My own conclusion is that history is simply social development along the lines of weakest resistance, and that in most cases the line of weakest resistance is found as unconsciously by society as by water.”

—Henry Adams

 

History Department, CSU, Chico

Karen Nissen

Research

Professor Nissen’s current research focuses upon the history of Weimar Germany.

Publications

Professor Nissen is the author of “A Masculine Self in a Feminine Other,” in The Image of America, “Weitling, Wilhelm,” in American National Biography, and “Visions of Modernity,” in The UCLA Historical Journal, vol. 15.