More than 120 years before Edison and the Lumiere brothers created modern motion pictures, a new attraction called the "Eidophusikon" opened in Leicester Square. Described in the London press as […]
Santa Barbara, Calif. - UC Santa Barbara's Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS) and the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) are inviting the Santa Barbara community to attend a casual public […]
Risa Goluboff is a legal historian who argues that the New Deal, the cold War, and the NAACP wing of the civil rights movement redefined the meaning of civil rights, […]
Lee Hamilton will discuss how America can accomplish its goals in the world while recognizing the limitations of our power. He will provide an overview of Iraq, terrorism, and other […]
Gerardo Aldana is an affiliated faculty member in the Department of History.
Historian Paul Farber of Oregon State University explores whether nature is a guide for human actions and if humans have an evolutionary ethic. Many biologists have been uneasy with seeking […]
Historian Jane Maienschein of Arizona State University is a former Congressional Fellow and Senior Science Advisor. She debunks the common idea that stem cell science began in 1998 and maintains […]
Linda Gordon is a founder and one of the foremost practitioners of feminist scholarship in the United States. She is the author of Women's Body, Women's Right: The History of […]
Professor Patrick McCray will give a public lecture about the role of amateur scientists and the opening of the Space Age. The talk will be at the Kavli Institute for […]
Noted jazz historian Douglas Daniels and the History Department's favorite pianist, Frank Frost, reunite to celebrate the History Associates' 20th anniversary with this special program that will also commemorate the […]