Paul Starr, "America's Peculiar Struggle over Health Care, Then and Now." Starr is co-Founder of The American Prospect, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, author of Remedy […]
"The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights" William P. Jones, History Professor at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, is a leading historian of the […]
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Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB present,in commemoration of Yom Hashoah and as Holocaust Remembrance Week Inaugural Event: The Santa Barbara premiere screening […]
In the early 1960s, young bohemians swayed together under the swirling lights of psychedelic slide shows, surrounded by walls of amplified sound, in dance halls and art galleries from Greenwich […]
For over a century the largest American philanthropies, from the Rockefeller Foundation to the Gates Foundation, have promised no less than to promote the well-being of all mankind. Acting on […]
On Friday, May 2, at 1 p.m. a symposium composed of leading scholars explores the historical connections between the domestic "war" against poverty and the 20th-century development project as led […]
Abigail Washburn is a critically acclaimed singer, composer and banjo player known for her collaborations with the Sparrow Quartet, the Wu Force,and her duet performances with Bela Fleck. Her albums […]
Professor Alex Lubin (Director of the Center for American Studies and Research at the American University of Beirut) on Wednesday May 7th at 4:00pm in the MCC. Professor Lubin will […]
Jeffrey Wasserstrom is the author of four books on China and the editor or co-editor of several more, including most recently Chinese Characters:Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land, […]