"Genocide in the Golden State: The Mariposa War, Indigenous Resistance, and Survival,” Theodore Rossier, 2025.
“The Vignoble Valley: A History of California’s Wine Industry and the Role of the Central Valley, 1769-1980,” Clayton Gomez, 2022.
“Seeing Red over the Climate Crisis: Ecosocialism as Emergency Brake,” Ken Boettcher, 2021.
“An Augustinian and His Age: Christopher Dawson’s Philosophy of History,” Joshua Tanis, 2020.
The Department of History at California State University, Stanislaus, adheres to the professional ethics and standards of the historical profession and the larger academic community. Both faculty and students are responsible for practicing and enforcing professional standards of conduct and scholarship.
All students will take a series of three 90-minute comprehensive exams. Students writing a thesis will take their exams after completing 22 units. Students not writing a thesis will take their exams after completing 30 units. Comprehensive exams must be completed within one year of completing coursework.
How did we get where we are today? What caused past events? What difference did individuals make? If these and other questions intrigue you, history has the answers—or, more specifically, a choice of answers.
Using personal narratives and historical artifacts, this exhibition explores the Assyrian Genocide era — roughly 1895 through 1924 in the Ottoman Empire and Persia — and the subsequent experience of Assyrian resettlement in the US. The exhibition tells the stories of the survivors whose photos we see: survivors who lost family, endured unspeakable hardship, and built a future for their families. It also features several paintings by contemporary Assyrian artists reflecting on the legacy of the genocide and diaspora.
