The Center for Cold war Studies and International History (CCWS) will kick off the new year by showing the classic 1963 film "Lady Bug, Lady Bug," about the impact of […]

Joseph Hodge is Professor of History at West Virginia University, and author of Triumph of the Expert: Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism (2007). Sponsored by […]

For more information on this lecture, click here or contact Prof. Helen Morales in the UCSB Department of Classics. Sponsored by the UCSB Argyropoulos Endowment in Hellenic Studies. jwil 16.viii.2013

Dr. Maskiell is an expert on family and household relationships within slavery as well as on slave networks in both Dutch and English colonial Atlantic America. The author of "Elite […]

This new film is located at the intersection of labor history and music history - about union drivers and the invention of honkhorn music in Accra, Ghana. Steven Feld is […]

Beer has become a familiar presence in American life, but it was once an oft-despised commodity,banned as part of Prohibition. How did this remarkable transformation from banned commodity to emblem […]

Nathan Connolly is Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, and author of By Eminent Domain: Race and Capital in the Building of An American South Florida (2011). Sponsored by […]

On October 25 at 2PM, Prof. Christine Borgman from UCLA will be speaking about how the sharing of research data affects scientific practice. Her talk is the Social Sciences and […]

Freedom Now! showcases photographs rarely seen in the mainstream media,which depict the power wielded by black men, women and children in remaking U.S. society through their activism. This exhibition has […]

Thomas Trezise will facilitate a conversation about his new book, Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony. Trezise will focus the discussion on chapter 1 of his book […]