• History Associates Talk | States of Dis/armament | Mhoze Chikowero

    HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    States of Dis/armament: Reading Statemaking in Africa’s Recent History When: WEDNESDAY, NOV 9, 2022 at 4:00 PM Where: Miller McCune Conference Room, HSSB, UC Santa Barbara Free and open to the public. Please RSVP to historyassociates@ia.ucsb.edu History Associates Members can request a complimentary parking permit for this event! What is a state? What is statemaking? What […]

  • The Department of History Annual Awards Ceremony

    HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    The Department of History is hosting their annual Awards Ceremony, this Wednesday, June 1, from 4 - 6pm to celebrate the wonderful achievements of our students!    The event will begin in the McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020), with a reception on the HSSB 2nd Floor Terrace. Light refreshments will be served.    Click here […]

  • Conference May 20-21: “Work, Capitalism, and Democracy: Past, Present, and Future”

    HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    The Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy hosts a conference, May 20 and 21, 2022 entitled: "Work, Capitalism, and Democracy: Past, Present, and Future." It will be held in the McCune Room, HSSB 6020. Many former students and contemporary colleagues of Nelson Lichtenstein will deliver papers on a wide variety of topics […]

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  • IHC Regeneration Talk by Scott Ellsworth: The Tulsa Race Massacre: Causes, Cover Up, and the Fight for the Past

    HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    The 1921 Tulsa race massacre was the worst single incident of racial violence in American history. But for decades its very existence was denied. Official records went missing, incriminating articles were torn out of bound volumes of old newspapers, and researchers even had their lives threatened. Award-winning author and historian Scott Ellsworth, author of The […]

  • History Faculty John W. I. Lee on IHC’s Humanities Decanted: on his new book The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert

    HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center is hosting a dialogue between John W. I. Lee (History) and Krzysztof Janowicz (Geography) about Lee’s new book, The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert. Audience Q&A will follow. The First Black Archaeologist reveals the untold story of a pioneering African American classical scholar, teacher, community leader, and […]

  • Panel Discussion, “Impeachment in Historical Perspective”

    HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    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 […]

  • Documentary film screening: “McCarthy”

    HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    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 […]

  • Susan Lederer, “‘Send My Body to the Medical College’: Alternative Afterlives in Turn of the Century America”

    HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Dr. Susan Lederer, Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Madison will be giving a talk on Thursday, January 9 at 5:30 pm entitled "'Send My Body to the Medical College': Alternative Afterlives in Turn of the Century America." In 1876 American and English newspapers reported the extraordinary will made by an American […]

  • Einstein’s War: How World War I Made Relativity (Matt Stanley, NYU)

    HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Join us for the next Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture...13 November 2019 at 4PM  About the talk: Einstein’s ascent to worldwide celebrity was, in large part, not his own doing. The 1919 confirmation of the German Einstein’s theory of general relativity by British astronomers soon after the end of the First World War made him an […]

  • Steve Zipperstein, “The Impeachment Wars: What Lies Ahead”

    HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    The Trump impeachment saga has gained startling momentum in recent days. As the proceedings accelerate, fascinating legal and policy questions arise. Can the president pardon people who have committed crimes at his behest? Can he pardon himself? Does impeachment require proof of a federal crime? Is the Senate required to hold an actual trial? Can nonfederal legal authorities—like the […]