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Barbara Walker, “Fathers and Sons and the Origins of Cold War ‘Area Studies’ in the United States”

HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Barbara Walker is Professor of Russian history at the University of Nevada, Reno. She has published on a broad range of historical topics in the area of Russian and Soviet intellectual life and its economic foundations, social organization and culture. More recently, she has branched out to explore the nature of expertise, specifically “information expertise,” […]

Brad Bouley, “To Catch a Witch: Gender, Politics, and Persecution in the European Past”

McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

As a special Halloween event, Professor Brad Bouley will present "To Catch a Witch: Gender, Politics, and Persecution in the European Past." Join us at noon on October 31 in the McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) for knowledge, pizza, and drinks. Undergraduates are especially welcome.

Event Series History Club Weekly Meetings

History Club Weekly Meetings

HSSB 4020

UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions. 

Tasting History – A Parents and Family Weekend Event!

HSSB 6020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Please join the History Department this Friday, November 1st for our annual Parents and Family Weekend event! This year, the history department will be doing something a little different... Tasting History Come hear about the ways in which historians at UCSB study and teach about the history of food and drinks around the world. Sample historical recipes, browse through old cookbooks and advertisements, and […]

UCSB History Associates present: What Was “Royalty” in Early Modern England

Karpeles Manuscript Library 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry in June 2016 stimulated a new round of interest in and curiosity about the concept of “royalness.” Visitors to the Karpeles Library asked such questions as “will Meghan Markle ever be considered a queen,” “who gives titles of nobility” (princes, princesses, dukes, earls, etc.), and “how did […]

Event Series History Club Weekly Meetings

History Club Weekly Meetings

HSSB 4020

UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions. 

Eric Rauchway, “A New Deal Voting Rights Case: A Strategy of the Roosevelt Justice Department, 1939-1941”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy's "The Political Economy of Racial Inequality" Fall Quarter speaker series, Eric Rauchway (History, University of California Davis) will present "A New Deal Voting Rights Case: A Strategy of the Roosevelt Justice Department, 1939-1941." Rauchway is the author of Murdering McKinley: The Making […]

Einstein’s War: How World War I Made Relativity (Matt Stanley, NYU)

HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Join us for the next Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture...13 November 2019 at 4PM  About the talk: Einstein’s ascent to worldwide celebrity was, in large part, not his own doing. The 1919 confirmation of the German Einstein’s theory of general relativity by British astronomers soon after the end of the First World War made him an […]

Event Series History Club Weekly Meetings

History Club Weekly Meetings

HSSB 4020

UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions. 

Event Series History Club Weekly Meetings

History Club Weekly Meetings

HSSB 4020

UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions. 

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