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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Summer Session A classes start. hm 6/21/12

Eileen Boris's new book, Caring for America: Home Health Care Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State, explains how law makers, health care administrators, government officials, labor organizers, and […]

"Labor's Fate after Wisconsin," featuring Heather and Paul Booth. Both are long-time political activists. Heather Booth founded the Midwest Academy, a training center for organizers, and she has worked closely […]