Department Reception for Graduating Seniors
Dear History Majors and their Families, As you make your plans for graduation day, I would like to extend to you a personal invitation to join the History faculty at […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]