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The Lost Promise of Civil Rights

Risa Goluboff is a legal historian who argues that the New Deal, the cold War, and the NAACP wing of the civil rights movement redefined the meaning of civil rights, […]

Biology and Ethics

Historian Paul Farber of Oregon State University explores whether nature is a guide for human actions and if humans have an evolutionary ethic. Many biologists have been uneasy with seeking […]

Dorothea Lange and Visual Democracy

Linda Gordon is a founder and one of the foremost practitioners of feminist scholarship in the United States. She is the author of Women's Body, Women's Right: The History of […]

The Santa Barbara Blues Society and the Resurgence of Blues

Noted jazz historian Douglas Daniels and the History Department's favorite pianist, Frank Frost, reunite to celebrate the History Associates' 20th anniversary with this special program that will also commemorate the […]

German Women Recall the Third Reich

This illustrated talk will focus on what a wide variety of women who lived during the Third Reich -- from righteous Gentiles to Nazi party members, from countesses to Hausfrauen, […]