FEATURED PROJECT:
HAYWARD IS HOME
Hayward is Home is the culmination of a Fall 2022 digital historical methods course (HIST403) taught by Dr. Bridget Ford, current chair of the History Department at California State University, East Bay. Drawing inspiration from other digital humanities projects, a diverse group of undergraduates, graduate students, and lifelong learners came together to mine the archives at the with no idea where our research would take us. We identified three central themes throughout the materials: Meanings of Home, Understandings, and Belonging. From a home-grown radical newspaper printed in the 1970s, to a hidden Japanese garden oasis that changed the course of two highways, to the endangered–and adorable–salt marsh harvest mouse that calls the Hayward Shoreline home—Hayward’s history offers something for everyone.
FEATURED PROJECT:
ARCHIVES AROUND CALIFORNIA
Cal State East Bay's History and History-Social Science majors hail from across the state of California. We take advantage of our geographical breadth to investigate the truly unique surviving historical documents and collections throughout our vast state.
In their first advanced course in their major degrees, HIST 201, Why History Matters, our majors visit a physical archive near their residence to examine original primary sources and artifacts preserved for the study of the past. Our majors find amazing materials and documents very close to them, to incorporate into future research or teaching projects. This project also allows our majors to learn about the extensive work of curation and archival preservation that takes place throughout our state.
Take a look at a few examples of our majors' Archives Around California video reflections!
DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECTS
History majors at Cal State East Bay have the opportunity to practice digital humanities, investigating histories piquing their curiosity and research interests. Digital humanities is a diverse and rapidly evolving field that our majors explore and practice, to carry historical knowledge outside the classroom to wide audiences and to take advantage of digital tools and forms of analysis outside traditional narrative forms.
An Intern's Look at the Early San Francisco Punk Scene through the San Francisco Punk Archive
Cal State East Bay history major McKenzie (Mac) Reed interned at the Punk Rock Archive at the San Francisco Public Library. During her internship she assisted with the archiving of punk rock flyers donated to the library, wrote blog posts andStudent Projects
Project Ukraine
Each year the department’s Warfare, Genocide, Terrorism: Violence and Globalization since 1914 undertakes a digital or public history project related to one of the case studies from the course. The current war in Ukraine is a shocking reminder of the continued relevance of 20th century history and the ability of political violence to shift the world order quickly and permanently.
Our Spring 2023 students collaborated to craft a single timeline of key events as they happened.
Stalingrad
Students from Dr. McGuire's "Warfare, Terrorism, and Genocide" class set up a tent outside the student union and showed passersby a multimedia experience about the Battle of Stalingrad.
Click below to watch the video.
Latin American Monsters
Students in Dr. Alexander's Public History class collaborated with digital illustration students from Josh Funk's class at Chico State to explore the history of folklore and monsters in Latin America. The history students wrote essays and the art students interpreted the essays and created illustrations about each monster.