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Steve Zipperstein, “The Impeachment Wars: What Lies Ahead”

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

The Trump impeachment saga has gained startling momentum in recent days. As the proceedings accelerate, fascinating legal and policy questions arise. Can the president pardon people who have committed crimes at […]

Einstein’s War: How World War I Made Relativity (Matt Stanley, NYU)

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

Join us for the next Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture...13 November 2019 at 4PM  About the talk: Einstein’s ascent to worldwide celebrity was, in large part, not his own doing. The […]

Queen Victoria and the Making of the Modern Monarchy

Karpeles Manuscript Library 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

In this talk, Dr. Erika Rappaport, Professor and Chair of the Department of History at UCSB and historian of British consumer culture, explores how Queen Victoria became the first media […]

lecture by Jon Meacham, “America Then and Now”

Granada Theater Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Jon Meacham will be speaking on "American Then and Now: What History Tells Us About the Future" at the Granada Theater as part of Arts and Lectures "History Matters" series […]

Anna Rudolph, “Queen Radegund and the Monarchy in Medieval Europe”

Karpeles Manuscript Library 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Come hear Anna Rudolph's presentation on Queen Radegund (520AD – 587AD) – a royal sainted lady of Thuringia. Radegund was a princess and a war captive who became the unwilling […]