You are invited to join us for the third meeting of the Colloquium for Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall from the California State University, San Marcos who will be […]
Speaker: Dr. Khalid Zahri, Royal Library, Rabat, Morocco. Sponsored by the UCSB Center for Middle East Studies.
We are so used to the idea of the royal mistress as a constituent element of the French king’s grandeur that we tend not to think about how strange it […]
Rockman is the author of Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (2008) and co-editor, with Sven Beckert, of Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development (2016). Scraping By won the […]
Keel argues that the enduring belief that race comes from "nature" reflects the haunting influence of Christian intellectual history on the development of modern scientific thinking about human ancestry.2018-Keel-flyer-pdf
Felix III, who held the papal seat from 483-492, is called by several scholars "Rome's first aristocratic bishop." As the first elected pope after the fall of the last western […]
The Echigo province migrant was a familiar type in nineteenth-century Edo. Every year in the tenth month, snow country peasants would come down the mountains on the Nakasendō Highway and […]
Chatelain is currently writing a book about race and fast food, From Sit-In to Drive-Thru: Black America in the Age of Fast Food (under contract, Liveright, an imprint of W.W. Norton). Her first […]
French royal medals crossed into a radically different cultural context when awarded to the Amerindian people of Canada in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. So it may come […]
