Modern Americans love thinking that the Hopi people of the Southwest represent the epitome of peacefulness. But in the year 1700, in the populous village of Awat’ovi, Hopi slaughtered Hopi […]
In the mid-1960s, NASA began building space technologies for the war in Vietnam. Students from the New Left vigorously protested against the space agency, which responded in the early 1970s by […]
Sherene Seikaly Event Description: This talk explores British economic policy in the Middle East in general and Palestine specifically during WWII. Scholarly depictions have focused on the importance of measuring […]
Elizabeth Cobbs and James Shelley grant us a sneak preview of their forthcoming PBS documentary film, "American Umpire," based on Prof. Cobbs's acclaimed history book of the same name. The […]
Betty K. Koed is the U.S. Senate Historian and Director of the Senate Historical office. Koed earned her Ph.D. in political and public history at the University of California, Santa […]
ICW Director Bill Deverell with Veronica Castillo-Munoz (UCSB), Kelly Lytle Hernandez (UCLA), and Jessica Kim (CSUN). Hundred Years Since Columbus- Pancho Villa, the Border, & U.S. History
Women in History Lecture: Rose Bird--Chief Justice of California Kathleen Cairns PhD (retired annuitant in Women's History/Gender Studies at Cal Poly SCU) will be speaking about Rose Elizabeth Bird (1936-1999), […]
Andrew Jewett's talk traces fears about science's cultural impact among intellectual and political leaders and ordinary citizens in postwar America. Jewett is the author of Science, Democracy, and the American […]
Why do we care about preserving biodiversity? At the beginning of the 21st century biodiversity has come to be seen as fragile and tenuous, constantly endangered by the threat of […]
"Diplomacy as a Means of Political Survival: The Cities and Duchies of the Northern Holy Roman Empire in relation to France, 1650–1730" Talk by Indravati Félicité, Maîtresse de conférences, Université […]