A Black Swan Event is by definition a highly improbable happening with a massive impact. No one questions the impact of rise of Islam, but just how improbable was it? Two of […]
Brian Lewis, Professor of History at McGill University, Montreal will be giving a lecture related to his recently published book Wolfenden's Witnesses: Homosexuality in Postwar Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. In […]
The Senior Honors Seminar is a two-quarter seminar for majors in History, History of Public Policy, and Medieval Studies to be held in fall 2016 and winter 2017. The informational […]
Keynote talk: “Men in Women's Monasteries: Nuns' Priests in the Central Middle Ages” by Fiona Griffiths, Professor of History at Stanford University The Medieval Studies Program would like to invite […]
Modern Americans love thinking that the Hopi people of the Southwest represent the epitome of peacefulness. But in the year 1700, in the populous village of Awat’ovi, Hopi slaughtered Hopi […]
In the mid-1960s, NASA began building space technologies for the war in Vietnam. Students from the New Left vigorously protested against the space agency, which responded in the early 1970s by […]
Sherene Seikaly Event Description: This talk explores British economic policy in the Middle East in general and Palestine specifically during WWII. Scholarly depictions have focused on the importance of measuring […]
Elizabeth Cobbs and James Shelley grant us a sneak preview of their forthcoming PBS documentary film, "American Umpire," based on Prof. Cobbs's acclaimed history book of the same name. The […]
UCSB History Department's Annual Senior Honors Seminar Colloquium Friday, May 20th 4020 HSSB 8:30 AM Coffee and pastries 9:00 AM Welcome - Professor Sharon Farmer, Chair of the History Department […]
Please join the History Department for its 6th annual Islamic Studies Graduate Student Conference, beginning on May 20th and concluding on the 22nd in HSSB's McCune Conference Room. For additional […]