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GIVE DAY 2023

Thursday, April 13th, 2023 is UCSB’s annual Give Day, a 36-hour online fundraising event. Last year, with the help of the community, more people donated to the History Department than […]

Book Launch: ENTREPÔT OF REVOLUTIONS by Manuel Covo

HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

We are delighted to announce the launch of Manuel Covo's recently published, prize-winning monograph, Entrepôt of Revolutions: Saint-Domingue, Commercial Sovereignty, and the French-American Alliance, which will take place on Friday, April […]

Public History Book Sale

Announcing an exciting, two-day Public History Book Sale!!   Pre-Sale: Wednesday May 10, 12:00-4:00pm in HSSB 3208 Come for hidden gems and a dusty used-book store vibe. You never know […]

Film Screening for the Haitian Revolution: May 18th | 4pm | HSSB 6020

HSSB 6020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The History Department's Colloquium Committee, in celebration of Haitian Flag's Day, presents a film screening: "Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Defeated Dessalines, the Man who Defeated Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte." Everyone is cordially invited […]

History and Political Economy Colloquium with Prof. Adam Sabra

HSSB 4065 4065 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The colloquium offers a forum for open, substantive discussions on how to approach political economy from a historical perspective; how to grapple with and benefit from the epistemological diversity surrounding […]

Book Launch: Stephan Miescher, A Dam for Africa

HSSB 1174 1174 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

In A Dam for Africa historian Stephan Miescher explores four intersecting narratives that weave together around Akosombo: Ghanaian aspirations about building a hydroelectric dam in the context of decolonization and […]