UCSB History Associates present: What Was "Royalty" in Early Modern England
2019-11-02 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Karpeles Manuscript Library, 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
The wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry in June 2016 stimulated a new round of interest in and curiosity about the concept of “royalness.” Visitors to the Karpeles Library asked such questions as “will Meghan Markle ever be considered a queen,” “who gives titles of nobility” (princes, princesses, dukes, earls, etc.), and “how did royals get there?” This talk will compare the powers and position of Queen Elizabeth I, her Tudor predecessors, and some of her Stuart successors. Elizabeth II, the current queen, has very little political power, but in medieval and early modern Europe, monarchs had extensive prerogatives. That said, their power was by no means as absolute and complete as many people now think. They were believed to rule by “divine right,” a phrase which is often taken to mean they could do utter anything they wanted to do. Yet in fact, their powers were in practice limited in a variety of ways that require careful analysis if we are to understand the nature of royalty in a period when monarchical governments controlled all of Europe (except in the Republic of Venice and the Dutch Republic). Our speaker is Sears McGee, Professor Emeritus of History. He retired in 2018 after 46 years of teaching at UCSB, including 6 years as department chair. His courses explored the history of Europe (with an emphasis on England) from the High Middle Ages to the French Revolution. His books include a co-authored work, The West Transformed: a History of Western Civilization (Harcourt, 2000) and ‘An Industrious Mind’: the Worlds of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (Stanford University Press, 2015).

History Club Weekly Meetings
2019-11-07 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-11-14 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-11-21 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-11-28 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-12-05 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-12-12 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-12-19 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-12-26 19:00 - 21:00 and 6 more dates | HSSB 4020
UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions.

Eric Rauchway, "A New Deal Voting Rights Case: A Strategy of the Roosevelt Justice Department, 1939-1941"
2019-11-08 13:00 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy‘s “The Political Economy of Racial Inequality” Fall Quarter speaker series, Eric Rauchway (History, University of California Davis) will present “A New Deal Voting Rights Case: A Strategy of the Roosevelt Justice Department, 1939-1941.” Rauchway is the author of Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America (2003), The Money Makers: How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace (2015), and Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash over the New Deal (2018).

Einstein’s War: How World War I Made Relativity (Matt Stanley, NYU)
2019-11-13 16:00 - 17:30 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Join us for the next Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture…13 November 2019 at 4PM
About the talk: Einstein’s ascent to worldwide celebrity was, in large part, not his own doing. The 1919 confirmation of the German Einstein’s theory of general relativity by British astronomers soon after the end of the First World War made him an emblem of how science could rise above nationalism and petty patriotism. But in fact international science – and relativity with it – was nearly shattered by the war. It was only the dedicated efforts of pacifist scientists, chiefly A.S. Eddington, that pulled both Einstein and his theory from behind the trenches and onto the front pages of newspapers
around the globe.

About the Speaker: Matthew Stanley teaches and researches the history and philosophy of science. He holds degrees in astronomy, religion, physics, and the history of science and is interested in the connections between science and the wider culture. He is the author of Einstein’s War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I (Dutton, 2019), the story of how pacifism and friendship led to scientific revolution. He has also written Practical Mystic: Religion, Science, and A. S. Eddington (Chicago 2007) and Huxley’s Church and Maxwell’s Demon (Chicago 2014), which explore the complex relationships between science and religion in history.
A flyer describing the talk can be found here…

David Stein, "Containing Keynesianism in an Age of Civil Rights: Jim Crow Monetary Policy and the Struggle for Guaranteed Jobs, 1956-1979"
2019-11-22 13:00 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy‘s “The Political Economy of Racial Inequality” Fall Quarter speaker series, David Stein (African American Studies, University of California Los Angeles) will present “Containing Keynesianism in an Age of Civil Rights: Jim Crow Monetary Policy and the Struggle for Guaranteed Jobs, 1956-1979.” A UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Stein is the author of the forthcoming book Fearing Inflation, Inflating Fears: The Civil Rights Struggle for Full Employment and the Rise of the Carceral State, 1929-1986.

Lisa Jacobson, "A Taste of Success: Whiskey Drinking, Masculine Identities, and the Sensory Imagination in the Postwar US"
2019-11-22 15:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Join the Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster for a paper workshop on Lisa Jacobson‘s “A Taste of Success: Whiskey Drinking, Masculine Identities, and the Sensory Imagination in the Postwar US.” The event will take place in HSSB 4020 on November 22 at 3:00. To obtain the paper in advance, email Jarett Henderson at jhenderson@history.ucsb.edu.
Please note that this event was originally scheduled for an earlier date, so you may have seen posters with an incorrect date and time.

Queen Victoria and the Making of the Modern Monarchy
2019-12-07 14:00 - 15:30 | Karpeles Manuscript Library, 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
In this talk, Dr. Erika Rappaport, Professor and Chair of the Department of History at UCSB and historian of British consumer culture, explores how Queen Victoria became the first media monarch. Queen Victoria was unmatched in bringing the monarchy into the modern age, becoming the subject of intense media attention, criticism and adoration. In her reign we can see the first hints of what has become the modern role of the monarchy as cultural icon and celebrity.
Erika Rappaport is Professor of History and Department Chair at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World (Princeton 2017); Shopping For Pleasure: Women and the Making of London’s West End (Princeton 2000); and is co-editor of Consuming Behaviours: Identity, Politics and Pleasure in Twentieth Century Britain (Bloomsbury 2015), and is the editor of the forthcoming A Cultural History of Shopping in the Age of Empire (Bloomsbury 2020).
Original Manuscripts related to British Royalty will be on display.

Susan Lederer, "'Send My Body to the Medical College': Alternative Afterlives in Turn of the Century America"
2020-01-09 17:30 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Dr. Susan Lederer, Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Madison will be giving a talk on Thursday, January 9 at 5:30 pm entitled “‘Send My Body to the Medical College’: Alternative Afterlives in Turn of the Century America.”
In 1876 American and English newspapers reported the extraordinary will made by an American woman living in London. Inspired by Bentham’s 1832 bequest of his body, Susan Fletcher Smith approached the Royal College of Surgeons with the proposal that, upon her death, her body be “completely dissected in the most thorough manner known to science.” Moreover, she stipulated that preference be given to persons of the female sex who wished to inspect the body in the various stages of dissection. The President of the College agreed to accept her proposal. Smith’s donation was one of some 450 reported in the press in the years between 1870 and 1940. This talk explores how donating one’s remains to a medical institution was transformed in this period from a bizarre and macabre eccentricity into an exemplar of enlightened corporeal philanthropy.
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History Department Open House, sponsored by HIST Club/Phi Alpha Theta
2020-01-22 16:00 - 17:30 | 4041 HSSB, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The HIST Club of enthusiastic history majors and minors would like to invite you all to an Open House on Wed., Jan. 22, 4-5:30. That day is the day of our first faculty meeting so we are hoping you can stick around to grab some refreshments and chat with your students. They are super eager to meet you and other interested students and hope you can attend. Just as an FYI — we have some 20-25 active members and more than 50 members registered on campus. We are also in the process of preparing a student lounge! Partners and children are welcome. Please contact Miroslava Chavez-Garcia (mchavezgarcia@history.ucsb.edu) for more information.
When: Wed., Jan 22, 4-5:30 pm
Where: 4081 HSSB (across from 4020 HSSB)
Why: To promote and share our love of history!

Andrew Hartman, "Rethinking Karl Marx: American Liberalism from the New Deal to the Cold War"
2020-01-24 13:00 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy‘s Winter Quarter speaker series, Andrew Hartman (History, Illinois State University) will present “Rethinking Karl Marx: American Liberalism from the New Deal to the Cold War.” Hartman is the author of Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School (2008) and the widely reviewed A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars (2015). Professor Hartman is currently at work on a third book, Karl Marx in America, to be published by the University of Chicago Press. The winner of two Fulbright Awards, Hartman was the founding President of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History. He publishes in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Salon, The Washington Post, Jacobin, Baffler, and In These Times, as well as academic journals. Professor Hartman co-hosts a podcast dedicated to intellectual history, “Trotsky and the Wild Orchids.”
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Conversation with Jon Meacham
2020-01-30 15:00 - 16:30 | HSSB 4080, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
In addition to the public lecture at the Granada Theater, Jon Meacham will hold a small group discussion, open to all–faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates. Students especially encouraged to attend. A Pulitzer Prize winner, Meacham has written on Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, George W. H. Bush, and more recently, music as a window into American history.

Gender Studies Paper Workshop: Jarett Henderson's "The 'Turton Job' and the Sexual Politics of the Durham Administration in Britain and British North America"
2020-01-30 15:30 | HSSB 4065, 4065 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Join the Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster for a paper workshop on Jarett Henderson‘s “The ‘Turton Job’ and the Sexual Politics of the Durham Administration in Britain and British North America.” The event will take place in HSSB 4065 on Thursday, January 30 at 3:30. To obtain the paper in advance, email Jarett Henderson at jhenderson@history.ucsb.edu.

lecture by Jon Meacham, "America Then and Now"
2020-01-30 19:30 - 21:00 | Granada Theater, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101, United States
Jon Meacham will be speaking on “American Then and Now: What History Tells Us About the Future” at the Granada Theater as part of Arts and Lectures “History Matters” series
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Documentary film screening: "McCarthy"
2020-02-03 07:00 - 21:00 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
McCarthy 2Seventy years ago this February, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin launched his destructive anticommunist rampage. Addressing the Women’s Republican Club in Wheeling, WVA, McCarthy charged that 205—or was it 57?—known communists were working for the U.S. State Department, enjoying the protection of an indifferent or even a disloyal Truman administration. McCarthy went on to even wilder charges, intensifying an anticommunist Red Scare that had begun shortly after the end of World War II. For a few years in the early 1950s, the senator enjoyed remarkable support from his fellow Republicans. While many of them privately bemoaned his crudeness, they relished the damage he was inflicting on their liberal and Democratic foes. Only after McCarthy turned his attacks on other Republicans did the GOP start mobilizing against him. This riveting PBS documentary film, written, produced, and directed by Sharon Grimberg, chronicles the demagogue’s extraordinary rise and fall. After the screening, Prof. Salim Yaqub of the UCSB Department of History will lead an audience discussion.

History Scholar-Activism: Living Our Work
2020-02-03 16:00 - 17:30
Join us as we talk about how we—as historians and historians in training—approach our work as “scholar-activists” within the context of the academy. While not all of us identify as “scholar-activists,” we work with social justice and equity in mind.
Themes
Methodology: What does that look like? How do we describe it and/or think about it?
Historiography: What is it? How is it relevant to my work? And, where do I fit in?
Theory: What does theory look like in history? Can I talk about theory? Where and how can I learn more? Will my colleagues accept me?
Participants
Utathya Chattopadhyaya
Mhoze Chikowero
Lisa Jacobson
Kate McDonald
Light refreshments will be provided.
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Jennifer Burns, "The Last Conservative: The Life of Milton Friedman"
2020-02-07 13:00 - 15:00 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy‘s Winter Quarter speaker series, Jennifer Burns (History, Stanford University) will present “The Last Conservative: The Life of Milton Friedman.” Professor Burns is the author of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (2009), and is now at work on a biography of economist Milton Friedman. She publishes articles and interventions on conservatism, libertarianism, and liberalism in academic journals as well as The New York Times, Dissent, and The New Republic. Professor Burns is a co-founder of the Bay Area Consortium for the History of Ideas in America.
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Anna Rudolph, "Queen Radegund and the Monarchy in Medieval Europe"
2020-02-08 14:00 - 15:30 | Karpeles Manuscript Library, 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Come hear Anna Rudolph‘s presentation on Queen Radegund (520AD – 587AD) – a royal sainted lady of Thuringia. Radegund was a princess and a war captive who became the unwilling queen of the Frankish Kingdom and one of the most beloved Saints of France. Radegund, an extreme ascetic, was widely believed to have the gift of healing. Venerated for centuries, she has given us insights into the changing conventions of elite and royal women’s spirituality. Radegund is the patron saint of many churches in France and England, with one priory dedicated to her memory
being converted into the world-renowned Jesus College, near Cambridge.

Join us for an afternoon of miracles, warfare and intrigue as we illuminate the life of one of history’s most remarkable women.
Original Medieval manuscripts will be on display.
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