Ever since it premiered in 1927, The Jazz Singer has been considered the paradigmatic film about the Americanization of the children of Jewish immigrants. The movie has inspired remakes and […]

At the beginning of the fifth century BCE, Achaemenid Persia had the largest navy in the world, but after its failed invasions of Greece, the empire limited its warships’ numbers […]

The History Department is co-sponsoring the upcoming conference "Gender, Creative Dissidence, and the Discourses of African Diaspora: A Colloquium in Honor of Ama Ata Aidoo," to be held at the […]

The Persians used elephants in their military from the Achaemenid to the Safavid period. The talk discusses the importance of elephants forSasanian royal ideology as a symbol of kingship, and […]

Honors Colloquium to Show Disease, Witchcraft, Murder by Dyne Suh and Nate Gelman, excerpted from Historia, May 2012 From televangelists to venereal disease, dictators to witchs' teats, 15 seminarians tested […]

This paper examines 19th-20th century European missionary cultural attitudes, discourses and practices and their impact on African consciousness and socio-cultural security, read primarily through the prism of performative cultures (primarily […]

The Orfalea Center Seminar Room is1005 Robertson Gym (detached office wing in front of main Ocean Road entrance) In Mali today, appeals to confront the “scourge” (fléau) of music piracy […]

Whereas nowadays ‘expertise’ has become a problematic concept, especially in regard to the doubt expressed against scientists participating in the debate over climate change, the role this notion played in […]

History Associates President Ann Moore and the members of the UCSB History Associates Board invite the interested public to this year's History Awards Ceremony, which will be held on Thursday, […]

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