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Victory Gardens: Join the Garden Revolution!

With interest in home gardens at the highest it has been in decades (even the White House has one), this event will take us back to another time when national interest was focused on household agriculture—the Victory Gardens of World War II. Our own Rose Hayden-Smith will talk about current national policy and models and […]

Zhivago’s Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia

Drawn from Prof. Vladislav Zubok's new book of the same title (Harvard University Press, 2009), this talk examines one of the least-chronicled aspects of post-World War II European intellectual and cultural history: the the story of the Russian intelligentsia after Stalin. In pursuing the dream of a civil, democratic, socialist society, Russian intellectuals, writers, and […]

“From Watts to Dakar: A View of African American Culture in Los Angeles and Beyond”

The Center for Black Studies Research invites you to the eighth annual Shirley Kennedy Memorial Lecture WHO: Jayne Cortez, award-winning poet, musical performer, filmmaker, and social activist WHAT: "From Watts to Dakar: A View of African American Culture in Los Angeles and Beyond" WHEN: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 4:00 p.m. WHERE: UCSB MultiCultural Center Theater […]

Spring Insight Open House for prospective freshmen and transfers

On Saturday, April 10, 2010, the History Department's Table at the Academic Fair will offer friendly advice and information about the History major at UCSB. Why study history at UCSB instead of at another UC campus? Besides the obvious advantages of our climate and location, UCSB's History program offers a broad array of courses from […]