Risa Goluboff is a legal historian who argues that the New Deal, the cold War, and the NAACP wing of the civil rights movement redefined the meaning of civil rights, stripping it of much of its labor and economic content at the very moment of its triumph. Sponsored by the Program in Work, Labor, and […]
Lee Hamilton will discuss how America can accomplish its goals in the world while recognizing the limitations of our power. He will provide an overview of Iraq, terrorism, and other key challenges, building on his recent experience co-chairing the Iraq Study Group and the 9/11 Commission. Currently he is President and Director, Woodrow Wilson International […]
Gerardo Aldana is an affiliated faculty member in the Department of History.
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 moral guidance from nature rather than from the more traditional disciplines that focus on ethics and morality. Professor Farber's talk was part of UC Santa […]
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 that stem cell science is actually nearly a century old. History may provide lessons for researchers and the public concerned about the social, political, and […]
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 Birth Control in America, Heroes of Their Own Lives: The History and Politics of Family Violence, and The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, among many other […]
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 Theoretical Physics on campus.
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 30th anniversary of the Santa Barbara Blues Society. Don't miss this special event! Seating is limited. Make reservations now with the UCSB Office of Community […]
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, from farm women to anti-aircraft gunners -- disclosed about their personal experiences in recollections offered decades later. Their reactions -- both during the Third Reich […]
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 and its Consequences, 1948-2000 (2004). They are joint editors of The Democratic Experience: New Directions in American Political History (2003). Sponsored by the Program in […]