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 […]
Friday is last day of Summer Session B. hm 7/15/13
Instruction begins on Thursday; last day of Fall classes on Friday December 6, 2013. hm 7/15/13
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.
Speakers include Marcos Vargas, executive director of CAUSE and Manuel Pastor of USC's Program for Environmental and Regional Equity.
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 […]
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 […]
A massive fence, more than two metres high, stretching over a thousand kilometres from East to West effectively separates the southwest African region into two parts. The fence, generally known as the Red Line, is a persistent legacy of South Africa’s colonial occupation of Namibia. Its construction in the 1960s marked the end of a […]
Patrick Ettinger, Professor of History and Director of the Capital Campus Public History Program at CSU Sacramento, will speak about the history of the US-Mexican border in the context of popular constructions of American immigration and current policy debates. Sponsored by the UC Santa Barbara Public History Program. Lunch will be provided. jdm/10/3/13
Professor Swati Chattopadhyay (Department Chair, History of Art & Architecture) and Mira Rai Waits (doctoral candidate) will offer a curators' talk in conjunction with the exhibition "Conjuring India: British Views of the Subcontinent, 1780-1870," on view in the UCSB Library's Special Collections (third floor) through December 15, 2013. "Conjuring India" explores the divergent perspectives of […]