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Why History Matters panel analyzes presidential election with with eye toward the past
After a fractious day of election media coverage, a packed crowd gathered at the UCLA Faculty Center Thursday night to dissect the presidential race through the lens of the past […]
Gift establishes endowed chair in history
Nickoll Family Chair to be awarded to renowned history scholar and UCLA faculty member Brenda StevensonBen NickollHistory alumnus Ben Nickoll ’86 was brought up in a family in which helping […]
Ben Madley
Congratulations to Ben Madley for receiving the inaugural Heyday Books History Award. Heyday Books, founded in 1974, in Berkeley, is a statewide publisher which celebrates and explores California’s history, environment, […]
Sarah Stein interviewed by New Books network
Sarah Abrevaya Stein’s rich new book, Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century (University of Chicago Press, 2016) takes readers on a global journey in search of late […]
Caroline Ford interviewed by New Books network
Caroline Ford’s Natural Interests: The Contest over Environment in Modern France (Harvard University Press, 2016) explores the roots of French environmental consciousness in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Far from being a […]
William Summerhill interviewed on National Public Radio’s Marketplace, and the BBC
William Summerhill was asked about Brazil’s new economic privatization proposals for NPR’s Marketplace. http://www.marketplace.org/2016/09/14/world/brazil-says-privatization-will-grow-stagnant-economy . In August he was interviewed about the presidential impeachment in Brazil on BBC World Service’s […]
Kelly Lytle Hernandez leads digital mapping project on the costs of incarceration in LA County
The project “Million Dollar Hoods” is nearing completion and, for the next month, KCRW is running a series largely based on the project.
Elisabeth Schoepflin
Congratulations to graduate student Elisabeth Schoepflin who has been named a 2016 U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellow.
Brenda Stevenson interviewed on KCRW on Georgetown University’s slave past
Brenda Stevenson was a guest on KCRW on the subject of Georgetown University and it’s history with the slave trade.
