The documentary film "Massacre at Nueva Linda" documents the 2004 massacre of a community protesting in Guatemala. Over two hundred families were violently evicted by over 1,000 police and armed […]

Professor Singh teaches history at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the author of Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy; When This Time is […]

UCSB History Associates Presents a special event for All-Gaucho Reunion Weekend. Professor Gabriela Soto Laveaga will talk about the wild Mexican yam called barbasco that transformed modern pharmaceuticals, and tell […]

The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games are an historic opportunity for China to show the world it has theconfidence to make progress in ensuring basic human rights for its 1.3 billion […]

RESCHEDULED to FallIn her latest book, The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story, bestselling author Diane Ackerman recounts a true tale--as powerful as Schindler's List--in which the keepers of the Warsaw […]

Directed by Marc Rothemund, 2005, 120 mins.2005 Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, "Sophie Scholl - The Final Days." is the true story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi […]

McCartin is the author of Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-21 (1997) . He is now working on a […]

The 2008 Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference will be held on Saturday, May 3rd from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the UCSB Marine Sciences Institute Auditorium. The conference theme […]

Professor Andy Kirk is the author of Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism (2007). His talk will explore how today’s tremendous interest in sustainability and green technologies […]

UCSB’s Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS), in conjunction with the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, encourages you to attend its last lecture of the […]