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 […]

Historian Jane Maienschein of Arizona State University is a former Congressional Fellow and Senior Science Advisor. She debunks the common idea that stem cell science began in 1998 and maintains […]

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 […]

Professor Patrick McCray will give a public lecture about the role of amateur scientists and the opening of the Space Age. The talk will be at the Kavli Institute for […]

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 […]

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, […]

Meg Jacobs is the author of the prize-winning Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (2005); Julian Zelizer's most recent book is On Capital Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress […]

UCSB History Professor Paul Spickard will read from and sign copies of his new book, which revolutionizes our understanding of the place and meaning of immigration in US history.

Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman archaeological research in Greece and Turkey has traditionally been overwhelmingly weighted toward the excavation of monumental structures in urban centers. This work has in turn been […]

Professor Mike Osborne lectures on the life, ideas and legacy of Charles Darwin. Darwin is almost 200 years old and his most popular work, The Origin of Species of 1859, […]