Summer Session B instruction begins
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Fall Quarter instruction begins
See link for details. hm 5/28/10
History, Modernity, and Counterfactuals: Walter Benjamin’s ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’
Historical explanation is the explanation of outcomes in terms of causal antecedents. All too often however the causal account becomes indistinguishable from a vindicatory narrative, the tale of outcomes told […]
Phi Alpha Theta/UCSB History Club First Meeting
Do you love history? Does thinking about Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon or the Siege of Boston give you goose bumps? Come check us out! The club is open to […]
The Social Uses of Hot Springs in Mexico
This paper presents some initial research and reflections on the social use of hot springs in Mexico and California, and suggests that cultures of water at hot springs offer possibilities […]
A Study of Florida’s Earliest Shipwreck
Exploring Tristán de Luna’s Lost Galleon Discovery of a well-preserved early Spanish shipwreck in Pensacola Bay, Florida, has reopened a long forgotten chapter of Latin-American history. Assembled by the Viceroy […]
The Big Blowup: Fire’s American Century
STEPHEN PYNE is the world's foremost historian of fire. A Regents' Professor at Arizona State University, and the author of twenty books on environmental history and the histories of science […]
Rethink UC: Defend Public Education
The historic actions, protests and strikes of last fall and spring showed our state and the nation that students, teachers, staff, and our communities are determined to fight against the […]
Caesar Chavez, the UFW Boycott, and Why the Union Failed to Realize its Potential
Matthew Garcia is Associate Professor of American Civilization, Ethnic Studies and History at Brown University. Part of the History 294: Colloquium in Work, Labor, and Political Economy, 2010-2011 lecture series. […]
UCSB History Associates 2010-2011 Kickoff Event
Say “Lompoc” and most people think of Vandenberg Air Force Base and flower farms, or maybe the prison. But our neighbor to the north has a fascinating history, preserved in […]