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Sheila Lodge, “Santa Barbara: An UNcommonplace American Town”

Zoom CA

UCSB History Associates has partnered with the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation to present a public lecture by former mayor Sheila Lodge on the topic of Santa Barbara history.  Lodge will discuss her book Santa Barbara: An UNcommonplace American Town about how Santa Barbara became the community that it is through planning. She will describe […]

Free

Colin Gordon, “Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs”

HSSB 4041

As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy's "The Political Economy of Racial Inequality" Fall Quarter speaker series, Colin Gordon (History, University of Iowa) will present "Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs." Gordon is an historian of US public policy, political economy, and urban […]