Ever since Henry Dana wrote about Santa Barbara in Two Years Before the Mast, authors have been drawn to Santa Barbara. The distinguished writers on our panel will discuss the city's rich literary tradition over the past 150 years. The event will be held from 5:30-7:00 p.m. in the Founder's Room at the Granada Theater, […]
The UCSB History Associates and the Department of History will hold the annual awards ceremony and reception on Wednesday, June 4, starting at 4:00 p.m. The event will be held in the McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020).
Graduating History Majors and their families are cordially invited to attend a reception on commencement Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. in HSSB 4020. The commencement ceremony will begin at 1 p.m., on the Faculty Club Green. jwil 24.v.08
Summer Session A runs from June 23 to August 1.Summer Session B runs from August 4 to September 12. For History courses taught during Sessions A and B, see our summer 2008 course schedule. For more information visit UCSB Summer Sessions.
All new History Department Teaching Assistants must attend both morning and afternoon sessions of the Initial Training Meeting. All returning History TAs must attend the afternoon session. For more information contact History Lead TAs Jessica Elliott and Rachel Winslow. jwil 04.viii.2008
Fall instruction begins on Thursday, September 25, 2008.Note that some History syllabi are available for downloading from the History website Courses page prior to the start of the quarter. Also, each instructor's web page (click on their name to get there) has a section "announcements" in the left-hand column. Some instructors post information about waiting […]
Lichtenstein is the author of Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (1995). His current research examines the interplay of the civil rights and labor movements in Florida during the 1940s. hm 9/22
Fletcher, a longtime labor and international activist, is executive editor of Black Commentator and founder of the Center for Labor Renewal. Gapasin is a Central Labor Council President and former professor of Industrial Relations and Chicana/o Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Fletcher is also the author of The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation […]
Jason Kelly is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University of Indiana. Since its existence first became public knowledge in the 1760s, politicians, critics, and historians alike have represented the so-called Monks of Medmenham Abbey in a variety of ways. The 4th Earl of Sandwich, Francis Dashwood, and John Wilkes, all early members of […]
This lecture examines evidence from an ancient Roman infant cemetery recently discovered at Lugnano in Teverina (Umbria). The cemetery contained forty-eight bodies. DNA testing techniques recently developed by Robert Sallares of the University of Manchester have revealed that the bodies contain evidence of an epidemic of plasmodium falciparum malaria. The cemetery also offers evidence of […]