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Hacienda de Quimichis and the Bard Family, 1909-1935

Professor Verónica Castillo-Muñoz will be the featured speaker at the Friends of the Bard Mansion Quarterly Dinner on the grounds of the Bard family's historic home and gardens in Port Hueneme. She will share the fruits of her research for her second book, about the people who worked on a 75,000 acre ranch, Hacienda de […]

A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the 1846 Invasion of Mexico

The U.S.· Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back·channel negotiations as it divided the nation and paved the way for the Civil War a generation later. Penn State University Professor Amy Greenberg provides skilled storytelling and rigorous scholarship as she brings this American war to life with memorable characters, plotlines, and legacies. In […]

Fall quarter classes begin

Instruction begins on Thursday; last day of Fall classes on Friday December 6, 2013. hm 7/15/13

Fear Itself: the New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

The author of ten books, Ira Katznelson is the Ruggles Professor of History and Political Science at Columbia University, former president of the American Political Science Association, and current president of the Social Science Research Council. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.

The Style is the – Empire. Caesar’s Writing Reevaluated

Caesar's style has been admired for its stringency and simplicity–and to the detriment of a fuller appreciation of its complexities. His classic texts are worth a second glance. They reveal not only far greater debts to the administrative language of the Roman Empire than previously assumed (hence the title) but also a good number of […]

Beer: From Prohibition to America’s Emblem of the Good Life?

UC Santa Barbara Arts and Humanities "Nature and Culture" Series at the Wine Cask Join UC Santa Barbara historian Lisa Jacobson for a spectacular Wine Cask artisan dinner and talk at the inaugural UCSB public humanities Culture and Nature Series event. For more information about the series, please click here. Thursday, October 10, 2013 6:00 […]