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UCSB Associated Students History Initiatives

The Living History Project is an exciting new effort that uses a variety of media, including archival materials, interviews, and video to bring together stories and remembrances about the role […]

Questions and Answers about Nazi Art

75 years ago, the first Great German Art Exhibition (Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung) opened at the new „House of German Art“. The show was accompanied by the infamous exhibition „Degenerate Art“ […]

White Wash

“White Wash” explores the complexity of race in America through the eyes of the ocean via the history of African Americans and water culture from slavery, civil rights wade-ins to […]

Nuclear Weapons and Humanity’s Future

11th Annual Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future Daniel Ellsberg is America’s best known whistleblower for his role in releasing the Pentagon Papers in 1971, a move that harkened […]

The Cold War, Human Rights, and Self-Determination

During the Cold War countless peoples and movements in both the decolonizing world and the advanced industrial states mobilized under the banner of self-determination and sought to institutionalize its status […]

Civitates Permixtae: Cicero, Arendt, Augustine

This talk is sponsored by the Department of Classics, the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program, and the UC Multi-Campus Research Group on Late Antiquity. jwil 18.i.2012