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The Curious Encounter of Telstar and STARFISH PRIME, July 1962

This talk is based on Schwoch's book Global TV: New Media and The Cold War which examines the relationship of global television, diplomacy, and new electronic communications media. Beginning with the Allied occupation of Germany in 1946 and ending with the 1969 Apollo moon landing, this book explores major developments in global media, including the […]

A Tale of Two Authors

The public is invited to participate in a dialogue between Maria Segal, survivor of the Holocaust from the Warsaw Ghetto, and Dr. Ursula Mahlendorf, UCSB Professor Emerita and former member of Hitler Youth in Germany. Both authors are active participants in the Portraits of Survival program. Their recently published memoirs bring us two very different […]

How the Irish Made Serra a Saint and Saved the California Missions

Fr. Jack Clark Robinson, O.F.M., a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department, will speak on "How the Irish Made Serra a Saint and Saved the California Missions!" on Thursday, June 11 at the Santa Barbara Mission. Events will start at 5:30 p.m. with a tour of the archive library, followed by the talk at 6:30 […]

Reception for Graduating Seniors

The History department will host a reception for graduating seniors and their families on Sunday, June 14, from 11 a.m. to noon in the History Conference Room, HSSB 4020. The commencement ceremony will begin at 1 p.m. on the Faculty Club Green. Of the 187 students receiving degrees this year, 40 completed their coursework at […]

Launch of New Public History Website

All students, faculty and members of the public at large with an interest in UCSB's public history program, please stop by HSSB 4020 to see Julia Brock & Mira Foster's presentation of the PHS website & join in general end-of-academic year, start-of-summer conviviality. We have one more new Doctor -- Bonnie Harris -- to toast, […]

Exhibition: Ancient China

Noble Tombs at Mawangdui: Art and Life in the Changsha Kingdom, China (3rd Century BCE - 1st Century CE) More than 2,000 years ago, a Chinese marquis and his family began their plans for the afterlife with three lavish tombs in Hunan Province which were excavated in the 1970s. For the first time in the […]