The UCSB History Associates cordially invite you to attend a panel discussion of Pope Benedict XVI's surprise decision to retire at the end of this month. The event will be […]

Whenever we speak of the Silk Road, the mind’s eye conjures up a single merchant traveling on a camel laden with goods, most likely on his way to Rome. The […]

The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization had appeared to be the natural outcome […]

At 4PM on April 5, Prof. Zorina Kahn (Bowdoin College) will discuss a paper entitled "Of Time and Space: Technological Spillovers among Patents and Unpatented Innovation in early U.S. Industrialization." […]

A specialist on the later Roman Empire and its transformation into a Christian state,Professor Elm’s research bridges intellectual and social history and focuses on interactions between Christians and “pagans” in […]

Holocaust Remembrance Week Inaugural Event, admission free Orchestra of Exiles recounts the dramatic story of Bronislaw Huberman, the celebrated Polish violinist who rescued some of the world's greatest musicians from […]

Technologies played a dramatic role in birthing the modern industrial world, so it is hardly surprising that classic and widely familiar histories of technology trace narratives of triumphant Western progress, […]

In this talk, Fredrik Logevall discusses his highly acclaimed new book, EMBERS OF WAR: THE FALL OF AN EMPIRE AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA'S VIETNAM. Drawing on newly available documents […]

Join us for a talk by Robert C.T. Parker (Wykeham Professor of Ancient History and Fellow of New College, Oxford University) on Friday, April 12th at 2:00 pm in HSSB […]

Before there were coasts there were shores. In this talk, John Gillis explores the emergence of modern coasts, which, beginning in the eighteenth century, displaced older notions of shore. The […]