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 […]
Los Angeles attorney specializing in recovery of property stolen by the Nazis responsible for the landmark Supreme Court case returning Gustav Klimt paintings–valued at $325 million–to their rightful heir. The […]
In this presentation, I employ urban violence to examine how men constructed, performed, and struggled for their masculine identity. I argue that gender identity, performing masculinity, and the construction of […]