General Histories of Academic Departments and Schools

University of California

History Digital Archives - Schools and Departments:

https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/uchistory/general_history/campuses/ucb/colleges.html

Professional Schools and Colleges

College of Chemistry: 

https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/history

College of Engineering:

https://engineering.berkeley.edu/milestones

College of Environmental Design:

https://archives.ced.berkeley.edu/

Goldman School of Public Policy: 

https://gspp.berkeley.edu/about/history

Graduate School of Education: 

https://gse.berkeley.edu/about-us/gse-history

Haas School of Business:

https://haas.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/centennial.pdf

School of Information:

https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/history

School of Journalism:

https://journalism.berkeley.edu/about/history

School of Law:

https://www.law.berkeley.edu/about-us/history

School of Optometry:

https://optometry.berkeley.edu/berkeley-optometry-timeline

School of Public Health:

https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/about/history/

School of Social Welfare:

https://socialwelfare.berkeley.edu/about/history

Departments

African American Studies:

Ronald Williams II. Forty Years Later: African American Studies Still Flourishes. 2010. 

Anthropology:

https://anthropology.berkeley.edu/about/history

Astronomy:

https://astro.berkeley.edu/about/history

Botany:

http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/history/botanyatberkeley

Civil Engineering:

https://ce.berkeley.edu/about/history

Classics: 

https://classics.berkeley.edu/about/department-history

Joseph Fontenrose. Classics at Berkeley, The First Century, 1869-1970. 

Demography:

https://www.site.demog.berkeley.edu

Economics:

https://www.econ.berkeley.edu/about-us

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences:

https://eecs.berkeley.edu/about/history

Lotfi Zadeh. “How the Computer Science Department was formed” (video) 

Richard Karp, "30 years of Berkeley Computer Science", 2019 (video)

John Torous. Clarence Cory and an Early History of Electrical Engineering at Berkeley, 2007.

Ethnic Studies: 

http://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/about/history

Gender and Womens Studies:

https://womensstudies.berkeley.edu/about/history

German:

https://german.berkeley.edu/about/past-and-present/

Geography:

https://geography.berkeley.edu/our-department/history

Geology:

https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/uchistory/general_history/campuses/ucb/depa... 

http://eps.berkeley.edu/history

Integrative Biology:

https://ib.berkeley.edu/newsletter/spring-2020/walking-the-walk-female-IB-faculty-Q%26A

Linguistics:

https://lx.berkeley.edu/about/history-berkeley-linguistics

Mathematics:

https://math.berkeley.edu/about/history

Moore, Calvin C. Mathematics at Berkeley: a History. AK Peters. Wellesley, Massachusetts, 2007. 

Music and Music Library:

https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/about_the_music_library/history

John H. Roberts. "The Music Library, University of Californa at Berkeley", The Library Quarterly 64, 1 (January 1994): 73-84.

https://music.berkeley.edu/about-us/history/

Physics:

https://physics.berkeley.edu/about-us/history

Psychology:

Macfarlane, Jean, “Psychology” which traces the field’s presence at Berkeley from 1888-1961.

Grold, Joan D., 1961, “A History of the University of California Psychology Department at Berkeley.” An honors thesis completed under the direction of Professor Jean Macfarlane. 

Sociology:

https://publicsociology.berkeley.edu/intro/berkeleysociology/berkeleysoc... 

Statistics:

https://statistics.berkeley.edu/history/

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.6450.pdf

Organizations 

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive:

Center for Studies in Higher Education:

https://cshe.berkeley.edu/about/history-cshe

Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: