru, bringing fragile human rights documents online.
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#Peru
#humanrights

Charles Walker, a professor of history in the UC Davis College of Letters and Science, was recently awarded a $100,000 grant to digitize archives from three major human rights organizations in Peru. W...

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History UC Davis @history-ucdavis.bsky.social · Jun 23

Professor Lisa Materson’s new book RADICAL SOLIDARITY receives an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Elsa Goveia Book Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians! Congratulations, Professor Materson!
#skystorians

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History UC Davis @history-ucdavis.bsky.social · Jun 6

The Department of History is saddened by the passing of our colleague Mario Biagioli, who taught at UC Davis from 2010 to 2019. Read more about Dr. Biagioli at the link below and in our bio.

history.ucdavis.edu/mario-biagioli