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 […]

Professor Mateo Jarquin of Chapman University will be giving a talk titled "Managua 1979: International and Transnational Origins of the Cold War’s Last Great Revolution."   After the Cuban Revolution, armed movements across Latin America embraced violent struggle as a path to social transformation. Yet only one managed to seize power: Nicaragua’s Frente Sandinista de […]