The author of Waves of Resistance: Surfing and History in 20th Century Hawaii will be speaking, following an introduction by Dr. Teresa Shewry (UCSB, English) of the Center for Literature […]

Dr. Susan Fitzpatrick-BehrensCal State Northridge Thursday, April 26 11:00-12:15 HSSB 2252 In the 1960s, paraprofessional health programs proliferated in the Maya regions of Guatemala’s western highlands.. The programs responded to […]

This talk will examine debates surrounding immigration in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in the 1960s and 1970s. South Africa in 1961 and Rhodesia in 1965 […]

The history of Cahora Bassa reveals the persistence of “colonialism’s afterlife.” Under the 1974 Lusaka Peace Accord, which set the stage for Mozambique’s independence, in return for assuming the US$550 […]

Openness may seem self-evident as a principle of library policy, but libraries have often been closed and the world of knowledge in general has been fenced off by commercial interests […]

NOTE THE ROOM CHANGE! In this Public History First Thursday meeting Julia will discuss her current work on an international public history project: an online exhibit based on the lives […]

Pearson is the author, with Jacob Hacker, of both Off-Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy (2005) and Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and […]

The Annual Public History Book Sale has arrived!!! We have more than a thousand used and new books. Used books are from the shelves of Professors Sears McGee, Laura Kalman […]

This talk is based on a work in progress about racist violence in contemporary eastern Germany. By analyzing case studies, I examine how survivors interpret and mediate racist attacks, and […]

Colleagues, Students, Friends: The Colloquium on Work, Labor, and Political Economy hosts Stephan Miescher, History, UCSB this Friday, May 11, at 1 p.m. in Humanities and Social Science Building Room […]