UCSB HISTORY ASSOCIATES Special Event: ‘A Life for the Books’ An Evening with Librarian of Congress James Billington Sponsored by the Friends of the Library of the Santa Ynez Valley […]

In this talk, Professor Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman challenges the assumption that the United States is an empire. Rather, it acts as an arbiter and enforcer in a world system where […]

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Professor Smith’s research centers on the civilizations of ancient Egypt and Nubia. He is particularly interested in theidentification of ethnicity in the archaeological record and the ethnic dynamics of colonial […]

Montefiore has written an epic history of the world's most contested place through the lives of those who created, destroyed, conquered, wrote about--and believed in--the Holy City. See this October […]

The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Making of Modern America (Oxford 2010) winner of the Spur Prize for Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction Book Lawrence Culver Associate Professor of History Utah […]

Among the finds from the Achaemenid palace of Persepolis a classical Greek marble statue of highest quality, representing Odysseus’ wife Penelope, constitutes an ongoing and still unexplained surprise. How, by […]

Experience the dances of early California in the historic Presidio Chapel withdancer and teacher Diana Replogle-Purinton. Diana is the director of Las Fiesteras folk dance group, and has over three […]

The cast of England’s Globe Theater company will be performing Shakespeare’s “AComedy of Errors” in Cambell Hall Nov. 8-11. We have arranged for director Rebecca Gatward and one of the […]