September 2015
Beyond the New Deal Order Conference
Conference Description: When Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle edited The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order in 1989, they made the concept of a political and social “order” central to an interpretative framework that reperiodized U.S. history, from the election of Franklin Roosevelt, through Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and on to the Ronald Reagan’s victory in 1980. The New Deal was not just a presidential moment, but a far larger construction – a combination of ideas, policies, institutions,…
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Current Immigration Crises in Historical Perspective
The History Department will be hosting a panel for this year’s annual Parents’ and Family Weekend titled “Current Immigration Crises in Historical Perspective.” The panelists will be Adam Sabra, Salim Yaqub, Harold Marcuse, and Verónica Castillo-Muñoz. See below for additional information.
Find out more »October 2017
Book Launch: Kate McDonald’s Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan
Come Celebrate the publication of Kate McDonald’s, Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan (University of California Press, 2017) Featuring: Ken Ruoff Professor of History, Director / Center for Japanese Studies, Portland State University Sabine Fruhstuck Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies, Director/ East Asia Center, UCSB Kate McDonald Professor of History, UCSB
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