This documentary explores the historical accounts of migrant Mexican farm workers brought into the U.S. from 1942 to1964 under the temporary contract worker program known as the Bracero Program to […]

Presidio Chapel at El Presidio de Santa Bárbara SHP123 East Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara, CA Independent scholar Vladimir Guerrero is author of the book The Anza Trail and the […]

Please join us for a talk by Reuel Schiller, University of California, Hasting College of Law. “Civil Rights Protest and Labor Union Autonomy: The 1966 Hilton Hotel Protests and the […]

Despite its seeming newness, nanotechnology already has many different historical narratives. From seminal speeches at the start of the Space Age to futuristic imaginings in the 1980s to industrial commercialization […]

In the following schedule, the name of the student’s mentor appears in parenthesis and that of the commentator in brackets. 1-1:30 pm: Benjamin Lopez, “The Sullivan Campaign of 1779 and […]

"Why Should I Join Learned Societies -- AHA, OAH, LASA, MESA, NCPH -- Even Though I Now Can Get Their Journals Free?" This brown-bag talk will be held Wednesday, May […]

In the following schedule, the name of the student’s mentor appears in parenthesis and that of the commentator in brackets. 2:30-3 pm: Andrew Seguin, “Forays into the ‘Urban Frontier’: The […]

Presidio Chapel at El Presidio de Santa Bárbara SHP123 East Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara, CA Vanessa Crispin-Peralta, adjunct professor of history at Westmont College, will draw upon her doctoral […]

At the height of Han expansion, the northern frontier of the Han Empire stretched from northern Korea in the east to the Tengger Desert in the west and onward into […]

In the following schedule, the name of the student’s mentor appears in parenthesis and that of the commentator in brackets. 1-1:30 pm: Cheyanne Gustason, “Some Like It Haute: the Role […]