Tiffany Willoughby-Herard (African American Studies, UC Irvine) The presentation discusses a key historiographical intervention about so-called "cheap labor" in WASTE OF A WHITE SKIN: THE CARNEGIE CORPORATION AND THE RACIAL […]
Maurice Isserman writes pathbreaking books on the American left - and on mountaineering. In the latter category are Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire […]
Professors Alice O'Connor (History), Hahrie Han (Political Science), and National People's Action Director Ryan Greenwood will lead a discussion of "Activism and Social Change" as part of the Library's UCSB […]
Event Description: The promotion of modern Hebrew as a spoken vernacular is often viewed as a central accomplishment of the Zionist movement in Palestine before Israeli statehood. But by viewing […]
Professor Desmond King is the author Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of Diverse Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2002) and co-author (with Lawrence Jacobs) of Fed Power: The Federal […]
TALK: Lorena Rizzo (University of Bielefeld & Harvard University) Probing “Presence” – Photography and Policing in Colonial South Africa The presentation starts from research conducted in the Western Cape Archives […]
On Tuesday, February 23, 2016, Chaucer Books in Santa Barbara will be hosted a book launch/signing for James F. Brooks' new monograph, Mesa of Sorrows: A History of the Awat'ovi […]
On February 28, the UCSB History Associates present the 3rd annual Van Gelderen Lecture shocasing graduate student Holly Roose who will talk about her doctoral dissertation: "Once you go Black you […]
Samir Sonti is completing a dissertation on the politics of inflation in the United States from the 1930s to the 1980s.