History
Lori Clune
Professor and Graduate Coordinator
Office: Social Sciences 128
Email: lclune@csufresno.edu
Office Phone: 559-278-8895
Education:
Ph.D. - University of California, Davis (2010)
Social Science Teaching Credential (1991)
MA - New York University (1987)
BA - Purchase College (1985)
Fall 2026
| Course | Days/Times |
|---|---|
| HIST194 U.S. and Vietnam | M/W/F 12:00pm - 12:50pm |
| HONOR 12 - U.S. in the Twentieth Century World - Global Culture, History and Values | T/Th 9:30am - 10:45am |
Spring 2027
| Course | Days/Times |
|---|---|
| HIST 163 - History of Games | M/W/F 2:00pm - 2:50pm |
| HIST 179T - U.S. and Cuba | T/Th 2:00pm - 3:15pm |
| HIST210T - U.S. in the World | W 6:00pm - 8:50pm |
- Modern United States
- Cold War
- Diplomatic History
- Espionage
- Games / Video Games
Books:
Executing the Rosenbergs: Death and Diplomacy in a Cold War World, (NY: Oxford University Press, 2016).
Articles and Book Chapters:
“Pushing Back: Nuclear Disarmament and Peace Activism during the Cold War and Beyond,” in Kimber Quinney and Amy L. Sayward, eds., Understanding and Teaching Contemporary American History since 1980 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, forthcoming, winter 2021).
“Waging War with Words, 1945-1963” in Christopher Dietrich, ed., A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations, Colonial Era to the Present (Mass: Wiley Blackwell, 2020).
“How Donald Trump Could Use His Pardon Power for Good,” Made by History, The Washington Post, 19 June 2018.
“David Greenglass,” entry in Susan Ware, ed., American National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).
“Political Ideology and Activism to 1966” in Andrew L. Johns, ed., A Companion to Ronald Reagan (Mass: Wiley Blackwell, 2015), ISBN: 978-1-11-860777-0.
“What Died with Ethel and Julius Rosenberg? Losing Hearts and Minds in 1950s Latin America,” in Avital Bloch and Rosario Rodriguez, eds., The Cold War: North America and Latin America, 1945-1970 / La Guerra Fria y las Americas, 1945-1970 (Mexico: University of Colima Press, 2013), Spanish translation, ISBN: 978-607-424-407-6.
Additional opinion essays for History News Network, and numerous book reviews for H-Diplo and the Journal of Cold War Studies.
Undergraduate:
- U.S. Since 1877
- Historical Research & Writing
- History of American Games
- History of/in Video Games
- U.S. and Cuba
- U.S. and Vietnam
- U.S. and the Great Wars, 1914-1945
- U.S. During the Cold War
- U.S. in the Twentieth Century World
Graduate:
- Intro to Graduate Writing and Historiography
- U.S. Since 1877
- Cold War America
- Global Cold War
- From cold war to Cold War
- Cold War Culture