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6900 Choice Books
Required Texts
MA Handbook
Faculty
Do I know my colleagues?
100

This term has been more generally applied to describe a historical era said to follow after modernity and the tendencies of this era.

Post Modernism

100

This choice book was a collection of oral history interviews

The Good War by Studs Terkel

100

What region was neglected in Weinburgs, "A short introduction to World War II?

The Pacific

100

This is one of the ways you may fulfill the cultural skills requirement

Internship, Foreign Language Class, Study Abroad, Translation Exam

100

I serve as the History Department Chair

Dr. Jones

100

I was a 911/police dispatcher at LAPD

Cecilia

200

The theory that the United States is inherently different from other nations

American Exceptionalism

200

This group of people were considered an ecological threat.

(Black Earth)

The Jewish people

200

Most of the western world paid little attention to the 70th anniversary of this event. (Mitter)

The Cairo Conference

200

How many units of independent study are allowed?

6

200

This faculty member focuses on Ancient Egyptian History

Dr. Lizska

200

 This theme park has never been visited by Alexander and is loathed by Dr. Jeremy Murray PhD

Disneyland

300

This individual was the subject matter of Carlos Ginzburgs The Cheese and the Worm

Mennochio

300

Who coined "The gestapo" in Detroit? (Bitter Fruit)

Justice Marshall

300

What was WWII known as in Rana Mitter's text?

The War of Resistance Against Japan

300

What are the 3 culminating project options?

Thesis, Research Project, and Portfolio

300

My research interests focus on the Civil War Era with a special focus on soldiers, veterans, and families and the impact of the war on notions of ethnicity, identity, race, and gender.

Dr. Keating

300

I lived on a farm for 14 years

Andrew

400

"Above all, a fraud is, in its way, a piece of evidence."

Marc Bloch

400

What is the historical term used to reference the change in U.S. policy towards Japan post-WWII?

(America's Geisha Ally)

Reverse Course

400

Heuaktion also known as the Hay Operation (Weinburg)

Kidnapping of many thousands of babies and very young children who looked 'Germanic' and were turned over for adoption to German families

400

What are the minimum number of credits required to complete the MA program?

30 credits

400

My interests lie in The history of the American West, Environmental history, the history of American capitalism, labor history, history education and the Scholarship on Teaching and Learning.

Dr. Karp

400

I have traveled to 14 countries

Jacq

500

What author draws awareness to the two types of histories, secular (which has an absence of cultural aspects such as religion) and non-secular?

Chakrabarty

500

This United States government agency established to handle the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II?

The War Relocation Act/Authority

500

These places served as the wartime capitals for the Communist Regime and the Nationalist Government

Yan'an and Chongqing

500

How many members are on a graduate committee?

3

500

I study the convergence of politics, warfare, and death in the Roman Republic as well as war's impact on Roman social, cultural, and political history. He also uses tools from the social sciences - particularly demography - to reconstruct aspects of life in antiquity for which our sources are largely silent.

Dr. Barber

500

I’m a huge stationary fan

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