Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

“The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks in Historical Perspective”
2014-03-05 00:00 (America/Denver)
U.S. Ambassador Dennis Ross serves as Counselor, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Ghaith al-Omari is Executive Director, American Task Force on Palestine.
The event is free and open to the public.
Ambassador Ross, the Washington Institute’s Ziegler Distinguished fellow and counselor from 2001-2009, returned as its Counselor in December 2011 after serving two years as special assistant to President Obama as well as National Security Council senior director for the Central Region, and a year as special advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, focusing on Iran.
For more than twelve years, Ambassador Ross played a leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process and dealing directly with the parties in negotiations. A highly skilled diplomat, Ambassador Ross was U.S. point man on the peace process in both the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. He was instrumental in assisting Israelis and Palestinians to reach the 1995 Interim Agreement; he also successfully brokered the 1997 Hebron Accord, facilitated the 1994 Israel-Jordan peace treaty, and intensively worked to bring Israel and Syria together.
A scholar and diplomat with more than two decades of experience in Soviet and Middle East policy, Ambassador Ross worked closely with Secretaries of State James Baker, Warren Christopher, and Madeleine Albright. Prior to his service as special Middle East coordinator under President Clinton, Ambassador Ross served as director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff in the first Bush administration. In that capacity, he played a prominent role in U.S. policy toward the former Soviet Union, the unification of Germany and its integration into NATO, arms control negotiations, and the 1991 Gulf War coalition.
During the Reagan administration, he served as director of Near East and South Asian affairs on the National Security Council staff and deputy director of the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment. Ambassador Ross was awarded the Presidential Medal for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service by President Clinton, and Secretaries Baker and Albright presented him with the State Department’s highest award.
The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Barbara, a program
of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, is cosponsored by UCSB Arts and Lectures, Department of Religious Studies,
Congregation B’nai B’rith, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara, and Santa Barbara Hillel.
hm 1/6/14

The Russians are Coming (1966)
2014-03-05 00:00
The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will be showing the classic 1966 film, “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming.” Directed by Norman Jewison and starring Car Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Jonathan Winters, and Alan Arkin, the film is a hilarious spoof on the U.S.-Soviet confrontation. It stands as a relatively early (and still gentle) challenge to the Cold War consensus in U.S. popular culture.
The film is free and open to the public. Delicious refreshments, also free of charge, will be served. Don’t miss this exciting event!
hm 3/1/14

Marxism and Classics
2014-03-07 00:00
Sponsored by the Department of Classics.
moved from News by hm 12/1/13

Public Lecture and Graduate Student Lunchtime Program; Dr. Ned Kaufman
2014-03-13 00:00
Dr. Ned Kaufman will do a lunchtime talk about his current research around historic conservation, social justice, intangible resources, sustainability and the economics of heritage. He will also discuss his career inside and outside of academia. As more Ph.D.’s are seeking alternative careers, by choice and by necessity, Dr. Kaufman’s academic and non-academic career offers an example of a path of intellectually challenging and worthwhile work as a consultant, a public historian and a professor. A light lunch will be served at the session.
Dr. Ned Kaufman is principal of Kaufman Heritage Conservation and Adjunct Professor of Historic Preservation at Pratt Institute. Previously, Dr. Kaufman served as director of historic preservation at the Municipal Art Society of New York, where he led campaigns to protect the African Burial Ground, Aubudon Ballroom, Ellis and Governors Islands, and other historic sites. He also founded and co-directed Place Matters as well as the international research and training program at Rafael Viñoly Architects. His books include Place, Race, and Story: Essays in the Past and Future of Historic Preservation (2009) and Pressures and Distortions: City Dwellers as Builders and Critics (2011), as well as histories of Sagamore Hill and Springfield Armory National Historic Sites. He has advised the National Trust on sustainability policy and is a U.S. voting member on the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Intangible Heritage.
Program Co-Sponsors
UCSB Grad Division Grant
UCSB Public History Graduate Student Association
UCSB AD&A Museum
Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation
UCSB History Department
UCSB Art History and Architecture Department
UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC)

Extraordinary Prizes in Ordinary Places: How Preserving Everyday Things Can Save People and the Planet
2014-03-13 00:00
Evening Public Lecture at The Presidio at the Santa Barbara Trust forHistoric Preservation, 7pm. Dr. Ned Kaufman’s lecture is entitled
“Extraordinary Prizes in Ordinary Places: How Preserving Everyday Things
Can Save People and the Planet.” He will make a presentation around the
general themes of rethinking the economics of heritage and historic
preservation as a tool for achieving social justice, and how the field is
forging new interdisciplinary alliances with public history, folklore,
community planning and tourism promotion in places like Santa Barbara. Book
signing and reception to follow.
Dr. Ned Kaufman is principal of Kaufman Heritage Conservation and Adjunct
Professor of Historic Preservation at Pratt Institute. Previously, Dr.
Kaufman served as director of historic preservation at the Municipal Art
Society of New York, where he led campaigns to protect the African Burial
Ground, Aubudon Ballroom, Ellis and Governors Islands, and other historic
sites. He also founded and co-directed Place Matters as well as the
international research and training program at Rafael Viñoly Architects.
His books include Place, Race, and Story: Essays in the Past and Future of
Historic Preservation (2009) and Pressures and Distortions: City Dwellers
as Builders and Critics (2011), as well as histories of Sagamore Hill and
Springfield Armory National Historic Sites. He has advised the National
Trust on sustainability policy and is a U.S. voting member on the ICOMOS
International Scientific Committee on Intangible Heritage.

End of Winter 2014 instruction
2014-03-14 00:00
Classes end Friday March 14.
Final Exam Schedule
hm 1/4/13, 10/3/14

Japan Under Empire: A Guided Tour
2014-03-19 00:00
In 1912, Japanese government railways embarked on a mission to remake how Europeans and Americans thought about Japan—through tourism. In this talk, historian Kate McDonald will explore how Japanese tourist organizations fought to transform the image of Japan from a looming threat to European and American interests in East Asia into a peaceful, industrial nation with a sophisticated culture and a progressive empire. World War II brought an abrupt end to this mission, but the Japanese did eventually succeed—with the support of the U.S. Occupation.
Join us on a journey through Japan as Professor McDonald discusses the turbulent history of tourist politics, and what this means for how we travel today. A wine-and-cheese reception will precede the talk.
About the Speaker
Prof. Kate McDonald teaches modern Japanese History at UCSB. Her research focuses on the cultural and technological history of mobility, especially the way transportation technologies and networks affect the way we see our world. Her current project examines how the Japanese transportation network shaped what travelers saw and learned about the Japanese empire in the 1910s-1930s.

Spring classes begin
2014-03-31 00:00
Instruction begins on Monday March 31.
Monday, May 26: Memorial Day holiday
Friday, June 6: Last day of instruction.
June 7-13: Final exams.
final Exam Schedule
hm 1/4/13, 10/3/13

Sasha Abramsky Speaks on Poverty in American
2014-04-03 00:00
Sasha Abramsky, author of The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives (2013) and contributor to The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, and other publications. Co-sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Value of Care Series.
News article featured on The Current
AJ 3/24/14

Graduate Student Conference: Innovation in Borderlands Regions
2014-04-06 00:00
BORDERLANDS, broadly defined, are spaces where disparate ethnicities, cultures, religions, political systems, or linguistic traditions come into close contact and require both individuals and societies to adapt culturally, politically, economically, or technologically to encounters with other ways of life. The Ancient Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference will showcase new research on the ways that interactions in borderlands inspire innovation and adaptation from a range of geographic and chronological contexts.
Friday, April 4, 4:00 – 6:00 pm
Opening Remarks
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Dr. Samuel Truett, Professor of History at the University of New Mexico
Saturday, April 5, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Panel 1: State-Society Conflicts over Identification and Migration
Panel 2: Interchange and Imagination in Late Antiquity
Panel 3: Reifying Life through the Celebration of Death
Panel 4: Crafting Identity through Object and Image
Sunday, April 6, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Panel 5: Communal Adjustment to Shifting Boundaries
Closing Comments
All events held in McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6th Floor)
Sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, the Ancient Borderlands MRG, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Classics, the Department of History, the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, the Department of Religious Studies, the Department of Sociology, and the Late Antique MRG.
jwil 28.iii.2014

Dean Baker on "The Importance of Full Employment and the Routes for Getting There."
2014-04-08 00:00
Dean Baker, “The Importance of Full Employment and the Routes for Getting There.” Baker is co-Founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and author of several books on American political economy, including Getting Back to Full Employment (with Jared Bernstein), and The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive (2011), and frequent contributor to The Guardian, The Huffington Post, and MSNBC.
AJ 3/24/14

Reason, Rationality, and Rules: A Short History of the Way We Think Now
2014-04-10 00:00
This talk will be held at Alumni Hall, Mosher Alumni House, 2nd floor on Thursday April 10 at 4:00 p.m.
About the Speaker
Lorraine Daston is Executive Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She has published on a wide range of topics in the history of science, including the history of probability and statistics, wonders in early modern science, the emergence of the scientific fact, scientific models, objects of scientific inquiry, the moral authority of nature, and the history of scientific objectivity. She has taught at Harvard, Princeton, Brandeis, and Göttingen Universities, as well as at the University of Chicago, where she is Visiting Professor of Social Thought and History. She has also held visiting positions in Paris and Vienna and given the Isaiah Berlin Lectures at the University of Oxford (1999), the Tanner Lectures at Harvard University (2002), the West Lectures at Stanford University (2005), and the Humanitas Lecture at the University of Oxford (2013). She has twice won the Pfizer Prize of the History of Science Society and was awarded the Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society and the Schelling Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 2012. Dr. Daston is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Corresponding Member of the British Academy, as well as a Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Leopoldina. Dr. Daston was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2010. She is currently completing a book on moral and natural orders. Histories of Scientific Observation, co-edited with Elizabeth Lunbeck, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2011.

Shifting Centers of Maritime Activity in the Eastern Mediterranean: A View from Burgaz or "Old Knidos"
2014-04-14 00:00
Excavation at the settlement of Burgaz on Turkey’s Datça peninsula—at the junction of the Aegean and Mediterranean seas—has revealed uninterrupted occupation from the Archaic period through Late Antiquity. With its proximity to fertile land and the sea, Burgaz is generally considered to be the early settlement of the Knidians, long famed for their nude cult statue of the goddess Aphrodite. While settlement at “New Knidos” on the tip of the peninsula flourishes from the late fourth century BCE, earlier remains at the site are scarce. Seeking information about the earlier settlement’s economic success and subsequent demise, our project undertakes comprehensive survey and excavation in the four harbors of Burgaz in tandem with a broader project of underwater cultural heritage advocacy in Turkey and beyond.
The project investigates the question of “wandering cities” or “portable ports” in antiquity, collecting archaeological evidence for the curious phenomenon of settlements which—through catastrophe or gradual environmental or economic decline—shift their population core from one locale to another. By combining excavation with surface survey and geophysical prospection both on land and underwater, we seek answers about the long-term development of the town, its military and commercial ports, and its integration within a broader maritime cultural and economic landscape. Through analysis of architectural structures and cultural artifacts we ask why the early city of the Knidians flourished and how it adapted to changing patterns of regional and international connectivity in the Mediterranean world.
Elizabeth S. Greene is Associate Professor of Greek Art and Archaeology at Brock University (St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada).
Sponsored by the UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program, Borderlands Research Focus Group, and Archaeology Research Focus Group.
jwil 28.iii.2014

Paul Starr on "America's Peculiar Struggle over Health Care, Then and Now."
2014-04-18 00:00
Paul Starr, “America’s Peculiar Struggle over Health Care, Then and Now.” Starr is co-Founder of The American Prospect, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, author of Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle Over Health-Care Reform as well as the Pulitzer Prize winning: The Social Transformation of American Medicine (1982). He has served as a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton on healthcare policy. His talk will be followed by a symposium on “Healthcare Rights and Healthcare Reform from Medicare to Obamacare,” featuring reports from the front lines of state and local, official and grassroots efforts to implement the Affordable Care Act.
AJ 3/24/14

William P. Jones Reflects on the Role of Labor in the Civil Rights Movement
2014-04-24 00:00
“The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights”
William P. Jones, History Professor at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, is a leading historian of the 20th Century United States, with a particular interest in race, class and work. He has written books on African American industrial workers in the Jim Crow South and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. At UCSB, he will lecture on his newest book, The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights. This event is co-sponsored by the Great Society at Fifty, the Center for Black Studies, and the Department of Black Studies.
The March on Washington will be available courtesy of Granada Books for sale and signing after the lecture.
Added by: AJ 4/23/14

The Lost Eagle: The Untold Story of the Legionary Eagle on Rome's Most Famous Statue
2014-04-25 00:00
Sponsored by the Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.
jwil 16.viii.2013

"Aftermath"
2014-04-28 00:00
Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB present,in commemoration of Yom Hashoah and as Holocaust Remembrance Week Inaugural Event:
The Santa Barbara premiere screening of Aftermath, winner of the Yad Vashem Chairman’s Award at this year’s Jerusalem Film Festival, will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, April 28, 2014 at UCSB. The riveting story of two Polish brothers who try to come to terms with their village’s long hidden role in the Holocaust, Aftermath offers “a highly unsettling look at lingering prejudice and collective guilt” (New York Daily News). “A bombshell disguised as a thriller” (Los Angeles Times Film Critic Kenneth Turan), the film brilliantly “succeeds in bringing the past into the present” (J. Hoberman, The New York Times). This free, public event will serve to commemorate Yom HaShoah and to inaugurate Holocaust Remembrance Week at UCSB.
Franek and Jozek Kalina, sons of a poor farmer, are brothers from a small village in central Poland. Franek immigrated to the United States in the 80s and cut all ties with his family. Only when Jozek’s wife arrives in the US, without explanation, does Franek finally return to his homeland. Franek discovers that Jozek has been ostracized from the community and constantly receives threats. As Franek and Jozek struggle to rebuild their relationship, they are drawn into a gothic tale of intrigue. The two brothers eventually uncover a dark secret that forces them to confront the history of their family and their village.
Upon its release in Poland, Aftermath reignited the intense controversy that surrounded the publication, in 2000, of Neighbors by historian Jan T. Gross, a searing account of the covered-up slaughter in Jedwabne, a once half-Jewish village in northeastern Poland where hundreds of Jews, including children, were murdered in a savage pogrom in 1941. Polish nationals accused the film of being anti-Polish propaganda, as well as a distortion of a sensitive piece of Polish history, leading the film to be banned in some Polish cinemas.
The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Barbara, a program of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, is cosponsored by UCSB Arts and Lectures, Department of Religious Studies, Congregation B’nai B’rith, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara, and Santa Barbara Hillel.
hm 12/7/13; 4/15/14

The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and the Politics of Attention in Cold War America
2014-05-01 00:00
In the early 1960s, young bohemians swayed together under the swirling lights of psychedelic slide shows, surrounded by walls of amplified sound, in dance halls and art galleries from Greenwich Village to San Francisco. For a generation of historians, their tribal rites have long represented a sharp break with a vastly more conservative early cold war media culture. This talk makes a very different case. It first returns to World War II, to explore the widespread fear that mass media technologies might turn Americans into authoritarians. It then recounts how, as the fighting began, American social scientists and Bauhaus refugees collaborated to produce new multimedia environments with which to turn the senses of their fellow citizens in explicitly democratic directions. The talk shows that this turn became the basis of both two decades of cold war American propaganda and the multimedia utopianism of the 1960s. As it traces this history, the presentation reconnects the immersive, multi-mediated environments of the 1960s to those of the decades that preceded them.
Fred Turner is Associate Professor of Communication and Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Stanford University. His books include the widely acclaimed From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and The Rise of Digital Utopianism; and most recently, The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties.
This talk is co-sponsored by the Center for Information Technology and Society and the Machines, People, and Politics RFG.

“The Racial Politics of American Philanthropy.”
2014-05-01 00:00
For over a century the largest American philanthropies, from the Rockefeller Foundation to the Gates Foundation, have promised no less than to promote the well-being of all mankind. Acting on this grandiose mission, these powerful private institutions have had great influence globally and at home in areas such as education, public health, and economic development. However, the often ambiguous results and outright failures of these efforts have exposed the contradictions and conflicts inherent in a program of universal well being, as well as the boundaries of philanthropists’ putatively limitless circle of care. At home, these limits are most apparent in the racial politics of American philanthropy. Since the late eighteenth century, African Americans and the American “race problem” have been at the very center of American philanthropy’s domestic agenda. Yet white American philanthropy’s record in promoting black people’s well-being has been decidedly mixed. In her talk, Karen Ferguson will interrogate the nature of white philanthropists’ care when it comes to addressing the racial inequality in the United States. Who of what, exactly have they cared about?
Sponsored by the Critical Issues in American series “The Great Society at Fifty: Democracy in America, 1964/2014,” the IHC sries The Value of Care and the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment.
Added by: AJ 4/23/14

“Beyond the Global Great Society: Critical Perspectives on the Decade of Development as Lessons for Today.”
2014-05-02 00:00
On Friday, May 2, at 1 p.m. a symposium composed of leading scholars explores the historical connections between the domestic “war” against poverty and the 20th-century development project as led by policymakers and foundations in the United States. It is entitled “Beyond the Global Great Society: Critical Perspectives from the Decade of Development as Lessons for Today.”
Among the participants: Amy Offner, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania; Alyosha Goldstein, Department of American Studies, University of New Mexico; Karen Ferguson, Department of History, Simon Fraser University; and from UCSB, Javiera Barandiaran, Department of Global Studies; Gabriela Soto-Lavega, Department of History; and Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Department of Sociology. More information on the symposium and its participants can be found here: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/greatsociety/news/event/183-032614
These events are sponsored by the 2013-14 Critical Issues in America Series: The Great Society at Fifty: Democracy in America 1964/2014, the Department of History, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.
Added by: AJ 4/29/14

Palestinian and African American Coalition Politics
2014-05-07 00:00
Professor Alex Lubin (Director of the Center for American Studies and Research at the American University of Beirut) on Wednesday May 7th at 4:00pm in the MCC. Professor Lubin will be discussing the parallels between Palestinian and African American coalition politics. This event is co-sponsored by The Department of Black Studies, the Black Studies Graduate Colloquium, and the Multicultural Center.

Chinese Bluegrass and Beyond: Abigail Washburn in Dialogue with Jeff Wasserstrom (UC, Irvine) and Michael Berry
2014-05-07 00:00
Abigail Washburn is a critically acclaimed singer, composer and banjo player known for her collaborations with the Sparrow Quartet, the Wu Force,and her duet performances with Bela Fleck. Her albums include Sparrow Quartet, City of Refuge, Song of the Traveling Daughter, Afterquake by Abigail Washburn and Shanghai Restoration Project and Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet. She has performed extensively in China and collaborated with many leading Chinese musicians. For more see her website: http://www.abigailwashburn.com/

The Chinese Boxer Crisis of 1900: Facts, Fictions, and Fantasies
2014-05-08 00:00
Jeffrey Wasserstrom is the author of four books on China and the editor or co-editor of several more, including most recently Chinese Characters:Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land, which contains chapters by both fellow academics and such acclaimed journalists as Peter Hessler, Leslie T. Chang, Evan Osnos, and Ian Johnson. Wasserstrom is a Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine and the Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies. He is also the Asia editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books, an Associate Fellow of the Asia Society, and a co-founder of the “China Beat” blog.

History Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium
2014-05-16 00:00
Panel I: War and International Relations8:45 Andrew Haney, The Cossack and the Elephant: The Court-Martial of John Basil Turchin and Military Necessity in the American Civil War (Majewski)
Commentator: Prof. JohnTalbott
9:15 Dominic Moretto, There Are Few Heroes Here: Understanding the Devastation of the Paraguayan War (Méndez)
Commentator: Prof. David Rock
9:45 Paul Pham, Assured Commitment: Ngo Dinh Diem’s Official State Visit, 1957 (Kalman)
Commentator: Prof. Salim Yaqub
10:15 Break
Panel II: Identities and Religious Reform
10:30 Roxanne Houman, “Sorry, Mom”: A History of Jewish Intermarriage in the United States since 1880 (Spickard)
Commentator: Prof. Laura Kalman
11:00 Emily Rebecca Megan Stierwalt, Crossing a Bridge over Troubled Water: The Effects of the Holocaust on the Children of Survivors (Marcuse)
Commentator: Prof. Paul Spickard
11:30 Chelsea Simpson, The Hidden Work of the “Bloody” Queen: Innovation and Reform during England’s Counter-Reformation (McGee)
Commentator: Prof. Hilary Bernstein
12:00 Lunch
Panel III: Empires
1:00 Katherine Thompson, Cultural Autonomy and Provincial Rebellion in the Achaemenid Empire (Lee)
Commentator: Prof. Beth DePalma Digeser
1:30 Meredith Inman, “And What a Place for a Shopman!” Liberty’s, Regent Street, and the Intersection of Empire and Commercialism, 1875 – 1927 (Rappaport)
Commentator: Prof. Kate McDonald
2:00 Rehan Bholat, “An Entertainment in Imperialism”: The Uganda Railway and the East African Interior, 1896 – 1903 (Miescher)
Commentator: Prof. Mary Hancock
edits hm 5/15/14

Historian Robert Gross Visits Campus
2014-05-19 00:00
Robert A. Gross, the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Professor of Early American History,University of Connecticut, Storrs, will present two exciting lectures at UCSB.
1) History Seminar: “Outsiders in Concord, Massachusetts: Suicides, Drop-Outs, and Marginal Men and Women of Color”;
4-5:30, Monday May 19, in HSSB 4020
NB: A chapter of Dr. Gross’s current book in progress is available as a pre-circulated paper.
Please email Ann Plane in history to obtain a copy: plane@history.ucsb.edu
2) Public Lecture: “Conversations at the Lyceum: Emerson and His Neighbors”
Tuesday the 20th of May at 3:30PM in South Hall 2635
Professor Gross is a distinguished professor of American Studies and American History, who has worked in public humanities throughout his career. He specializes in the social and cultural history of the U.S., from the colonial era through the nineteenth century. His first book on the American Revolution, _The Minutemen and Their World_ (1976), won the Bancroft Prize in American History; it was issued in a 25th anniversary edition in 2001. He has continued studies of the Revolutionary era in such works as _In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion_ (1993). For two decades he has been deeply involved in the interdisciplinary field known as the history of the book, serving on the editorial board for the multi-volume History of the Book in America published by the University of North Carolina Press and co-editing with Mary Kelley the second volume of the series, “An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840,” (2010). His other recent work examines New England writers — notably, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Emily Dickinson — in historical context. From that project has come _The Transcendentalists and Their World_, to be published by Hill & Wang.

"The Spy Who Came in From the Cold"
2014-05-29 00:00
Because of the events in Isla Vista last weekend, this event has been rescheduled to Fall quarter.
The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will be showing the 1965 film “The Spy Who Came In From the Cold,” based on the classic novel of the same name by John Le Carre. The movie depicts a British agent sent on a secret mission into East Germany, only to find himself a pawn in a wholly different operation. The film stars Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, and Oskar Werner.
The screening is free and open to the public. Delicious refreshments will be served. Please join us for this exciting end-of-year event!
hm 5/28/14

Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind
2014-06-04 00:00
Come join the Black Studies Graduate Colloquium this Wednesday at 4pm in South Hall 3711 for a talk by Dr. Osagie Obasogie (UC Hastings Professor of Law) from his new book, Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race through the Eyes of the Blind.

History Student Award Ceremony
2014-06-05 00:00
The UCSB History Associates and the Department of History will honor the the recipients of this year’s student awards. Please let Bob Ortega (bortega@hfa.ucsb.edu) know if you plan to attend this event.

History Graduation Reception 2014
2014-06-15 00:00
We are pleased to invite you to the Annual UC Santa Barbara History Department Graduation Reception. Please join the History faculty and your fellow students for a reception:
Sunday June 15, 2014
10:00am-12:00pm
HSSB 4020
Please R.S.V.P by Friday June 6, 2014
This celebration will be for all graduates of the 2013-2014 Bachelors of Arts (B.A.) programs in History, History of Public Policy and Medieval Studies and their families. This event is not a commencement ceremony, but an opportunity for faculty and graduates to celebrate their achievements together. A light breakfast will be served.
R.S.V.P. Here

End of Summer Session A Instruction
2014-08-02 00:00
see summer sessions calendar at:
