The twenty-year project (1992-2011) at Kinet Höyük, an ancient seaport near Iskenderun in Turkey, offers a long perspective on maritime life in the northeasternmost corner of the Mediterranean. Kinet can […]

AbstractThe British scientific journal Nature, founded in 1869, is now one of the world’s most prestigious scientific publications. This talk examines the ways that contributor interests have influenced Nature's, development using […]

AbstractIn 1964, the National Cancer Institute established the multi-million dollar Special Virus Leukemia Program, which sought to apply the methods of Cold War defense planning to the production of a […]

Prof. Eileen Boris; January 30 at 4 p.m.; McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

UCSB kicks off this year’s Critical Issues in America program with a symposium that looks back at – and forward from – the history of the grassroots War on Poverty […]

AbstractIn this talk I will present my current project, which explores the practices and politics of large-scale data collection in the environmental sciences during the Cold War. One of the […]

AbstractThe nineteenth century developments on the issue of child abandonment and provisions for them reveal significant traits of the political agenda, specifically regarding national identity, citizenship, and demographic politics. In […]

 A panel of UCSB faculty from multiple disciplines will discuss the UCSB Reads selection, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America. Panelists are Peter S. Alagona (History) Karen Lunsford […]

Abstract: In British-ruled Palestine, Palestinian elites and British colonial officials attempted to define and regulate basic needs with varying consequences for economic thought and practices. In the 1930s, against the […]

AbstractWith one of the latest turns in historiography, it seems that documents as quintessentially national as the American Declaration of Independence can have a global history. This is indeed an […]