In addition to the public lecture at the Granada Theater, Jon Meacham will hold a small group discussion, open to all--faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates. Students especially encouraged to attend. A Pulitzer Prize winner, Meacham has written on Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, George W. H. Bush, and more recently, music as a window into American […]
Join the Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster for a paper workshop on Jarett Henderson's “The 'Turton Job' and the Sexual Politics of the Durham Administration in Britain and British North America.” The event will take place in HSSB 4065 on Thursday, January 30 at 3:30. To obtain the paper in advance, email Jarett Henderson at […]
UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions.
McCarthy 2Seventy years ago this February, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin launched his destructive anticommunist rampage. Addressing the Women's Republican Club in Wheeling, WVA, McCarthy charged that 205—or was it 57?—known communists were working for the U.S. State Department, enjoying the protection of an indifferent or even a disloyal Truman administration. McCarthy went on […]
Join us as we talk about how we—as historians and historians in training—approach our work as “scholar-activists” within the context of the academy. While not all of us identify as "scholar-activists," we work with social justice and equity in mind. Themes Methodology: What does that look like? How do we describe it and/or think about […]
UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions.
As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy‘s Winter Quarter speaker series, Jennifer Burns (History, Stanford University) will present "The Last Conservative: The Life of Milton Friedman." Professor Burns is the author of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (2009), and is now at work on […]
Come hear Anna Rudolph's presentation on Queen Radegund (520AD – 587AD) – a royal sainted lady of Thuringia. Radegund was a princess and a war captive who became the unwilling queen of the Frankish Kingdom and one of the most beloved Saints of France. Radegund, an extreme ascetic, was widely believed to have the gift […]
On Tuesday, February 11, from 4 to 5:30 pm in HSSB 6020 (McCune Center), the Center for Cold War Studies and International History and the Walter H. Capps Center will host a panel discussion titled, "Impeachment in Historical Perspective." Three UCSB historians will speak on the following topics: Giuliana Perrone on the Impeachment and Senate Trial of Andrew Johnson Laura Kalman on […]
UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions.
On February 14 Ronny Regev (History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) presents, "'We Want No More Economic Islands': The Mobilization of the Black Consumer Market in the Postwar US." WWII ushered in an era of economic growth in the United States, which enshrined consumption as an integral part of liberal citizenship. African Americans were often excluded […]
The Public History program presents a talk by Vic Geraci about his new book, Wine by Design: Santa Barbara’s Quest for Terroir (Nevada, 2020). A graduate of UCSB's program in Public Historical Studies, Geraci taught public history at Central Connecticut State University and served as historian of food and wine at the Regional Oral History […]
Join the Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster for a paper workshop on Kristen Thomas-McGill's "'Even His Lungs Were Affected': Aubrey Beardsley, Earnestness, and the Artistic Politics of Interiority." The event will take place in HSSB 4065 on Thursday, February 20 at 3:30. To obtain the paper in advance, email Jarett Henderson at jhenderson@history.ucsb.edu.
UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions.
As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy‘s Winter Quarter speaker series, Grace Peña Delgado (History, UC Santa Cruz) will present "Mexico's New Slavery: A Critique of Neo-Abolitionism to Combat Human Trafficking." Delgado is the author of Making the Chinese American: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (2012) […]
Join Harvard historian and New Yorker columnist Jill Lepore for informal conversation about her recent work on democracy and national identity. Open to all, undergraduates especially encouraged to attend.
As part of the Public History speaker series, Tory Swim Inloes (UCSB alumna), will discuss her work as a freelance public historian, including work in oral history. She has also worked as curator the the Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site in Long Beach. Learn about the opportunities available for independent public historians as consultants for […]
UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions.
On February 28, Dr. Brandon Seto, Senior Floor Consultant to California State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (and a 2010 UCSB history PhD), will give a talk entitled "Doctorates Without Borders: Careers in Government, Advocacy, and Communication for PhDs," about employment opportunities outside academia available to holders of PhDs. The talk, which is sponsored by UCSB's […]
Aggressive criminal prosecution of unwed mothers who killed their newborns in early modern Europe (1550-1750) has led historians to assume that Europe was less tolerant of illegitimacy and infanticide than other pre-modern societies, including China and Japan. New research throws this assumption into question. In early modern Geneva, authorities often turned a blind eye to […]