The documentary film "Massacre at Nueva Linda" documents the 2004 massacre of a community protesting in Guatemala. Over two hundred families were violently evicted by over 1,000 police and armed military reserves. The film investigate the massacre and the ways in which counterinsurgency methods developed during the civil war of the 1970s and 1980s have […]

Professor Singh teaches history at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the author of Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy; When This Time is Named: Jack O'Dell and the Black Freedom Movement, and The Afterlife of Fascism: A Post-World War II History (work in progress). Singh's talk is sponsored by the […]

UCSB History Associates Presents a special event for All-Gaucho Reunion Weekend. Professor Gabriela Soto Laveaga will talk about the wild Mexican yam called barbasco that transformed modern pharmaceuticals, and tell the story of the peasant farmers who learned how to deal with the world's biggest drug companies. In the 1940s, rheumatoid arthritis afflicted more Americans […]