Kati Marton, award-winning former NPR and ABC News correspondent andbestselling author, discusses her critically-acclaimed book,  The Great Escape: Nine Jews who Fled Hitler and Changed the World. As the New […]

In 1910, the Vote (the newspaper of the Women’s Freedom League) launched a photography competition inviting their suffragette readers to send in photographs of themselves engaged in domestic labour. The […]

In spite of the frequent coverage in the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Publishers Weekly, Inside Higher Ed, and on listservs, websites, scholarly journal articles and beyond, the […]

Join us for an Open House! Help us thank the sponsors of our project to conserve the 21 paintings of California Missions by Edwin Deakin with this exhibit and reception.  […]

The Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP is happy to announce our Fall 2014 workshop and symposium, hosted and co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Program at UC Santa Barbara.Space is limited, please register now […]

In this talk, I consider American expansion in Mexican California,a region seen as an important gateway to the vast Pacific beyond its shores. The encroachment on Spanish and later Mexican […]

A Special Centennial EventCo-Sponsored by the UCSB Affiliates, the UCSB Department of History & Center for Cold War Studies On Armistice Day, a panel of UCSB faculty will commemorate the […]

Hello Fellow Historians (and those simply interested in History), Please join the UCSB History Club and Honor Society (Phi AlphaTheta) this upcoming Wednesday (November 12) for our third general meeting […]

This talk inaugurates a conference on “Labor and Empire” that continues through November 15. Chibber is the author of Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital (2013). Conference participants include […]

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 […]