• History Associates Talk: Giulianna Perrone | Back into the Days of Slavery: Abolition and the Free Black Family

    East Side Library, Montecito Street East Side Library, 1102 E Montecito Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    SUNDAY MARCH 6, 2022 at 2:00 PM PST East Side Library 1102 E Montecito Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This event will be presented in-person and live-streamed via zoom. Click here to register and receive the zoom link. You do not need to register if attending in-person.

  • History Associates Talk : Graduate Student, Gokh Amin Al Shaif on Genealogies of Belonging: Lessons from an Oceanic Yemen

    East Side Library, Montecito Street East Side Library, 1102 E Montecito Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

      When: SUNDAY APRIL 3, 2022, 2:00 PM PST Where : In person and on Zoom Address: East Side Library 1102 E Montecito Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103 Register to receive the zoom link: https://bit.ly/HAtalkapril3 You can find more details here: History Associates April 3 Event Flier_final    

  • 2022 Van Gelderen Lecture | Nicole de Silva: Consumer Diplomats U.S. Women Work for Peace Through the Pocketbook, 1919-1939

    University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    This talk sponsored by History Associates. follows U.S. women and their allies around the globe who worked to organize household consumers into movements that they believed could improve chances for international peace and security. These “consumer diplomats” used their buying practices to portray themselves as world citizens capable of both influencing and upholding a conception […]

  • History Associates: “Prioritizing the Preservation of Black Legacies in Santa Barbara”

    East Side Library, Montecito Street East Side Library, 1102 E Montecito Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    This presentation will walk through Santa Barbara’s recently completed African American Historic Context Statement on how the built history of a community plays a role in helping uplift African-American and Black people today. This is a unique collaboration of social justice leaders and historic preservation specialists in Santa Barbara who worked to compile Santa Barbara’s […]

  • History Associates Talk | States of Dis/armament | Mhoze Chikowero

    HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    States of Dis/armament: Reading Statemaking in Africa’s Recent History When: WEDNESDAY, NOV 9, 2022 at 4:00 PM Where: Miller McCune Conference Room, HSSB, UC Santa Barbara Free and open to the public. Please RSVP to historyassociates@ia.ucsb.edu History Associates Members can request a complimentary parking permit for this event! What is a state? What is statemaking? What […]

  • History Associates Events

    History Associates Talk : Alfredo Gonzalez | “An American Promise: 20th Century US Military Naturalization.”

    Vista Del Monte, 3775 Modoc Rd, Santa Barbara 3775 Modoc Rd., Santa Barbara

    Assistant Professor of Political Science at UCSB, Alfredo Gonzalez will speak on "An American Promise: 20th Century US Military Naturalization." Despite widespread recognition that modern social welfare programs stem from the protections pledged to war veterans, commitments from Congress to naturalize immigrant service members and veterans are absent in debates on the military social safety […]

  • History Associates Book Club: “Lies my Teacher Told Me”

    Mosher Alumni House Alumni Association / UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

    The History Associates and the History Department are launching a new special program “A Book in Common.” The first session is taking place on Thursday 1/29 at the Mosher Alumni House. This is a Book Club for history faculty, staff, students, History Associates, and history-minded community members. We'll discuss Lies My Teacher Told Me (graphic […]

  • UCSB History Associates presents A Banned Book in Common (Apr 9, 14, 19, 2026)

    Santa Barbara Public Library, Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara. University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States +2 more

    Next two books in the series of A Banned Book in Common are A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943), by Betty Smith, and The Hate U Give (2017), by Angie Thomas A unique event organized by UCSB's History Associates, we discuss books that have been targets of book banners. Click here to RSVP and to […]

  • UCSB History Associates presents A Banned Book in Common (Apr 9, 14, 19, 2026)

    Santa Barbara Public Library, Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara. University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States +2 more

    Next two books in the series of A Banned Book in Common are A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943), by Betty Smith, and The Hate U Give (2017), by Angie Thomas A unique event organized by UCSB's History Associates, we discuss books that have been targets of book banners. Click here to RSVP and to […]

  • UCSB History Associates presents A Banned Book in Common (Apr 9, 14, 19, 2026)

    Santa Barbara Public Library, Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara. University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States +2 more

    Next two books in the series of A Banned Book in Common are A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943), by Betty Smith, and The Hate U Give (2017), by Angie Thomas A unique event organized by UCSB's History Associates, we discuss books that have been targets of book banners. Click here to RSVP and to […]