The Senior Honors Seminar is a two-quarter seminar for majors in History, History of Public Policy, and Medieval Studies to be held in fall 2016 and winter 2017. The informational meeting for interested and eligible students is scheduled for Wednesday, May 4th from 2-3:30 pm in HSSB 4020. Please contact Prof. Hilary Bernstein at bernstein@history.ucsb.edu […]
Keynote talk: “Men in Women's Monasteries: Nuns' Priests in the Central Middle Ages” by Fiona Griffiths, Professor of History at Stanford University The Medieval Studies Program would like to invite you to join us for our annual conference, May 7, 2016. The theme of this year's conference is "Gender and Religious Practice in the Middle Ages." […]
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 by the hundreds in a predawn raid, showering crushed red pepper, fire, and arrows into subterranean kivas while kidnapping the women and children who survived. […]
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 scrapping several of its military projects and instead developing satellites that could collect useful ecological data on natural resources around the world. Soon scientists, engineers, […]
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 and realizing economic growth. This analysis looks instead at the construction and provision of basic needs during times of scarcity. It shows how British officials […]
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 film recounts America's post-World War II role as the world's policemen and explores whether the United States can, and should, continue to play that role […]
UCSB History Department's Annual Senior Honors Seminar Colloquium Friday, May 20th 4020 HSSB 8:30 AM Coffee and pastries 9:00 AM Welcome - Professor Sharon Farmer, Chair of the History Department - Professor Debra Blumenthal, Director of 2015-16 Senior Honors Seminar 9:15 AM Bruno Tomasini, “The Danger of Moral Necessity: The Dissolution of the Civil Rights Congress” […]
Please join the History Department for its 6th annual Islamic Studies Graduate Student Conference, beginning on May 20th and concluding on the 22nd in HSSB's McCune Conference Room. For additional information, including the schedule of speakers, please review the conference program which is provided below. Download the Conference Program
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 Barbara, where she also taught history and provided editorial assistance to The Public Historian. A Senate Historian, Koed supervises all historical and archival projects, provides […]
The UCSB History Associates and the Department of History honor the recipients of this year's History Associates and Department of History awards at the Annual Awards Ceremony: Wednesday June 1, 2016 at 4:00pm UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center McCune Conference Room Sixth floor Humanities and Social Sciences Building
