The UCSB History Associates invite you to a docent-led tour of the Bisno Schall Gallery in the tower of the Santa Barbara County Courthouse. From 1929 until 2011 the magnificent Seth Thomas masterpiece that moves the hands on the tower clock was out of sight. Dr. David Bisno and the late Dick Schall funded a […]
Professor Michele Ronnick of Wayne State University will give a lecture as part of the new exhibit, "14 Black Classicists," at the Art, Design, and Architecture Museum. The talk describes the work of African-American classical scholars who taught Greek and Latin at the college or university level following the Civil War. These scholars made pathbreaking achievements, […]
The Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group welcomes Prof. Eric Rebillard of Cornell University's Departments of History and Classics. The title of his talk is "Res gestas martyrum digerere: North African Hagiography until the Time of Augustine." He is the author of Christians and Their Many Identities in Late Antiquity (Cornell, 2012).
Salim Yaqub will be giving a talk on his new book, Imperfect Strangers: Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East Relations in the 1970s, which was published by Cornell University Press in September 2016. In this book Yaqub argues that the 1970s were a pivotal decade in U.S.-Arab relations—a time when Americans and Arabs became an inescapable presence […]
Marshall Steinbaum, who holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago, is Senior Economist and Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. He has authored numerous papers on job mobility, economic inequality, student debt, entrepreneurship and the corporate economy.
Sklansky is the author of The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920 (2002) and the forthcoming Sovereign of the Market: The Money Question in Early America. A copy of his paper, “"The Fund of Trust: Monetary Reform and the Ethic of Investment in the Gilded Age" can be found here: Sklansky
Three faculty of the UCSB History Department will provide historical perspectives on immigration in the U.S.: Giuliana Perrone, "The History of Exclusion in American Law" Nelson Lichtenstein, "Immigrants Built the American Left and They Will Do It Again" Paul Spickard, "Immigration in a Time of Hate" Feb. 8 Poster
College and university History departments (once again?) say they're in crisis: nationwide, our numbers of majors have shrunk dramatically over the past decade, not to mention the "job crisis" of the past 45 years that has outlived the expansion of the profession from 1945-1970 nearly twice over. What's an academic historian to do about this? […]
Join us for a talk by Prof. Ann Little who will be speaking about her new book, The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands. Esther Wheelwright (1696-1780) embodies the imperial conquest of North America like no other eighteenth-century figure, yet she has been largely written out of the story […]
The Commerce, Commodities and Material Culture Research Cluster will be hosting its first paper workshop this year to discuss Nicole De Silva's paper "Fashioning Chinese America Cultural Citizenship and the Transpacific Boycott of Japanese Silk Stockings, 1937-1940." The paper positions the Japanese silk stocking boycott of 1937-1941 as a staging ground that fostered the development […]
