Eileen Boris's new book, Caring for America: Home Health Care Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State, explains how law makers, health care administrators, government officials, labor organizers, and millions of working women have constructed a distinctively new and controversial occupational category out of which hundreds of thousands of workers have been organized. The […]

"Labor's Fate after Wisconsin," featuring Heather and Paul Booth. Both are long-time political activists. Heather Booth founded the Midwest Academy, a training center for organizers, and she has worked closely with labor groups and the Democratic Party to register millions of new minority voters, advance the AFL-CIO health care agenda and the Dodd/Frank financial reform […]

During the heydey of silent films, Santa Barbara’s Flying A Studios competed withthe best of them, creating almost 900 films between 1912-1920. On Saturday, July 7, UCSB film Prof. Dana Driskel and local historian Neal Graffy will recreate that lost era with clips that will include the first known surviving film made here, a classic […]

Summer Session A instruction ends hm 6/21/12

Summer Session B classes start. hm 6/21/12

Have you ever wondered how the streets surrounding the Santa Barbara Airport were named? For example, who were David Love, Augustus Griggs and Clyde Adams? They were among the 49 local aviators who lost their lives during World War II. The Goleta Valley Historical Society will host a lecture, With Their Eyes Turned Skyward: Santa […]

Summer Session B instruction ends hm 6/21/12

Prof. James Brooks, President and CEO of the School of Advanced Research in Santa Fe (and former UCSB professor), will speak on Dinetah and Navajo history and present politics. Prof. Brooks, together with Prof. Smith in Anthropology and Prof. Digeser in History, will be teaching a three-quarter graduate seminar on comparative borderlands at UCSB in […]

Fall 2012 classes begin hm 6/21/12

Nelson is the author of Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of An American Legend (2008) which won the Merle Curti Prize for the best book in U.S. social and cultural history. Nelson's paper can be found here.