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 Hayward Area Historical Society 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.
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 and helped out with the Frightwig collectionStudent 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.