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Graduate Student Colloquium: Isabella Gabrovsky on “Rethinking Britain” and Mario Tumen on “Decolonization of Taxation in Peru”

HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The Workshop on Theoretical Perspectives on War, Political Violence, Nationalism and the State (History 291)  is pleased to invite you to its final open presentation and discussion this Friday May 26 from 3:00 to 5:30 pm  in HSSB 4020.  Two graduate students, Isabella Gabrovsky and Mario Tumen, will be presenting their work in progress on Britain and Peru. […]

2017-2018 History New Majors Meeting

HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Come to make connections with History Departmental faculty members! One of them could potentially become your academic mentor in future years at UCSB. You will also get to meet peers in your graduating cohort and even new friends or study buddies in the department! Learn the who`s who of UCSB History! There will be an […]

American History & Institutions Exam

HSSB 3237 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

NOTE: This exam is used to fulfill the UCSB American History & Institutional General Educational requirement. History majors and minors, please contact the History Undergraduate Advisor, Alan Vu for specific questions about how your degree/minor requirements could be fulfilled through this exam. The current reading list to prepare for the examination can be found below with […]

“Agrarian Quests: The Search for Comunidades and Campesinos in Rural Peru,” a lecture by Javier Puente

HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Abstract The history of twentieth-century Peru is the history of the rural countryside, its governance, and the making of comunidadesand campesinosas foundational elements of a social, economic, and political landscape. Throughout a number of decades, domestic state powers and transnational capital turned lands and pastures into battlegrounds of ideas about labor, property, and modernization at […]

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Building a Green New Deal: Community, Coalition, Organizing for Environmental Justice: A Public Forum

HSSB 6020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

In communities, classrooms, and protest sites across the country, people have embraced the call for a Green New Deal as a way of recognizing that climate change presents us with an unprecedented historic challenge—and the need for comprehensive and transformational reform. California’s Central Coast has a powerful tradition of grassroots activism to draw on in […]

Susan Lederer, “‘Send My Body to the Medical College’: Alternative Afterlives in Turn of the Century America”

HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Dr. Susan Lederer, Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Madison will be giving a talk on Thursday, January 9 at 5:30 pm entitled "'Send My Body to the Medical College': Alternative Afterlives in Turn of the Century America." In 1876 American and English newspapers reported the extraordinary will made by an American […]

What Really Happened at Waco?

https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/6855143149 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The 51-day standoff between the FBI and David Koresh's Branch Davidians ended in tragedy on April 19, 1993. A fire consumed the Branch Davidian compound during an FBI tear gas operation that morning, resulting in 75 deaths. To this day conspiracy theories about Waco continue motivating anti-government and other militia movements in the United States. […]

Focal Point Dialogues | Winter 2022: Sovereignty, statehood, anti-slavery, and the law | Ada Ferrer’s Freedom’s Mirror

HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Focal Point Dialogues was an initiative born in 2020 as a Department commitment to educate ourselves in the history of anti-Blackness. The idea was conceived in the aftermath of  the killing of George Floyd and the national and international uprising it triggered. This education starts by understanding when did "blackness" become a thing, to begin with, […]

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