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2014-2015 New Majors Meeting

Please join faculty members from the Department of History for a New Majors MeetingTuesday September 30th from 1-2pm in HSSB 4020 This a great opportunity for all new majors to meet members of the History faculty, the Department Chair, and Faculty Advisors

A Garden History

Presented by Goleta Valley Historical Society and co-hosted by Fairview Gardens History Education Center at Rancho La Patera & Stow House (click for map) With interest in home hardens at the highest it's been in decade, this lecture will take us back to another time when national interest was focused on household agriculture -- the […]

Winter 2015 Scheduling Meeting for Majors

All HISTORY Majors and Minors are encouraged to attend the Winter 2015 Scheduling Meeting Tuesday October 21st 3:30-4:30 in HSSB 4020 Come learn about new classes, course descriptions, and courses that fulfill GEs! All first year and transfer students are strongly encouraged to attend.

“Modernist Worlds at War: Wells, Welles, Spielberg, and Anglo-American Paranoia”

Jed Esty is the author of Unseasonable Youth: Modernism,Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development (Oxford 2012) and A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England (Princeton 2004), and is currently at work on a new project entitled Ages of Innocence: Culture and Literature from Pax Britannica to the American Century. Jed Esty will be […]

Single Puritan Girls in Tudor England

It was reportedly H.L. Mencken who defined a Puritan as a person who was “haunted by the fear that someone, somewhere might be happy.” But if the 17th century Puritan Simonds D’Ewes was any example, Shakespeare might have been closer to the truth in his comedy about The Merry Wives of Windsor. UCSB History Prof. […]

IHC Open House: Annual Theme “Anthropocene”

IHC Public Events Series for 2014-15: The Anthropocene: Views from the Humanities The Anthropocene, a newly-coined geologic term, designates the age during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment. While subject to the forces of nature, the human species is itself a force that acts upon the natural world. […]

The History and Causes of the Syrian Uprisings

Dr. Bassam Haddad will be addressing the causes behind the Syrian uprisings and the various factors that led to the twists and turns that still engulf Syria, and, of late, beyond. Bassam Haddad is Director of the Middle East Studies Program and teaches in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, […]