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 […]

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” […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Inaugural gathering of the UCSB History Department's "Empires, Borderlands and Legacies" cluster.Space is limited, but guests are welcome. hm 1/6/15