Of all the figures in the Bible, David arguably stands out as the most perplexing and enigmatic. He was many things: a warrior who subdued Goliath and the Philistines; a king who united a nation; a poet who created beautiful, sensitive verse; a loyal servant of God who proposed the great Temple and founded the […]
At a moment when the population is declining, marriage and birth rates are down, one-third of people live alone while one-fourth are 65 or older, and reports of “lonely death” (of solitary people whose bodies are discovered days, or weeks, after death) are commonplace, the social ecology of existence is undergoing radical change in 21st […]
Please join the UCSB History Club and Phi Alpha Theta this Wednesday (November 19) at 6:00pm in HSSB 4080 for our fourth general meeting (and second to last one) of the quarter! We will be celebrating the holidays with a Thanksgiving-style potluck complete with turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and the works. We also will be […]
You are invited to the Pre-Modern Cluster's second brown bag lunch of this year. It is based on Prof. Plane's newly published book: Dreams and the Invisible World in Colonial New England: Indians, Colonists, and the Seventeenth Century From angels to demonic specters, astonishing visions to devilish terrors, dreams inspired, challenged, and soothed the men […]
Phi Alpha Theta and History Club Meeting HSSB 4080 6pm-8pm
Latinos are already the largest minority group in the United States, and experts estimate that by 2050, one out of three Americans will identify as Latino. Though their population and influence are steadily rising, stereotypes and misconceptions about Latinos remain, from the assumption that they refuse to learn English to questions of just how "American" […]
Classes end on Friday, December 12, 2014; Winter Quarter begins Monday, Jan. 5, 2015. hm 10/4/14
See the calendar at the link below. hm 7/19/15
In 1968 during China’s “Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution,” the cult of CommunistParty Chairman Mao Zedong was at a high. A Pakistani foreign minister presented Mao with a crate of mangoes that he re-gifted to the Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Teams who were occupying the Tsinghua University campus. The gift of mangoes happened to coincide with […]
Inaugural gathering of the UCSB History Department's "Empires, Borderlands and Legacies" cluster.Space is limited, but guests are welcome. hm 1/6/15