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Martyrs, Apologists and the Ancient Novel

Kate Cooper is Professor of Ancient History in the Department of Ancient History and Classics at the University of Manchester. Professor Cooper's research interest is in the cultural, social, and […]

A Thirsty Revolution

Mikael Wolfe is a visiting assistant professor of environmental history at UCLA. He is an expert in history of modern Mexico, specifically agrarian reform, water policy, and environment. He is […]

Contested Borderlands

Verónica Castillo-Muñoz, Assistant Professor in Chicano History, will be speaking about her research topic, "Contested Borderlands: Gender, Transnational Migration, and the Movement for Land Reform in Baja California, 1900-1937". Sponsored […]

Learn the Mexican tradition of tamale making

Tamale Making, Saturday, December 3 from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Learn the Mexican tradition of tamale making with George Hernández, a Ventura County cook for over 40 years. Learn […]

The Incas and sacred space in colonial Cuzco

Gabriela Ramos is lecturer in Latin American History at the University of Cambridge, and author the Death and Conversion in the Andes: Cuzco and Lima 1532-1670 (University of Notre Dame […]

Start of Winter Quarter Classes

See the calendar at:www.registrar.ucsb.edu/cal2012.htm On our Courses page you will find some syllabi (click the Download link), and links to the instructors' faculty pages, where there are often announcements about […]

PANEL: Welfare as a Public Good

Please join us for the next event in the IHC's Public Goods series: McCune Conference Room, Contrary to conventional wisdom, the notion of welfare as a public good has a […]

Note-taking and -organizing for historians

Dear History Graduate Students: I plan to devote two-hours of my History 223A (Research Seminar in Modern Europe) to the art of note-taking and note-organizing. I decided to open this […]