Ever since Henry Dana wrote about Santa Barbara in Two Years Before the Mast, authors have been drawn to Santa Barbara. The distinguished writers on our panel will discuss the […]

The UCSB History Associates and the Department of History will hold the annual awards ceremony and reception on Wednesday, June 4, starting at 4:00 p.m. The event will be held […]

Graduating History Majors and their families are cordially invited to attend a reception on commencement Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. in HSSB 4020. The commencement ceremony will begin […]

Summer Session A runs from June 23 to August 1.Summer Session B runs from August 4 to September 12. For History courses taught during Sessions A and B, see our […]

All new History Department Teaching Assistants must attend both morning and afternoon sessions of the Initial Training Meeting. All returning History TAs must attend the afternoon session. For more information […]

Fall instruction begins on Thursday, September 25, 2008.Note that some History syllabi are available for downloading from the History website Courses page prior to the start of the quarter. Also, […]

Lichtenstein is the author of Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (1995). His current research examines the interplay of the […]

Fletcher, a longtime labor and international activist, is executive editor of Black Commentator and founder of the Center for Labor Renewal. Gapasin is a Central Labor Council President and former […]

Jason Kelly is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University of Indiana. Since its existence first became public knowledge in the 1760s, politicians, critics, and historians alike have represented […]

This lecture examines evidence from an ancient Roman infant cemetery recently discovered at Lugnano in Teverina (Umbria). The cemetery contained forty-eight bodies. DNA testing techniques recently developed by Robert Sallares […]