In Promotion of Professor J. Sears McGee’s new book An Industrious Mind, The Worlds of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (Stanford University Press, 2015).With guest speaker Prof. Chris R. Kyle, Associate Professor of History, Syracuse University. Reception to follow with light refreshments. This is the first biography of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1602–1650), a member of England's Long […]

The UCSB History Department and the Center for Cold War Studies and International History will show Stanley Kubrick's classic World War I film "Paths of Glory" (1957), about the court-martialing of French soldiers who refuse to continue a suicidal assault. In addition to watching the movie, we will hear expert commentary by Prof. Ross Melnick […]