As once-thriving U.S. manufacturing sectors contract, the idea that unemployed citizens will now find work in nano-scale manufacturing draws commitments of educational resources across the country. So-called nanotechnician curricula proliferate at two-year institutions and their enrollments climb steadily. Yet industrial forecasters and even some instructors see few jobs of this kind on the horizon. This […]

To date, more than 280,000 women have served in Iraq, Afghanistan and surrounding regions. Their jobs include working as convoy gunners, searching homes, and conducting IED sweeps. On February 21, Laura Browder will discuss her book and exhibit (with photographs by Sascha Pflaeging) When Janey Comes Marching Home, which gives a presence and a voice […]

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22HSSB 4020 9:00-10:00 AM--Meet-and-Greet Breakfast 9:45-10:00 AM--Welcome and Introduction Salim Yaqub and Ken Hough Session 1 10:00-11:45 Eric Fenrich, UCSB, Department of History "Nine Black Kids and a Silver Ball: Little Rock, Sputnik, and the American International Image" Comment: Cody Stephens, UCSB, Department of History Audience Q & A Henry Maar, UCSB, Department […]

Before the advent of aviation, industrializing nations sought to produce increasingly accurate surveys of territorial possessions, drawing on new technologies and sciences to interpret and reproduce sights and images. Kaplan will argue that most analysis of the imagery of air power?reconnaissance analog and digital photography?situates this kind of visual data as universalized panopticism; total, rational, […]

“As an African American educator, one of my main concerns is that we all need tobe liberated from schooling that perpetuates America’s myths,” King has written. “One such myth that constrains our freedom of thought and our ability to pursue social justice concerns our national identity.” Her lecture will examine ways to break from these […]

This talk will focus on Prof. Taylor's new research project on African Americans during the War of 1812 and their dispersal throughout the Anglo-Atlantic world, including Canada's maritimes, the Caribbean, and Great Britain. Taylor is much admired by colonial and Early National period US historians, and familiar to many of our grad students who have […]

The chance discovery of a unique wool merchant's account book in the muniment room of Westminster Abbey gives us a detailed picture of the trading networks and business contacts of a wool monger who lived at Moreton-in-Marsh on the edge of the Cotswold Hills. Through him we gain an insight into a society of sheep […]

The UCSB History Associates cordially invite you to attend a panel discussion of Pope Benedict XVI's surprise decision to retire at the end of this month. The event will be held at the University Club, 1332 Santa Barbara St., on March 5 at 7:30 p.m. See flyer at left for details. Please note the rsvp […]

Whenever we speak of the Silk Road, the mind’s eye conjures up a single merchant traveling on a camel laden with goods, most likely on his way to Rome. The discovery of multiple artifacts and excavated documents in northwest China allows us to revise this image. In fact, few people moving along the Silk Road […]

The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization had appeared to be the natural outcome of this unstoppable process. But today, with global markets roiling and increasingly reliant on state intervention to stay afloat, it has become clear that markets […]