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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 |
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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
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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? […]
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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 […] |
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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 […] |
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Hail the Maintainers! or - How to Give Up the Innovation Fetish Join us for a talk by Prof. Lee Vinsel, Stevens Institute of Technology - 16 February 2017 in HSSB 4080 at 4PM Our culture is obsessed with innovation. Innovation is thought to be the goal of business, policy-making, philanthropy, education, even play. Yet, […] |
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David Moss is the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) unit. He earned his B.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from Yale. A founder of the Tobin Project, Professor Moss is the author of Socializing Security: Progressive-Era Economists and the […] |
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UCSB History Associates invites you to attend the Fourth Annual Van Gelderen Graduate Student Lecture Cheryl Jimemez Frei, a PhD Student in Latin American History, will be giving a lecture related to her work on memory and the built environment in Argentina. A luncheon will follow. To attend the luncheon, please fill out the form […] |
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The Center for Cold War Studies and International History will show Icarus Film's new documentary, "Nasser's Republic: The Making of Modern Egypt," a stirring but unflinching portrayal of Gamal Abdel Nasser and his impact on Egyptian, pan-Arab, and international politics. After the screening of the film, which runs about 80 minutes, Sherene Seikaly, Associate Professor […]
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Long before companies such as Apple and Google learned how to attract and indulge their high tech workforces with espresso bars, climbing walls, flextime, and other perks, laboratories likeRAND in Santa Monica, Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, and Nortronics in Palos Verdes perfected the art of concierge science. These were venues designed to recruit, retain, […] |
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