William Deringer – “Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age, 1688-1776″
William Deringer (MIT) “Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age, 1688-1776"
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Bunche Social Sciences Book Fair
Free Books for Students! Stop by to browse an interdepartmental book collection, and go home with new reading material! Books from Chicano/a Studies, Economics, Geography, History, and Political Science departments will be […]
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History Writing Center Workshop
Join professor Benjamin Madley for helpful tips and feedback in this History Writing Center workshop.
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León García Garagarza – “The Aztec Healer, the Puppet King and the Mexican Inquisition: Noble Ailments and Colonial Imposition in Early New Spain”
In 1539 the Apostolic Inquisition of Mexico accused Martin Ocelotl of idolatry, blasphemy, and other crimes against the Church. Martin Ocelotl was a traditional ritual specialist from the area of […]
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A Conversation with Rev. James Lawson: Nonviolence and Social Movements
Rev. James Lawson is a leading theorist and practitioner of nonviolent social action. During the 1960s he advised Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and lead civil rights campaigns in Nashville […]
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Courtenay Raia-“William in Wonderland: Crookes’s Scientific Spiritualism and the Physics of the Impossible”
Courtenay Raia (Colson School of Music) “William in Wonderland: Crookes’s Scientific Spiritualism and the Physics of the Impossible”
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Karl Jacoby – “The Color Line and the Borderline: Locating William Ellis, the Texas Slave who Became a Mexican Millionaire, in the Archives and in Family History”
To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican banker and broker, with an apartment on Central Park West and an office on Wall Street. He began […]
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Historians and Others (Try To) Make Sense of the 2016 Election
Parking available for $12 in Structure 2 Inquiries: CollegeEvents@support.ucla.edu or (310) 825-4038
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Nancy Toff On History Publishing
Nancy Toff, Vice President and Executive Editor (History) of Oxford University Press, will talk with graduate students and faculty about academic and general history publishing. Toff, who oversees the popular […]
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