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SUMMARY:“To Trust is Good\, But Not to Trust is Better”: The Italian Paradox
DESCRIPTION:How did the citizens of Italian communes learn to trust one another\, trust one another enough to build the fundamental institutions of a civil society in which citizens enjoyed participatory politics\, elected officials to administer the laws\, and adjudicated disputes according to legal statutes? The answer to this question points to a peculiar paradox of Italian history in which vital\, successful communities cohabited with pervasive violence manifest most infamously in feuding and vendetta. Trust and mistrust lived in the same house\, on the same street\, within the same city walls. This lecture argues that what made Medieval and Renaissance Italy so culturally creative were the many new ways people found to build trust\, especially through written documents.  It was literacy that made the trust necessary for modern life possible. \nIf you have any questions\, please contact: english@history.ucsb.edu \nSponsored by the Medieval Studies Program. \nhm 2/25/15
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SUMMARY:Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of  the Underground Railroad
DESCRIPTION:“Gateway to Freedom liberates the history of the underground railroad from the twin plagues of mythology and cynicism. For anyone who still wonders what was at stake in the Civil War\, there is no better place to begin than Gateway to Freedom.”—James Oakes\, author of Freedom National\, winner of the Lincoln Prize \nA deeply entrenched institution\, slavery lived on legally and commercially even in the northern states that had abolished it after the American Revolution. Networks of antislavery resistance\, centered on New York City\, became known as the underground railroad. Forced to operate in secrecy by hostile laws\, courts\, and politicians\, the city’s underground-railroad agents helped more than 3\,000 fugitive slaves reach freedom between 1830 and 1860. Until now\, their stories have remained largely unknown\, their significance little understood. Building on fresh evidence—including a detailed record of slave escapes secretly kept by Sydney Howard Gay\, one of the key organizers in New York—Eric Foner elevates the underground railroad from folklore to sweeping history. \nEric Foner\, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University\, specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction\, slavery\, and 19th-century U.S. history. In 2011\, his work The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize in History\, the Bancroft Prize\, and the Lincoln Prize. The author or editor of 24 books\, he has also been the curator of several museum exhibitions\, including the prize-winning\, “A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln\,” at the Chicago Historical Society. \nCopies of his new book Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of  the Underground Railroad will be available  following the lecture for purchase and signing. \nPresented by UCSB Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics\, Religion\, and Public Life and Department of History. This event is cosponsored by UCSB Center for Black Studies Research\, Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy\, Department of Black Studies\, Global & International Studies Program\, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, and UC Center for New Racial Studies. \nhm 2/8/15\, 2/22
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/gateway-to-freedom-the-hidden-history-of-the-underground-railroad/
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SUMMARY:Burying "Nie Zheng’s Bones": The Making of Martyrs in 1911 China
DESCRIPTION:Ying HuAssociate Professor\, East Asian Languages & Literature\nUniversity of California\, Irvine \nAbout the Talk:\nThis talk examines two cases of martyr-making\, that of Qiu Jin (1875-1907)\, an anti-Qing revolutionary and beheaded for her involvement in armed uprising\, and that of Liangbi (1877-1912)\, Manchu loyalist\, commander of the Qing Palace Guard\, whose assassination in January 1912 sealed the fate of the Empire. As canonization typically involves immediate associates\, local elites and the state\, the process\, whether successful or not\, gives us a privileged window for viewing different conceptions of virtue and community as well as divergent ways of writing history.\n\nOrganized and sponsored by the East Asia Center\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies.\nCo-sponsored by the Department of History & the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. \naj 2/26/15
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